Re: dd on Windows
Yah; works like a charm. Honestly, though, I use cat (eg. cat /dev/source /dev/dest), -- works great, too, and you don't need to know your source's size, either -- it just ends when there's no more data. (Also the way I create/write floppy images.) As for your geometry, all will probably be fine, BUT: sometimes the NT bootloader gets pissed. (Now -there's- a shock.) It requires some finagling; see Google if it happens to you. Once done, you could either create a new partition, or, with Partition Magic, expand the current one. $.02, -Ken On 1 Aug 2002, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: Hi All, I have a question that, personally, I find somewhat amusing... I have a user that needs a bigger hard drive in his laptop. Naturally, he is running Win2K (damn sales people...). But, he needs everything moved from one drive to the other. I was thinking about taking the hard drives, plugging them into IDE adapters, connecting them to a regular PC, booting off of a Linux floppy, and dd-ing on drive onto the other. Has anyone had any luck doing this with 1) Windows and 2) drives with differeing geometries (which I don't think dd cares about)? TIA, Kenny -- Tact is just *not* saying true stuff -- Cordelia Chase Kenneth E. Lussier Sr. Systems Administrator Zuken, USA PGP KeyID CB254DD0 http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xCB254DD0 * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. * * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: dd on Windows
On 1 Aug 2002, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: from one drive to the other. I was thinking about taking the hard drives, plugging them into IDE adapters, connecting them to a regular PC, booting off of a Linux floppy, and dd-ing on drive onto the other. Has anyone had any luck doing this with 1) Windows and 2) drives with differeing geometries (which I don't think dd cares about)? I've recently been doing this with norton Ghost (as it's incredibly fast, believe it or not - it'll also do ext2 filesystems.. anyone tried that, by the way?) I recall doing this awhile back, with the only gotcha of don't try to clone the partition, clone the drive. IIRC, when I tried to clone the partition, I had to initialize the MBR seperately... But it's been awhile, so don't quote me there. ben -- The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: dd on Windows
I would think you could use dd (either from linux or cygwin utils under windows) to copy drives of the same geometry. With drives of different geometries you will most likely have more difficulty. I won't say it's not possible, but, I would guess that would be more steps involved and not having done it, I don't know what those steps would be. I would sure like to know in case I need to do it someday, however. -Andy Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: Hi All, I have a question that, personally, I find somewhat amusing... I have a user that needs a bigger hard drive in his laptop. Naturally, he is running Win2K (damn sales people...). But, he needs everything moved from one drive to the other. I was thinking about taking the hard drives, plugging them into IDE adapters, connecting them to a regular PC, booting off of a Linux floppy, and dd-ing on drive onto the other. Has anyone had any luck doing this with 1) Windows and 2) drives with differeing geometries (which I don't think dd cares about)? TIA, Kenny -- Tact is just *not* saying true stuff -- Cordelia Chase Kenneth E. Lussier Sr. Systems Administrator Zuken, USA PGP KeyID CB254DD0 http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xCB254DD0 * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. * * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
