[TriLUG] upgrading to a bigger HD

[Jason Tower]

piece of cake, assuming you have a box to copy it to temporarily.  boot 
knoppix, get root shell:

dd if=/dev/hda | ssh user at rem.ote.ho.st dd of=filename.img

then on the target machine:

ssh user at rem.ote.ho.st dd if=filename.img | dd of=/dev/hda

i do it all the time, makes a perfect copy.  plus you now have a backup 
of the drive image.  works great for bare metal disaster recovery as well.

jason



Christopher L Merrill wrote:
> I'm trying to upgrade my Thinkpad to a new HD.  It has WinXP on it.
> I've tried Ghost 9.0, but no joy (it looks like Ghost isn't as good
> as it used to be).   Basically, I need to copy the partitions to a
> new, larger HD, along with the MBR.
> 
> Since I've been looking for an excuse to try out Knoppix, is there
> any tool on Knoppix (or any other CD-bootable Linux distro) that
> would help me accomplish this task?
> 
> Note that I don't need the partitions resized (although it would be
> a bonus!), I could use Partition Magic, if necessary.  There is a
> combination of NTFS and FAT32 partitions on the drive.
> 
>