[CS-FSLUG] Hard Drive Cloning

[Brian Derr]

On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 14:24 -0600, Jim Isbell, W5JAI wrote:
> I have a Linux box for myself and my wife has an XP box.  They are not
> networked (never could get them to work that way) but ther are on the
> same router to the cable connection.

That is easy to fix.  Explain what you are trying to accomplish and we
would be able to walk you through it.

> I want to clone the 80GB drive in my wifes XP machine.  I have two
> 80GB drives in it now and they are both recognised by XP.  C: is the
> boot drive.  I want to clone C: to D: so that it can be used as the
> boot drive in another computer.

The easiest would be Norton Ghost.  You put the DOS binary on a Win98
boot disk and you can easily "ghost" or copy an entire partition or
drive to another drive.

If this is not an option then pop a knoppix (or live CD of choice) into
the XP machine and boot up.  Once you have a command prompt then use
`dd' to copy one drive to the other.

I hope this gets you started in the right direction.

Brian