Technonoid Posted August 13, 2003 Report Share Posted August 13, 2003 My main drive is sick. Its having startup sickness. I have 3 other drives exactly like it, and I'm looking for suggestions as to the best free software to image the drive from the sick drive to another drive. The drive has 6 or more partitions, 3 of them fat32, 2 ext3 and 1 ext2. If my memory serves me correctly. TIA Tech Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted August 13, 2003 Report Share Posted August 13, 2003 I'm using partimage. Easy to use and free. You can even install a GUI if you want. I suggest you to download the bootable cd. http://partimage.org/ Good luck! MOttS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
static Posted August 13, 2003 Report Share Posted August 13, 2003 Yeah - partimage seems to be the way to go. Has anyone tried this yet? Looks pretty good... I'm anxious to hear some "user testimonials" for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted August 13, 2003 Report Share Posted August 13, 2003 Partimage is excellent and I use it all the time. It can't direcltly clone an entire hard drive however. You'll have to image each partition on the drive and store the images somewhere other than the partition your imaging from or restoring to(if that makes any sense) and then do a restore to your new drive. If you have a lot of partitions, it could get tedious. If you want to spend a few bucks, you can get Acronis True Image which has the capability to clone an entire drive. It recognizes all common linux file systems and retails for around $50 last time I checked. It has a nice gui, is user friendly and can backup to CD-R and span media. The downside, you need to have windows to initally install the program after which you can make a bootable CD which will work fine with linux partitions/drives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technonoid Posted August 13, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2003 I may have to use partimage, I was looking for something I could do a drive to drive image. I had something that would do it. But, I can't find it or remember its name. :roll: It was a windoze program though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted August 13, 2003 Report Share Posted August 13, 2003 I was looking for something I could do a drive to drive image. What about dd then? Or assuming both HD (the old one and the new one) are in the computer, boot cd1 of Mandrake, press F1 and type 'rescue'. At the menu, select 'go to console'. Now you can use cp to copy the old drive to the new one... Or .. look for your Win software .. Maybe it was Ghost or DriveCopy? MOttS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted August 13, 2003 Report Share Posted August 13, 2003 yeah ...I'm with Motts ... use dd dd if=/dev/old_hda1 of=/dev/new_hdb1 (then come back in an hour or so) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted August 13, 2003 Report Share Posted August 13, 2003 probably easiest way.. otherwise partimage... been using it a long time.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GorGor Posted August 15, 2003 Report Share Posted August 15, 2003 excellent tips so far, The only caution I can think of is watch your hd format, partimage can handle most, but I dont think Norton Ghost can handle reiserfs last time I checked. Don't know about the other $ programs but you catch my drift. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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