moving contents from one drive to another

[Scott Howell]

Thanks for the info all you good folks. Steve that does sound like  
one hell of a trick, will have to look at taht as well as  
partitionimage. I thik I have that around here, but surely have dd on  
the box..grin. Well ay the machine will be for my son as I got my  
wife and myself Macs so there ya go.



Scott



On Jan 3, 2006, at 10:57 AM, Dawes, Stephen wrote:

> OK,
> Create a 3gb partition on the new drive.
> Format it.
> Copy all files from the one drive to the other, using cp -a
> Now for the fun part.
> DD the first master record of the old drive on to the new drive.
>
> Note, do all the copying of files through linux because Windows has
> hidden files that LINUX sees.
>
> This should work.
>
> Also do a google on "stupid dd tricks"
> It was an excellent article on how the author used dd to do what  
> you are
> trying to do, if I am reading your thread correctly.
> The author didn't want to use ghost because of the licensing issues  
> and
> yet he had to create a number of computers with an imaging process.
> If you can't find the article, I may have it around here somewhere.
>
>
> Steve Dawes
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