From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15057 invoked by alias); 6 Nov 2011 15:44:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 15044 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Nov 2011 15:44:32 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-iy0-f171.google.com (HELO mail-iy0-f171.google.com) (209.85.210.171) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:44:16 +0000 Received: by iaqq3 with SMTP id q3so175363iaq.2 for ; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 07:44:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.42.148.136 with SMTP id r8mr15272527icv.1.1320594255824; Sun, 06 Nov 2011 07:44:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.100] ([175.138.170.9]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a4sm16055547pbd.7.2011.11.06.07.44.13 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 06 Nov 2011 07:44:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4EB6AB46.5060109@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:44:00 -0000 From: KHMan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Copying HDD to another HDD References: <20111106103720.GF23597@mrvideo.vidiot.com> <4EB69788.5020503@molconn.com> <20111106143533.GQ23597@mrvideo.vidiot.com> In-Reply-To: <20111106143533.GQ23597@mrvideo.vidiot.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00107.txt.bz2 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 -- 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