måndagen den 14 november 2011 09.37.33 skrev Juergen Harms: > The hard drive containing my system partitions is dying. I can still > read it, but will have to rapidly replace it by a new (and bigger) drive.
Try to avoid writing to it as temporary faults may screw files up.... > Does somebody have experience with - rather re-installing Mga and > Windows-7 partition - simply copying the corresponding file-system > (piped tar) and then just recreating the boot sector - would be much > quicker, in particular for the windows partition? Any particular > precautions to take? Once i simply booted a live system, used dd to copy from old to bigger larger drive, then gparted to extend (not move) windows partition, and i think i just moved and extended home while deleting linux system and reinstalled. Using dd on the whole disk ( /dev/sdx (whthout number ) take the whole drive including boot sector and whatever. Of course you can dd to a file on a mounted large drive too, to make a backup as soon as possible and then from the file to new drive at later time.
