From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 30 13:27:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.moted.org (reynard.midwest.net [208.235.2.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47BBC14C4B for ; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 13:27:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from parrothd@midwest.net) Received: from zippy2 ([207.250.168.20]) by www.moted.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA77748; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 15:17:07 GMT (envelope-from parrothd@midwest.net) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990830152458.0080a430@midwest.net> X-Sender: parrothd@midwest.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 15:24:58 -0500 To: "Jason J. Horton" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Jonathan E. Lyons" Subject: Re: duplicating a bad HDD In-Reply-To: <37CAE487.F5B2629C@intercom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Use ghost.exe from norton, it will make an exact copy of your current drive, we use it all the time for upgrading/coping drives. Works great for drives the same size or large, but won't allow you to resize a UNIX partitions, only FAT. Not sure on the dd... :) At 04:07 PM 8/30/99 -0400, Jason J. Horton wrote: >I have a machine that has a bad IDE HDD. Fortunately, the IDE feature SMART >realized this. >It is currently my boot drive. What I would like to to is back it up and >restore it onto >a new drive. How can I make an exact copy, including boot blocks and >everything? I am assuming >using dd, but can anyone give me an example? Jonathan E. Lyons parrothd@midwest.net Nucleus Consulting ICQ # 14226912 www.nucleusconsulting.com Cell # 773-251-1967 A+, MCSE, CCNA, FreeBSD! Pager # 7732511967@mobile.att.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message