gyoza on 17 Aug 2005 18:12:50 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] disk to disk copy


Michael C. Toren wrote:

>On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 12:10:01PM -0400, gyoza@comcast.net wrote:
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>>What is a good utility for copying a hard drive to a new, larger drive?
>>I just learned about partimage, but I don't want to waste time creating
>>an image.
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>rsync with the appropriate command line arguments (for example, "-avPH")
>works very well for this, and can continue where it left off if it is
>unexpectedly interrupted.
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Ah!  What about making the drive bootable?  What I'm looking to do is to
boot with something like Knoppix, run a utility to copy a WinXP install
to another drive, then boot from the new drive.
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