----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Hunter-Duvar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 6:44 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] HDD cloning


> On October 10, 2005 09:04, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> ...
> > >>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
> ...
> > There are two problems with this - the first is that the drives must be
> > the same size/geomitry, or you will run into problems. Second, it will
> > take a long time, as it will copy empty space as well as data. Thirn,
> > coping a "live" file system is not a good idea. If you are going to use
> > this method, you should boot from a "live" CD version of Linux, or at
> > least drop to the single user mode.

old drive 60Gb
new drive 80Gb

> > A better method is to use Ghost4Linux. ftp://fedoragcc.dyndns.org/ You
> > can download the bootable CD image and burn it.
> >
> > Mikkel

will this allow the new drive to boot?

Thanks

Al


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