cloning a drive

[JD Runyan]

On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 15:18, Marvin GodfatherofSoul Bellamy wrote:
> This is a Windows/DOS question, but does anyone know of a freeware 
> application for doing a sort of rawrite of one partition's (drive 
> letter's) data to another?  Here's some background.  I had an unused 1.2 
> GB drive as well as my 15GB drive.  I thought it would be neat to run 
> Win98 and my "/" partition on this 1.2 drive.  Like a fool, I thought 
> 400MB would be enough space for the Win98 partition.  Well, it's 
> definitely enough space, but I didn't account for all of the programs 
> that default to c:windowstemp for extracting compresses files (out of 
> my control) or simply assume I wanted to install to the c: drive.
> 
> I'm writing this off as a dumb experiment, so I'd like to just copy my 
> Windows installation to the good drive and pitch the smaller one.
I would download cygwin from www.cygwin.com, and use dd
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Jason D. Runyan
USDA NITC KC
Mid-Range Systems