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Subject: [NMLUG] hard drive replacement how to,
From: niosop at msn.com (MATTHEW BOWIE)
Date: Fri Jun 2 12:05:36 2006
In-reply-to: <1cc62d50606021047n62a45151xa486d4b2bdcf597c@mail.gmail.com>

Oh, if the disks are identical, you can also boot from almost any bootable 
linux cd, then use:

dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb

which will do a raw dump of the whole device.  Make sure that hda is the old 
drive and hdb is the new drive or you'll end up overwriting your old drive.

Matthew

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