[ltp] Re: Upgrade HD

[Bret Comstock Waldow]

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On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:54, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:19, David Sudjiman wrote:
> > I need to copy winxp partition which is ntfs to a new HD. Any ideas?
>
> use the dd command to do a bit for bit copy of the partition to the new
> disc. It's completely irrelevent what the partition holds for this copying
> method. It'll take a while, but you can leave the computer chugging away
> overnight.

If you try this, and it works, please let us know what you did.

Thanks,
Bret

>
> dd if=/dev/hdF of=/dev/hdT
>
> F=<letter of From partiton>
> T=<letter of To partition>
>
> man dd   for all the gore.
>
> You might care to make the blocksize bigger, like the size of a cylinder,
> and the count to be the actual cylinder count of the partition. This will
> speed the data transfer considerably.
>
> If necessary you could then use one of the partition resizing tools.
>
> Alternatively why not use Windows? Being a Unix geek, I haven't a clue how,
> but I'd be very surprised if it's not possible.
>
> --
> C. S.

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