Knoppix to the rescue

[Kurt Wall]

On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 03:14:12PM -0600, Michael Hipp took 23 lines to write:
> Someday I'll learn ...

Famous last words.

> My pastor's daughter's laptop died with a failing hard drive. I managed 
> to get it to a state where I could get the data off it, but two 
> different commercial partition tools would not allow me to do a direct 
> copy of the 30GB hdd to the new 40GB drive. Something to do with some 
> trickery Dell is playing with the partition table. The machine would 
> never boot the copied drive.

Eew.

> So, my last hope, grab the Knoppix disk, boot it, enter 'dd if=/dev/hda 
> of=/dev/hdc' and viola 2 hours later it finishes, stick the new drive in 
> and it works perfectly. (Well, to the extend WinXP Home ever works 
> perfectly.)

dd to the rescue. Goodonya.

> Lesson learned: try the FLOSS tools first, not last.

I always floss *after* I brush. ;-)

Kurt
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