[ale] Ghost for Linux

[Tom & JaVonn]

Robert:

This sounds like a job for GNU Parted http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/  or one of it's GUI frontends.  It can resize FAT32 on the fly.

I agree that backing up critical files first would be a great idea --- copying the whole drive can send borderline drives over the edge.

Tom
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On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:10:10 -0400
Robert Heaven <robertheaven at earthlink.net> wrote:

> This discussion brings up something I think I need. My son called me
> today and said his Win2k box was having problems where it would suddenly
> make a clanking noise and then freeze. (sounds like the hard drive is
> about to die)
> 
> Can I install a new hard drive (set the old one to master and the new
> one to slave), boot from a Knoppix CD and "dd" the old to new drive?
> Does it copy the partition table? What happens to the extra space if the
> new drive is bigger than the old one? 
> 
> This box was originally a dual boot with Win2k and RH-8 (Grub boot
> loader) but, not being a geek, he never boots to Linux. Will "dd"
> preserve the dual boot?
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 15:50, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 
> > dd if=/dev/<disk> of=/mnt/usb/disk.img
> > 
> > Want compression?
> > 
> > dd if=/dev/<disk> | bzip2 -c9 | dd of=/mnt/usb/disk.img
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 15:57, Tom & JaVonn wrote:
> > > 	
> > > Anyone used g4l ?
> > > 
> > > Looking for a cheap or free way for clients to make images of their hard drive to external USB drives, even if they're NTFS format.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Tom
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