-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Joseph Cheng wrote: > Hello I have an OS installation and data on a 40 gb drive that I would > like to image to a 80 gb drive. I don't care if the resulting > partition layout on the new drive is only 40 gb making me lose space. > I just want to move everything from the older drive because I think > it's failing. I have looked at partimage and mondo rescue as imaging > solutions but both deal with partitions. CAn someone plz point me to a > howto that shows how to image the entire drive incuding mbr, partiton > table and data all with one program? I am hoping to boot with a CD to > do this while having both drives plugged in. So I think something like > knoppix? TIA! Either boot into knoppix and use dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hda2 plus whatever other arguments you want passed, or checking out Ghost 4 Linux (G4L). I'm not sure if G4L requires you to have to identical sized drives though. http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l Max -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with CentOS - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFJq9gHoeeepPau2ERAjHSAJ9NlAXk8dJN1+yo89+F8LHG0yXjHwCgvQ3S snAXuJPE3sCrDOOrsOj8+74= =1hil -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----