[ale] migrating win98 hard drive

[lance crocker]

i would just use ghost. it sould handle the partition info fine. Just set it
to copy one drive to the other.

If you have more than one partition it will keep roughly the same partitions
on the new drive ( precentage wise anyway ).

I have done this more than once with ghost.

Lance

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Kinney III
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 5:01 PM
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Subject: [ale] migrating win98 hard drive


I need to migrate a Win98 hard drive to a larger drive. For many
reasons, adding a second drive is not an option.

I was looking at doing a "dd" but the drives are different sizes (4G vs.
60G)

So I'm looking at a tar copy (using toms root/boot). But that won't
handle the MBR. Can I just dd the MBR? Before? After? Can I format the
drive, dd the old drive onto the new formatted drive and have the rest
of the drive as free space. Will dd respect block and sector structure
of the new drive?


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