Sorry, for the late reponse...
You have: Windows 98
proprietary software
What you can do is easy:
1) Install the new Hardrive with a new Windows 98
and make it bootable (make sure it works)
2) stop your computer and attach the old Harddisk to
the secoindary IDE-
The dd can be from a live cdrom or from a small partition on the box
reserved just for this purpose. The latter is no good in the case of a
dead disk but is convenient otherwise.
What about mirrordir? Assuming equal partitions on 2 disks, say from a
prior dd run, how does the result of
mir
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Doofus wrote:
Only do this in single user mode though, right? Or better still, on a
Make sure that the MS-Window system is not active in any way (through a
virtual system or whatever).
The dd can be from a live cdrom or from a small partition on the box
reserved just f
Micha Feigin wrote:
I want to make an exact backup of a hard drive (copy one drive to another). It
contains a program who's copy protection checks changes to the system so unless
I can restore it exactly the program will stop running (it's a veterinary
clinic software so I don't think that there
Mike Smith wrote:
I'd prefer you not to top post.
Hmm... Doesn't the hard drive's MBR have the disk size on it?
Yes, but the MBR is not part of any partition. Using dd on
/hda1 uses the partition, not the physical disc.
(I know that's the case with floppy disks - I made Windows think a
1.44
Hmm... Doesn't the hard drive's MBR have the disk size on it?
(I know that's the case with floppy disks - I made Windows think a 1.44mb floppy was 33.6 mb once. The power of a hex editor ;-) )
On 3/21/06, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Philippe De Ryck wrote:> Well, according to me a dd o
On Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:40, John Fleming wrote:
> >> > A pointer: take a dump of the entire drive (dd if=/dev/hda) and not
> >> > just
> >> > partition.
>
> Please tell this newbie additional info that's probably obvious to everyone
> else - What all should be stopped while dd is doing it's th
Philippe De Ryck wrote:
Well, according to me a dd of a live system is a really bad idea. The
safest way is just boot with a live linux CD (knoppix for instance) and
dump the partitions from the HDD. Do NOT dump a mounted partition.
This was my thought on the matter as well, use Knoppix or Kano
Micha Feigin wrote:
I want to make an exact backup of a hard drive (copy one drive to another). It
contains a program who's copy protection checks changes to the system so unless
I can restore it exactly the program will stop running (it's a veterinary
clinic software so I don't think that there
Dmitri Minaev wrote:
>On 3/21/06, Robert Brockway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>>>There may be a way around this limitation or to fix it after
>>>performing dd.
>>>
>>>
>>Following a reimaging from dd the options to expand the filesystem are:
>>1. Resize the filesystem using suitable too
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 07:40 -0500, John Fleming wrote:
> >> > A pointer: take a dump of the entire drive (dd if=/dev/hda) and not
> >> > just
> >> > partition.
>
> Please tell this newbie additional info that's probably obvious to everyone
> else - What all should be stopped while dd is doing it
> A pointer: take a dump of the entire drive (dd if=/dev/hda) and not
> just
> partition.
Please tell this newbie additional info that's probably obvious to everyone
else - What all should be stopped while dd is doing it's thing, IOW stop
mail server and anything else that might be actively t
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 00:17 -0500, Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Philippe De Ryck wrote:
>
> > A pointer: take a dump of the entire drive (dd if=/dev/hda) and not just
> > partition. I've had some systems that wouldn't accept the restored
> > version (PC wouldn't boot anymore due t
On Monday 20 March 2006 14:24, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote:
> Micha Feigin wrote:
> >I want to make an exact backup of a hard drive (copy one drive to
> > another). It contains a program who's copy protection checks changes to
> > the system so unless I can restore it exactly the program wil
On Monday 20 March 2006 13:32, Micha Feigin wrote:
> I want to make an exact backup of a hard drive (copy one drive to another).
> It contains a program who's copy protection checks changes to the system so
> unless I can restore it exactly the program will stop running (it's a
> veterinary clinic
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Philippe De Ryck wrote:
A pointer: take a dump of the entire drive (dd if=/dev/hda) and not just
partition. I've had some systems that wouldn't accept the restored
version (PC wouldn't boot anymore due to no OS found) unless the whole
disk was restored.
I've done this plen
On 3/21/06, Robert Brockway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > There may be a way around this limitation or to fix it after
> > performing dd.
> Following a reimaging from dd the options to expand the filesystem are:
> 1. Resize the filesystem using suitable tools if possible.
> or
> 2. Take the data o
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
I seem to recall that it doesn't. I believe that dd will cause the
partition to think it's the size of the original partition. So it
"works," but you can only use as much space as the original hard drive
had.
That's right. It does work in so far
On 2006-03-20, Micha Feigin penned:
> On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:46:15 -0600 Mark Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> There's a few ways to do this, such as 'dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc'
>
> Will this work if the drives are not of the same size? (I want to
> backup the drive so that I can re
Micha Feigin writes:
> Will [dd] work if the drives are not of the same size?
It will work as long as the destination drive is as large or larger than
the source.
> I want to backup the drive so that I can restore it later if there is a
> problem
You could copy the disk to a file.
> Like I said
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 09:24 +1100, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote:
> Micha Feigin wrote:
>
> >I want to make an exact backup of a hard drive (copy one drive to another).
> >It
> >contains a program who's copy protection checks changes to the system so
> >unless
> >I can restore it exactly th
Micha Feigin wrote:
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:46:15 -0600
Mark Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 03:32 PM 3/20/2006, you wrote:
I want to make an exact backup of a hard drive (copy one drive to another). It
... ... I have an extra hard disk so I thought to
use that. The new one is
Micha Feigin writes:
> I want to make an exact backup of a hard drive (copy one drive to
> another).
Use dd.
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Micha Feigin wrote:
I want to make an exact backup of a hard drive (copy one drive to another). It
contains a program who's copy protection checks changes to the system so unless
I can restore it exactly the program will stop running (it's a veterinary
clinic software so I don't think that there
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:46:15 -0600
Mark Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 03:32 PM 3/20/2006, you wrote:
> >I want to make an exact backup of a hard drive (copy one drive to another).
> >It
> >contains a program who's copy protection checks changes to the
> >system so unless
> >I can rest
I want to make an exact backup of a hard drive (copy one drive to another). It
contains a program who's copy protection checks changes to the system so unless
I can restore it exactly the program will stop running (it's a veterinary
clinic software so I don't think that there is a free alternative)
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