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    Question on 'Ghosting' drive

    Hi,

    Long time lurker, first time poster. After my main hard drive (160GB WD) crashed last week, I decided to finally put Kubuntu on my main computer. I have been running Vista Ultimate on it but decided I just don't game much anymore (the reason I kept vista around) and really have been getting into learning more and more about linux.

    Well I decided that while I will still need to keep Vista 64bit around, I'm using Kubuntu 8.10 (64bit) as my main OS now and dual booting my machine. I have ~20 old 40GB EIDE drives laying around and used one of them to install Vista and Kubuntu on. This was to get me by until today when bought a terabyte SATA drive.

    Now what I would like to do is ghost my (temporary) main 40gb HDD onto one of my other drives (I have a couple 250's I'm using for torrent and backups) and then be able to take that IDE drive out and put in the faster, sleeker SATA drive which will be formatted, partitioned and imaged with the 40gb drive's data.

    It took forever to get vista and kubuntu updated, drivers installed, and tweaked just the way I wanted, so any help in finding a program I can use to "Ghost" this 40gb drive is much appreciated!
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    Re: Question on 'Ghosting' drive

    It's called dd.

    You can easily run it from a live CD, because there are many valid instructions on how to use it I'll only give this suggestion for google:
    Code:
    linux dd
    In case you want to narrow it down just add image to the search.

    A general tip, have both source and destination disks unmounted while imaging.
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      Re: Question on 'Ghosting' drive

      So I would boot from a livecd and then run the DD command to image my old 40gb drive to the terabyte drive....

      Basically?
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        Re: Question on 'Ghosting' drive

        As for dd:

        My how-to.
        See Reply #1 -- Experiments/applications.
        You do NOT need to read the OP, unless you want background.

        Also GParted has capabilities:
        GParted (Live CD, USB, HD)
        http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
        New Manual. New man page. See Documentation:
        http://gparted.sourceforge.net/documentation.php
        News:
        http://gparted.sourceforge.net/news.php?alles=alles

        As do these:
        Back-ups:
        Clonezilla
        G4L
        g4u
        Partimage

        An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski
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          Re: Question on 'Ghosting' drive

          Qqmike:

          I didn't understand your post after the "as for dd:" part. Was there a link that didn't work?

          I know Gparted is a great tool but isn't it just a repartitioning program? How will that help me in imaging my drive? All I want to do is create a 'ghost' image of my temp hard drive then use that image on my new terabyte drive.

          In windows, you simply have a program like 'ghost' that makes an image of your drive, you put the image where every you need to. You boot to the imaging software, indicated what image you want to use and viola...instant hard drive swap.

          I know it has to be as easy or easier in linux. I'm not against the command line but I would prefer not having to jury-rig my computer so I can have both drives plugged in at the same time (not enough space and I am mounting the new drive in where the temp drive is now). I would like an image, I do not wish to do a disk copy.

          EDIT: Partimage may be what I was looking for
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            Re: Question on 'Ghosting' drive

            The link was:
            -- dd Command
            http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3090824.0
            Reply#2: Making a backup of your Kubuntu OS

            BUT, dd can be, well, tricky-messy-whoop-dee-do.
            For sure, one can dd the entire HD and then dd it back to the same or identical drive (size).
            And so on.

            Partimage is well-known, too. I know Linux guys that use only that and do quite extensive stuff.

            I frankly don't know much about imaging, except there seems to be a lot to know, based on all the religious exchanges I see on it. I do quick, risky, dd's on the fly here and there; but some old-timers use it for almost everything. I don't recommend it for what you are doing, on the spur here w/o lots of "study."

            Good luck -- you might report back, if you wish, to let us know your experience. Maybe Search on this forum, too, as the subject has come up a lot.


            An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski
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              Re: Question on 'Ghosting' drive

              BTW, GParted -- I know it's used to copy partitions, but am not sure about more general disk ghosting. The new Manual at the Documentation site should tell.

              New Manual. New man page. See Documentation:
              http://gparted.sourceforge.net/documentation.php
              An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski
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                Re: Question on 'Ghosting' drive

                Partimage is included on the SystemRescueCd:

                http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
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