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Re: [PLUG] Copy Window harddrive using a Linux boot floppy?
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On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Paul wrote:
> Yes, xcopy is slow because it moves files and directories instead of
> just bits and bytes. But, I believe the original post mentioned using
> either a Linux boot disk or M$ DOS.
Being the original poster, I did say something that suggested that I would
be willing to use M$ DOS. At any rate, I ended up using "dd" instead of
xcopy32 (which, at least in theory, should have copied the files and
directory structure OK). My main probably with using dd was that the new
disk was slightly smaller (something like 3.1 GB vs. 3.2 GB). However, as
it turns out the M$ Windows drive had two partitions on it so I was able
to get around this by creating two partitions on the new drive. The first
one I made slightly bigger then the old first one (by something like 0.7
MB - I guess this is now wasted space). I then made the second partition
on the new drive use the rest of the disk. Because of this, I couldn't use
dd to do the whole drive (which would have been nice). I then used "dd" to
just copy the first partition. The second partition didn't have anything
but a few documents, so I just copied them by hand.
It would have been nice though if the size of the disks were the same (or
the new one was slightly bigger) so I could of just did a dd on the whole
thing. Over the winter break here, I need to change the software on a
whole computer lab (running M$ Win98, M$ Office, OpenOffice, Netscape
Navigator, IE, and a few other Applications), and it would be great if I
could just use dd on the whole disk. Luckily, I think all but 1 PC has the
same size disk (which is about 1 GB larger then the others). As long as I
don't use that disk for my "image" I should be OK. (I know I'll end up
wasting space on the larger disk, but in this case, I have more disk space
then I need, so it isn't a big deal.
Thank you for everyones suggestions!
Ed C.
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> gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
>
> >On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 04:51:44PM -0500, Paul wrote:
> >
> >
> >>xcopy doesn't care about the size of the new drive, as long as it has
> >>sufficient space.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Perhaps this got lost in the shuffle, but the original question
> >really was "how do I do this from a Linux boot disk", *not* "what's
> >the best way to do this".
> >
> >In any case, "best" is pretty relative. Even accounting for
> >resizing, I'd be willing to wager that a good dd implementation
> >(like, say, Schily's) is both more reliable and faster than xcopy.
> >
> >
> >
>
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