On Friday 06 May 2005 17:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Can I simply use dd to clone my failing hard disk (hda) onto another
(hdb) of the same size as follows:
# dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512
Or will norton ghost do a better job? Btw, what advantages does ghost
have over dd or
* Scott Wolchok:
On 5/6/05, Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BTW: if I were you, I'd take the time to plug one of the drives on the
secondary ide controller (if your machine has one). Copying between two
IDE devices on the same controller is awfully slow.
Don't you mean the same IDE
On Saturday 07 May 2005 09:53, Jochen Schulz wrote:
Maybe that was a misnomer on my side. In Germany we always talk about
primary and secondary controllers when we mean the two IDE
connectors on standard mainboards. I think that's also how it's printed
on the mainboards themselves and in the
* Lee Braiden:
On Saturday 07 May 2005 09:53, Jochen Schulz wrote:
Maybe that was a misnomer on my side. In Germany we always talk about
primary and secondary controllers when we mean the two IDE
connectors on standard mainboards. I think that's also how it's printed
on the mainboards
On Friday 06 May 2005 09:07 am, Alphonse Ogulla wrote:
Hi all,
Can I simply use dd to clone my failing hard disk (hda) onto another
(hdb) of the same size as follows:
# dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512
should work
Or will norton ghost do a better job? Btw, what advantages does ghost
have
Hi all,
Can I simply use dd to clone my failing hard disk (hda) onto another
(hdb) of the same size as follows:
# dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512
Or will norton ghost do a better job? Btw, what advantages does ghost
have over dd or vice versa?
Thanks,
Alphonse Ogulla
Nairobi, Kenya.
Hi Alphonse
Can I simply use dd to clone my failing hard disk (hda) onto another
(hdb) of the same size as follows:
# dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512
Or will norton ghost do a better job? Btw, what advantages does ghost
have over dd or vice versa?
If they're identical, I'm sure dd
* Alphonse Ogulla:
Can I simply use dd to clone my failing hard disk (hda) onto another
(hdb) of the same size as follows:
# dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512
If it's exactly the same size, then yes. Keep in mind that you don't
copy files but the whole hard disk - including boot sectors and
Norman Hooper wrote:
Hi Alphonse
Can I simply use dd to clone my failing hard disk (hda) onto another
(hdb) of the same size as follows:
# dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512
Or will norton ghost do a better job? Btw, what advantages does ghost
have over dd or vice versa?
If they're
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 04:07:17PM +0300, Alphonse Ogulla wrote:
Hi all,
Can I simply use dd to clone my failing hard disk (hda) onto another
(hdb) of the same size as follows:
# dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512
I'd prefer to go another route, any of which would require first
creating your
David wrote:
After a quick cp --help, I see that it, too has a --one-file-system
option, so no doubt you could use an identical strategy using cp as
with tar.
If drives /dev/hda and /dev/hdb are identical models, then
cp /dev/hda /dev/hdb works and insures an exact sector for
sector
Werner Otto wrote:
Can one use dd on a mounted partition, if so will it clone the boot
partition aswell and good to boot from?
Don't use dd on a mounted partition. Any files that change while dd is running will end up corrupted on the new drive, and likely the filesystem itself will be
On 5/6/05, Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Alphonse Ogulla:
Can I simply use dd to clone my failing hard disk (hda) onto another
(hdb) of the same size as follows:
# dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512
If it's exactly the same size, then yes. Keep in mind that you don't
copy
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