[PLUG] Copying Hard Disk to Hard Disk
Richard C. Steffens
rsteff at comcast.net
Sat Apr 15 18:52:42 UTC 2006
m0gely wrote:
> When I said copy the files over, I didn't mean dd, I meant 'copy' as in
> the command or of the drag-and-drop persuasion.
So, when I boot up Knoppix, which starts up KDE and has icons for each
connected hard drive, should I have opened those up and dragged the
contents of the smaller one to the other?
> You will be better off
> to start over and do it the way I said. It would take all of minutes to
> do outside of the copying of the 4GB of data.
To start over:
1. Delete all the stuff I put on the large drive with dd.
2. Boot up with Knoppix and proceed with the copy as described, above.
Right?
> You're sorely over complicating this matter.
Simpler is better. Thanks for the advice.
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Regards,
Dick Steffens
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