[ltp] One More Question: Drivelink

[chuck hawks]

Have you thought of Ghost?
I went from WIN95 on a 1gig to a 4gig. No loss of data.

And my Redhat7.2 from the 4gig to a 6gig. Again no loss of data.

Just do a Partion to Partion and all the data moves without the resizing of
the target drive.

Chuck

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ross Patterson" <Ross.Patterson@CatchFS.Com>
To: <linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: [ltp] One More Question: Drivelink


> On Thursday 01 August 2002 05:28 am, surferjeff@excite.com wrote:
> > Has anyone tried using drivelink to upgrade hard disks?
>
> No, but I'm searching for something like it.  I'm aware of one
alternative,
> from a company called Apricorn.  Anybody out there know of any others?
I'm
> interested in both Windows (98) and Linux (ext2/ext3) filesystem support.
>
> > It looks like it's supposed to copy the contents of your hard disk to
your
> > new hard disk.  Does it copy the boot sector and all the core Windows
stuff
> > too?
>
> Both Apricorn and Simple Tech (DriveLink's manufacturer) claim to only
> support Windows drives (FAT 16 and FAT 32).  Simple Tech claims "A wide
array
> of Operating Systems", and then lists a bunch of Windows levels and OS/2
(but
> only for FAT 16).  Their FAQ says DriveLink doesn't even support NTFS.
I'm
> betting there's no chance at all of copying my Linux ext2 filesystem :-(
>
> >         If my laptop only has room for one hard drive, how does it copy
to
> > the other drive?
>
> All these products come as a PCMCIA card with a cable that hooks up to the
> edge-connector on your new hard drive, and a bootable floppy that contains
> the copying program.  So for a brief period of time, you've got a 2-drive
> machine.  Apricorn also sells a variation on their copier that lets you
use
> the external drive in addition to the internal one, but of course it eats
up
> one of your PCMCIA sockets.
>
> --
> Ross A. Patterson
> CatchFIRE Systems, Inc.
> 5885 Trinity Parkway, Suite 220
> Centreville, VA  20120
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