moving contents from one drive to another

[Scott Howell]

Because DD assumes that both drives are the same size. You wouldn't  
want to dd 3Gb of contents on to a 20Gb drive. I don't know of an  
effective way to get around this.


Scott



On Jan 2, 2006, at 11:17 AM, Steve Dawes wrote:

> why not use dd
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> Steve
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> Subject: moving contents from one drive to another
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> Folks,someone has asked if I could take their winblows drive and move
> the entire contents over to a new drive. The old drive is not in the
> best of health. Is there a utility that would move the entire
> contents including boot info so fdisk would not have to be used to
> restore the boot record? The drives are of different sizes.
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> tnx
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