[Web4lib] OT. Duplicating Disk.

[Jorge Biquez]

Hello

Just curious.... the entire disk? I have read the man pages for dd 
command under Freebsd and I am not sure if I can clone the disk 
completely, even the eisa partition....

Thanks for the time and advice.

Jorge Biquez

At 06:22 a.m. 27/09/2010, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>With dd you can duplicate the hd, then with a linux intallation cd 
>you can resize the partitions.
>
>Good luck!!
>
>Jorge R.
>
> > Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 06:07:37 -0500
> > To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> > From: jbiquez at icsmx.com
> > Subject: [Web4lib] OT. Duplicating Disk.
> >
> > Hello all.
> >
> > This is kind off topic.
> >
> > U have and "old" laptopn, an Acer Travelmate 4670. It has a sata
> > disk, 120Gb. It has been working fine in all these years. I have
> > installed Freebsd with its boot manager and inside has Windows and a
> > distro linux. I choose what OS to use depending on my needs every
> > time I boot. The SATA interface is smaller, since it is a disk of 2.5
> > inches and it is a disk for a laptop
> >
> > I have decided to give it fresh air and I bought a disk of 500GB.
> > Instead of installing everything again I would like to duplicate
> > entire disk, as is, with its MBR and all partitions for all the
> > different OS's. I bought an USB enclosure that is working fine. The
> > machine recognice the new disk if I attach it as a USB disk (in all
> > OS no problem on that). As a test also I decided to change disks and
> > install somethig, no problem at all.
> >
> > My question is. What would be your advice on what tool to use to
> > duplicate entire disk? (the adjust of size for the partitions of each
> > different OS can be done later, no problem I guess).
> >
> > I was recommend to use DiskImageXML, booting alone and copy the
> > disk but it does not work. Not yet.
> >
> > I guess the problem is that the original disk still has a 4Gb
> > partition with all the Acer tools , the first partition, to recover
> > teh Windows XP origibal system (type or partition EISA). Not sure on
> > that but that program is not working. I receive an error when booting.
> > On my desktop I used to use old Norton Ghost 2003 with my IDE disk
> > and still work fine, but here does not work at all since the USB
> > ports are not recognized.
> >
> > Do you know of a program tool that can be used that boot alone, free
> > if possible or cheap, that let me copy entire disk, as is, that do the job?
> >
> > I am sorry for the kind of off topic and thanks in advance
> >
> > Jorge Biquez
> >
> >
> >
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