--- "Eric \"Shubes\"" wrote: > Kevin Brown wrote: > >> My sister's HP has been sending out ominous "drive about to fail" > >> messages. She asked me to help replace her drive. I did what I > >> normally do: after adding the new drive, I booted the system in Knoppix > >> to try to do the copy. The problem was the 5 GB "recovery" partition at > >> the beginning of the disk. Knoppix could not recognize this. The same > >> held true for Seagate's setup utility, which boots with DR-DOS (the > >> replacement drive is a Seagate.) Does anybody know what kind of file > >> system the Evil Empire uses for this partition? Secondly, is it now > >> safe to use Linux to copy NTFS files? My version of Knoppix is 3.3 and > >> I've since downloaded 4.0, but I don't want to drive back to my sister's > >> house unprepared. Is there a good Linux tool to do this? > > > > > > Most likely that is either a norton ghost image or a drive image image > > at the head of the drive. As for copying NTFS... well I would think a > > dd image of the drive would survive without issues, then use an NTFS > > safe application like PQMagic to expand the NTFS drive to fill the > > remainder of the new volume. > > --------------------------------------------------- > > I'll second that. > > dd just copies whatever's there, so I'd expect that it would copy the > recovery partition and the NTFS partition just fine. just "dd > if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1k" to copy the whole drive (after booting a > live CD, with no partitions on the drives mounted). Be sure to use the > appropriate designations for the drives as you have them installed. > > (I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.) > I'm not sure I would try to copy everything with partition table (although as far as I know, as long as the new disk is larger it might work.) I would create partitions on the destination drive, then use dd on each one, then expand partitions if needed. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss