From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 27 12:07:22 2010 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 672A61065693 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:07:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leslie@eskk.nu) Received: from mail.gelita.se (212-162-182-244.skbbip.com [212.162.182.244]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 268D98FC26 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:07:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.gelita.se (localhost.gelita.se [127.0.0.1]) by mail.gelita.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF83010EDFF; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:07:54 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at troback.com Received: from mail.gelita.se ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.gelita.se (mail.gelita.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Y+ujjBPUFCSE; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:07:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from bljbsd01.no-ip.org (c-195-216-040-164.static.bjare.net [195.216.40.164]) by mail.gelita.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id D59D610E50A; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:07:48 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4CA088F0.90303@eskk.nu> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:07:12 +0200 From: Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; sv-SE; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100918 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jorge Biquez <jbiquez@intranet.com.mx> References: <3368430072-783133147@intranet.com.mx> In-Reply-To: <3368430072-783133147@intranet.com.mx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT. Duplicating Disk. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:07:22 -0000 On 2010-09-28 13:00, Jorge Biquez wrote: > Hello all. > > This is kind off topic. > > U have and "old" laptopn, an Acer Travelmate 4670. It has a sata disk, > 120Gb. It has been working fine in all these years. I have installed > Freebsd with its boot manager and inside has Windows and a distro linux. > I choose what OS to use depending on my needs every time I boot. > > I have decided to give it fresh air and I bought a disk of 500GB. > Instead of installing everything again I would like to duplicate entire > disk, as is, with its MBR and all partitions for all the different OS's. > I bought an USB enclosure that is working fine. The machine recognice > the new disk if I attach it as a USB disk (in all OS no problem on > that). As a test also I decided to change disks and install somethig, no > problem at all. > > My question is. What would be your advice on what tool to use to > duplicate entire disk? (the adjust of size for the partitions of each > different OS can be done later, no problem I guess). > > I was recommend to use DiskImageXML, booting alone and copy the disk but > it does not work. Not yet. > > I guess the problem is that the original disk still has a 4Gb partition > with all the Acer tools , the first partition, to recover teh Windows XP > origibal system (type or partition EISA). Not sure on that but that > program is not working. I receive an error when booting. > On my desktop I used to use old Norton Ghost 2003 with my IDE disk and > still work fine, but here does not work at all since the USB ports are > not recognized. > > Do you know of a program tool that can be used that boot alone, free if > possible or cheap, that let me copy entire disk, as is, that do the job? > > I am sorry for the kind of off topic and thanks in advance > > Jorge Biquez > I've done what you want to do. Using the PartedMagic CD. http://partedmagic.com/ On the cd is the program Ghost4Linux. It can image disks with UFS partitions as well as long as you don't need to resize them. /Leslie