From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.46]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1EtipB-0007ZT-00 for ; Tue, 03 Jan 2006 04:51:25 -0500 Received: from [192.168.2.145] ([151.205.151.83]) by vms046.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0ISI00ILEGPGYIA0@vms046.mailsrvcs.net> for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Tue, 03 Jan 2006 03:51:17 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 04:51:15 -0500 From: Scott Howell In-reply-to: To: sdawes@telus.net, "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-id: <7C340720-41B7-4F5D-84C2-2F84C2E1F1F9@verizon.net> MIME-version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: Subject: Re: moving contents from one drive to another X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 09:51:26 -0000 Because DD assumes that both drives are the same size. You wouldn't want to dd 3Gb of contents on to a 20Gb drive. I don't know of an effective way to get around this. Scott On Jan 2, 2006, at 11:17 AM, Steve Dawes wrote: > why not use dd > > > Steve > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca > [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Scott Howell > Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 4:21 AM > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > Subject: moving contents from one drive to another > > > Folks,someone has asked if I could take their winblows drive and move > the entire contents over to a new drive. The old drive is not in the > best of health. Is there a utility that would move the entire > contents including boot info so fdisk would not have to be used to > restore the boot record? The drives are of different sizes. > > tnx > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup