Re: Copying HDD to another HDD

[KHMan <keinhong@gmail.com>]

On 11/6/2011 10:35 PM, Mike Brown wrote:
> 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.
>[snip snip]
> 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.

Some random notes. fsarchiver also allows for flexibility on size. 
But I have mostly used partimage from systemrescuecd in practice 
for the bootable partition, for: (a) moving from IDE to SATA, (b) 
moving from SATA to a larger SATA, and (c) restoring older 
partition image due to flakey 780G support in new ATI drivers.

Restoring using partimage onto a larger partition area gives a 
partition of the old size, which can then be expanded using 
gparted. gparted can shrink NTFS too, I think, but I have never 
used it since I size boot partitions rather small.

IIRC, I moved cygwin folders by cutting-and-pasting folders while 
both drives are installed. Since I use the traditional simple 
security scheme, I cannot say for sure whether any of the above 
will work in all cases.

-- 
Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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