Howdy..
Originally posted here by Und3ertak3r
And finaly.. which method worked?
The method that got the job done was to boot up with Phlak, on a thumbdrive, and then i put Sirdice's idea to work.
Originally posted here by SirDice
If you use it as something like dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1 it'll copy hda1 (first partition on the first disk) byte for byte to the other disk.. So it'll include everything..
I had to do a little bit of fiddling, only because the first attempt did not go as planned, it cloned everything, but it got corrupted somewhere during the transplant.

Once i had recovered the data and safely got it moved to the fresh hard-drive, i had a look at what House929 suggested...
Originally posted here by House929
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/hdclonefree.html << freeware
you could also do ufsdump /ufsrestore
This program is very similar to Nortan Ghost, only it's a little more user friendly and easy to use and is not a resource hog, the only problem is that they don't tell you that with the free version you cannot use a CDimage to transplant from one hard disk to the next.

You need to purchase the professional edition to do that. But i purchased it anyhow, as i was extremely curious about it, and i am very happy with what i paid for it.

Originally posted here by Und3ertak3r And to F2B sry if I infered an insult.. I felt that some readers would be mislead by the context.. thanks for the explaination..
It's all good Undies. I was fairly tired when i made the response, maybe i could of replied a little differently ..

cheers
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