[XCSSA] HD imaging?

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On Friday 02 March 2007 10:42, Jeremy wrote:
> Nick, will the new drive be the same size? If so I've used partimaged
> successfully imaging 20 NTFS laptops with XP and Slackware. If the
> drive is bigger, you'll have to use Partition Magic in XP to "grow"
> the drive. I don't know how to do this under Linux (yet).

If you want to stick with all FLOS software.. then "dd" or "cat" (faster) your 
dev1->dev2 (ensuring that you're using forced LBA on both (or the exact same 
geometry method on dev2 that is being used on dev1-stock) it critical).. 
and then use qtparted to "grow it". No?

Tweeks

> --
> Jeremy
>
> On 3/2/07, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org <xcssa-admin@xcssa.org> wrote:
> > I need to image a laptop hard drive and restore it onto a new drive. 
> > NTFS. I know there's PartImage and SelfImage and such, but I would like
> > to know what people have experienced as working the best for them.
> >
> > I don't have original XP media, just the restore disk (HP laptop).
> >
> > Thanks for any advice,
> > Nick
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