IDE to SATA HDD image
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Hi, I have an 80GB IDE hard disk with multi boot with Linux and Win2k professional and plan to buy a Maxtor/WD SATA 250GB+ HDD. I was wondering if using manufacturer supplied software can I mirror from IDE to SATA. The pain of reinstalling 3 OSes and gazillions of softwares, some of which I have lost the registration info for, is not worth upgrading to me. I know using Ghost/Partition Magic I can achieve this but thats like spending $50-$80 more.
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Hi, I have an 80GB IDE hard disk with multi boot with Linux and Win2k professional and plan to buy a Maxtor/WD SATA 250GB+ HDD. I was wondering if using manufacturer supplied software can I mirror from IDE to SATA. The pain of reinstalling 3 OSes and gazillions of softwares, some of which I have lost the registration info for, is not worth upgrading to me. I know using Ghost/Partition Magic I can achieve this but thats like spending $50-$80 more.
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Hook both HDDs up to your computer, boot the computer using a Live-Linux-CD/DVD, partition the new HDD, use DD to copy your data over, reconfigure your boot-manager, unplug old hdd, reboot, if it works, throw the old HDD away or send it to me.
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Anonymous wrote: Does Linux dd command work with NTFS and its permissions? Thanks for the reply. dd does a binary image of the disk, it actually doesn't have any filesystem concepts. I see dead pixels Yes, even I am blogging now!
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Hook both HDDs up to your computer, boot the computer using a Live-Linux-CD/DVD, partition the new HDD, use DD to copy your data over, reconfigure your boot-manager, unplug old hdd, reboot, if it works, throw the old HDD away or send it to me.
Anonymous wrote: if it works, throw the old HDD away IDE hard-drives make great walk-away backup drives using a $30-$60 USB/Firewire case. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)