Booting NOT-Windows

[Ted Roche]

Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:

> To move a partition from one disk to another, I was using dd (and sometimes 
> just cat) with bzip2 and netcat to rip an image from one disk and dump it to 
> another disk in another laptop in realtime.  I found that while most of the 
> filesystem arrived at its destination intact, many parts of it did not.  I 
> could boot up the old drive with a Knoppix disk and get access to those 
> files, retransmit them as files over sftp/scp or something, and then they'd 
> work, but in the image, they were not kept intact.

I've routinely upgraded Windows and Linux machines to new HDDs using
partimage, which is available on recent Knoppix disks, separately, and
also on the Clonezilla CD. It archives individual partitions,
understanding the underlying file system, and compresses the archive. A
smart dd with (b|g)zip, basically. Restoring a Windows partition to a
larger new partition usually just involved running CHKDSK afterwards.

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Ted Roche
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