Mike Hicks wrote: >On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 09:09, Rodney wrote: > > >>My new Maxtor master hd is dying. A new one is coming in the mail and >>"oh joy!" I get to 1) save data to the slave drive 2)ground myself and >>swap hd 3)format hd and install Win98 and all drivers and software and >>updates (THAT is a PAIN in the ass!). The problem is that when I do >>that I'll lose LILO and therefore access to the slave drive/Linux. >> >> > >Are you getting a replacement that is the same make/model? If so, the >drive should be the same size, so you can do the "Ghetto Ghost" trick of >something like > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=64k > >assuming that you have the old drive as master, and the new one as >slave.. > >This *should* also work if the new drive is bigger (but you'd only want >to do this if there is only a small difference in size -- otherwise you >could be wasting valuable space) > > > That brings up another question I've been wondering about... Maxtor is sending me a replacement drive because the one I bought is defective (Windows was marking bad sectors everytime I'd boot up and at this point I can't even get to Win98). There's software that comes with the drive that says that it will copy all of one hd to another but I'm wondering if I should do that. Will it copy corrupted files? Will it copy data on from bad sectors in such a way that they will show up on the new hd as bad? I suppose I should try it and see what happens. I can always low-level format it - that only takes about 16 hours on this 60 gig hd. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030606/1d53a2cc/attachment.html