On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:31:53 +0400, Daneel Yaitskov wrote:

> JR the Postman wrote:
>> I need to clone older IDE drive to new SATA drive with a dual booting
>> O/S systems:
>>
>> Windows XP & Mepis 7 64-bit Linux... Using grub (Will this need to be
>> edited to find Windows and the Linux distro?)
>>
>> I understand I can boot a live CD and then use the dd command to clone
>> the 80 gig IDE drive attached as a sdc1 to the Larger 320 gig SATA
>> drive sda0... If I set bios to use Sata hard drive only, the slave
>> position on the CD drive cable will still be available...
>>
>> I do not want to image, I only want to clone the existing 80 gig to to
>> the new SATA drive. Will I need to prepare the new SATA drive as a
>> boot drive, with the partitions or is the dd command the entire
>> solution and will do everything?
>>
>> The 80 gig IDE drive is installed in a motherboard that provides
>> support for both IDE and SATA - ECS ASterope3/RC410
>>
>> I am not certain about windows, will I need to reactivate with the hard
>> drive change, will that be a problem? Or, a phone call to reactivate
>> after a booting with the SATA drive...
>>
>> JR
>
> I hint that you will use high-level copying. Load from a livecd. Create
> as much, as many the amount of the partitions at the new hdd and mount
> them and the partitions of the old hdd.
>
> After these operations new hdd will contain workable system. Then, using
> the program chroot, you will fix up a loader. I don't about the grub,
> but I always so make. My loader is the lilo. Please, It will note, that
> new root partition must contain the folders /bin, the /usr and the /etc.
> Other partitions would mount after.
>
> exmaple:
> $chroot /tmp
> $vi /etc/lilo # edit the boot table
> $lilo # apply the changes
> $exit
> $reboot
>
> Before the chroot umount those partitions which you will be to mount in
> the new system, just in case.
>
> Daneel

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Daneel.

This motherboard is a problem, that is new information. My experience
with this motherboards, is finding information on this motherboard is
like hating to visit the dentist, and suddenly being put into the
position of pulling my own Teeth...

The user complains about a slow USB, and I also can not locate a USB
driver from HP, or ECS... Can only presume it is part of the chip set
bundle...

I was thinking about using the powerful DD command from a live CD, after
preparing the drive as a boot drive with the manufactures set up
utilities... Maybe that setup preparation is a waste of time?

dd if=/dev/sdc1 of=/dev/sda0

And then removing the IDE drive, taking the ordinary step of tossing some
salt over my shoulder and pressing the on, button.

It is only a 80 gig drive with a working dual boot set-up... This is not
a critical server, or a cad driven Bridgeport milling machine or water
jet...

I was going to set up an experiment to see if I can accomplish this, but
I do not have a similar ECS motherboard with the SATA & IDE Hard drive
connection. I do have a ECS Geforce6100 to perform the copy test but
since I do not have a method to install windows via IDE on that
motherboard can not check its like or dislike when being upgraded to a
SATA Drive...

I appreciate the valuable input, but wonder why you did not mentioned
the dd command? I would presume somewhere there is a live CD Distro
about with a GUI for the express purpose of scanning all drives, and
performing a copy or back-up from one drive to another...

This would be a simple system for most small office to perform a monthly
backup or recovery of their main computer to a USB drive for off premise
storage...

A good Kiss system a business owner that would have confidence in
using... Windows and its activation would be the only stumbling block,
if they lost the computer to dishonist employee, fire, or theft...

But with a linux operating system there would not be the same hardware
problems and no activation problem...

QuickBooks and Peachtree running with wine 1.1, and more small offices
would migrate to Linux, because they will not use Vista...

JR