Hard Drive going bad

seldomseen · 12-10-2003, 12:59 PM

have a secondary harddrive with RH9 on it but I can hear it scraping which sounds like its on its way out. Is there anyway to move my OS over to another HD when I buy a new one?

Nimoy · 12-10-2003, 01:13 PM

Well there is an article on GHOST by Norton and Linux use at http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0306a/

And then there is The JACAL Project which is a suite of programs, scripts, guidelines, protocols, documentation, and diskettes that assist in quick, network based loads/builds of machines. It has been used to build 70 University lab machines from scratch (No OS) in two hours. This includes NT service packs and 80+ applications on the NT side.

Homepage http://jacal.sourceforge.net/
Download http://sourceforge.net/project/filel...?group_id=1988

transeunt · 12-10-2003, 01:16 PM

Yes most new HD's come with softweare to do so..... But and a big but, its usually windows based. Drive Copy with a boot Cd should do the trick unless the partition is ext3.. I am not sure it supports past ext2

read this to see more info

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,111073,00.asp

Unfortunately I don't know of any OpenSource projects attempting what you need.

whansard · 12-10-2003, 02:13 PM

as long as the new drive is a little bigger, you can use dd.
hook up the drive somewhere, and copy away.
best in single user mode.
like newdrive=hdd olddrive=hdc
dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hdd