[Gllug] Copying Laptop Drive

[Jon Dye]

Chanka A. Perera wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 00:44, Andrew Richardson wrote:
> 
>>Chanka A. Perera wrote:
>>
>>
>>>yes it'll take hours so best thing is to backup your data and 
>>>reinstall .. any way clearly explain what's your requirement...
>>>
>>>Chanka Perera
>>>
>>
>>My requirement is to make a perfect copy of my 20gb drive (incl all o/s,
>>partitions, data and mbr) directly on to a similar disk without having 
>>to write an archive.  I would prefer if possible not to reinstall all 
>>the software.  That would take even more hours and a good deal more hassle.
> 
> 
> if you go on GNU tools dd would do else Norton Ghost/ PQ Magic 

There is also partimage (http://www.partimage.org/) which is a GNU tool 
for copying and backing up partitions just like ghost.

JD
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