Re: [SLE] partition copy

On Thursday 09 June 2005 17:20, Sunny wrote:

Hi, I just got a bigger HDD for my laptop. I need to move the existing windows installation over the new drive.

Is there a free utility which will allow me to make a partition copy (NTFS) to a network share, and restore from there? I can not plug both drives at the same time, so I need to copy the old one, and then to install the new one.

All this is to make a free space for suse. I taught about running knoppix and dd, but I'm not sure that this will work.

dd will work just fine for you. You can dd the entire disk -- the old one -- to your network share and then dd it back to your new disk. Use dd with a 32k block size and it'll work fast as well. -- Christopher Shanahan

Thanks Sunny