CGTalk - Ghosting a drive

rebo

09-04-2005, 11:45 AM

Not had much experience of this so I wonder if anyone can suggest/recommend a method that works for them. I know google will provide many different methods but I'd prefer a recommendation by someone who has actually done this.

I have the following drives:

Source Drive :: 180 Gb hard disk
Source Partition :: 50 Gb Partition

Destination Drive :: 80 Gb hard disk ( new)

So I want to transfer the source partion over to my new drive, obviously I cant ghost the entire drive as its too big for the new drive. The reason I cant just "copy" the files or at least why i think i cant is that the 50Gb Source Partition is my windows installation.

The operating systems I have are Win XP and a Knoppix boot LiveCD.

Thanks for any suggestions

SweetDreamz

09-04-2005, 04:36 PM

Edit: Sorry, read it wrong, nevermind what I said.

kaiser_pro

09-04-2005, 04:39 PM

with knoppix you need to use the command "DD"

but first you need to find out where your drives are on the ide tree by typing in a shell:

fdisk -l
which will output a list of all drive and partitions

then use DD
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
which will copy the entire contence of the primary drive on the first IDE channel to the secondry drive on the first channel

to copy the first partition of hda it would be /dev/hda1

rebo

09-04-2005, 06:47 PM

Thanks dont you just love live linux CDs :D.

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