[NMLUG] hard drive replacement how to,

[timothyemerick at yahoo.com (Tim Emerick)]

I like ghost but am always anxious to use Linux apps whenever I can.  Breaking my firmly developed Windows habit is hard.
   
  I'm sure you've heard of g4u but if not....   http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/
   
  I've sorta been itching to try it out.  I'm frequently having to re-image machines at my job.  It's easier to fix a hosed WinXP machine from an image that's on a server than a painfully long fresh install.  Windows + Spyware + lame users = Pain in my A**
   
  Tim

Steve Browne <sbrowne@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
  On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 12:46:01 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

>I'm currently doing this as I type.
> 
> I had a 250gig start to go bad.
> 
> I just booted up a knoppix type disk in my case Knoppix-STD but you can use DSL or whatever. I've heard that the SUSE boot/rescue disk works well too.
> 
> Once I got a command prompt I typed 
> 
> dd if=/dev/hde of=/dev/hdg
> 
> where if=old disk and of=new disk
> 
> It's been running all night copying all 250gigs. Was still running when I went to work this morning.
> 
> Good luck!

The only problem with   
   is that since it is copying every sector,
whether used or blank, it takes quite a while (i.e., hours). I back up
my HDD every other day, which could get tedious with   
   .

So I use Symantec Ghost 8.2 (for DOS) co-residing on a floppy boot
disk with PC-DOS. It takes about 14 minutes to back up 30Gb of data.
It copies ext2, ext3, fat32, ntfs and more.

Symantec doesn't advertise Ghost for DOS, preferring to sell the
bloatware version. I recently found an independent Web page devoted to
Ghost: http://www.softpanorama.org/Unixification/norton_ghost.shtml

Steve
Stephen B. Browne
sbrowne@ix.netcom.com
"Ubi bene, ibi patria."

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