From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9221 invoked by alias); 6 Nov 2011 14:36:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 9137 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Nov 2011 14:36:04 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,TW_XM X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mrvideo.vidiot.com (HELO mrvideo.vidiot.com) (75.100.112.198) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:35:33 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=mrvideo.vidiot.com) by mrvideo.vidiot.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RN3or-0007Tl-BZ for cygwin@cygwin.com; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 08:35:33 -0600 Received: (from brown@localhost) by mrvideo.vidiot.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/Submit) id pA6EZXHQ028752 for cygwin@cygwin.com; Sun, 6 Nov 2011 08:35:33 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:36:00 -0000 From: Mike Brown To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Copying HDD to another HDD Message-ID: <20111106143533.GQ23597@mrvideo.vidiot.com> References: <20111106103720.GF23597@mrvideo.vidiot.com> <4EB69788.5020503@molconn.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4EB69788.5020503@molconn.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-11/txt/msg00106.txt.bz2 On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 09:19:52AM -0500, LMH wrote: > I think you want to use a disk clone to do this, something like the > clonezilla live CD. As long as the drives are the same size, or the target > drive is larger, clonezilla will just copy one drive to the other. It does > a bit by bit clone, so it doesn't care about files and permissions and > such. Unfortunately the original is larger. > Even if you could copy with cp, you need the boot sector and such to get > the OS up, so that wouldn't work. Actually it would. There are two ways to do that. First, which is what I did in order to find out if the new mobo would boot anything, is to install XP on the IDE drive. That created the MBR. I just erased everything that was installed on the disk. The other way is to copy the files over and run the XP boot disk repair console and run the fixmbr program, which will drop a new MBR on the drive. So, I'm stuck with two drives of different sizes, which adds to the problem. An interesting thought just came to mind. If I can get all of the XP stuff copied over and get it to boot and finish the XP upgrade, I can then copy over the remainder of the files for all of the other stuff, as I'll now have the permissions I need. MB -- e-mail: vidiot@vidiot.com | vidiot@vidiot.net /~\ The ASCII [I've been to Earth. I know where it is. ] \ / Ribbon Campaign [And I'm gonna take us there. Starbuck 3/25/07] X Against Visit - URL: http://vidiot.com/ | http://vidiot.net/ / \ HTML Email -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple