[PLUG] Dual Boot Troubles

Jason Barnett jason.barnett71 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 17 06:41:27 UTC 2011


I have heard similar about them but I have never had a problem with using
them with dd.  I think they don't work well for data recovery or forensics,
but that is a much lower level than what you are using it for.  Should work
fine.

Good luck,
 Jason

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Richard C. Steffens <rsteff at comcast.net>wrote:

> On 09/16/2011 08:56 PM, Jason Barnett wrote:
> > Yes, that process should work, but there is an easier way. If you have
> > access to a IDE to USB adapter (I have one I would be willing to loan)
> just
> > swap out the drives, boot from a live linux CD then use dd to copy
> straight
> > from the old laptop drive to the new one.  Once done, use gparted to
> resize
> > the partitions to take advantage of the larger hard drive and it should
> be
> > fine.
>
> Yes. I do have one of those. I'll give that a try tomorrow afternoon.
>
> I thought those USB drive devices didn't expose everything. I'll see
> when I try it.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
>
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