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
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