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Mike Hicks wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 09:09, Rodney wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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.
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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)
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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. <br>
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. <br>
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