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RE: Transfering Old HD to New (bigger) HD
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- Subject: RE: Transfering Old HD to New (bigger) HD
- From: "Clinton De Young" <[email protected]>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 12:14:21 -0700
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- Thread-Topic: Transfering Old HD to New (bigger) HD
You forgot to format the new drive. : )
I used a program called mondo (or something like that) to do what you are suggesting. An article was printed in Linux Journal a couple of months ago if you subscribe to that magazine.
Clinton
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Kopenkoskey [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 11:53 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Transfering Old HD to New (bigger) HD
Hi all,
My brother-in-law is looking for a way to upgrade his Hard Drive (his
kids need more space for their harry potter game). He uses windows, but
I thought this may be a great time to show him the *power and ability*
of linux.
I would like to purchase a new hard drive (20 - 40 GB) physically
install it in his computer, and copy the contents from his old hard
drive (~8 GB) to the new one.
Are the following steps viable:
1) FDISK and format the drive under windows.
2) Boot from a rescue floppy disk or cdrom.
3) Mark the new drive as bootable using linux fdisk.
4) Mount both drives under linux.
5) Use 'cp -a' to move the contents of the old HD to the new HD.
6) Copy the boot sector from the old HD to the new HD;
example: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdd bs=512 count=1
7) Jumper the new HD as the primary HD, remove the old HD.
8) Boot windows.
Has anyone done something like this?
Am I missing any steps?
Thanks,
Larry J. Kopenkoskey
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