Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:07:12 +0200 From: Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu> To: Jorge Biquez <jbiquez@intranet.com.mx> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT. Duplicating Disk. Message-ID: <4CA088F0.90303@eskk.nu> In-Reply-To: <3368430072-783133147@intranet.com.mx> References: <3368430072-783133147@intranet.com.mx>
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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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