----- Original Message ----- From: "magnet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 2:41 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] HDD cloning
> On Monday 10 Oct 2005 12:35, Al wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > First, many thanks to Ron for help with Chinese characters in filenames. > > > > New problem. I have a new HDD, I would like to move every thing from the > > old hdd to the new one. > > > > what is the best way to clone my BOOT drive? so that the new drive boots as > > well > > > > It's a dual boot 2005LE / WinXP > > > > TIA > > > > Al > > > open a console and type > > man dd > > dd if=<olddrivedevice> of=<newdrivedevice> > > hope this helps > magnet > > it does a direct clone > > Thanks magnet, Will the new drive be bootable? can I dd the drive im working from? ie: boot on drive then clone that same drive? Thanks Al
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