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"Jason Witcher" <jaydoubleyou@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 16/12/2007, Jason Witcher <jaydoubleyou@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I have a Maxtor 160GB drive in my main machine, but it was getting a bit >> flaky - a couple of times it has come up with the 'disk boot error insert >> system disc' error (which a reboot usually sorts, but I want to sort it >> before it dies permanently!), so I've bought another 160GB drive and am >> using DD to copy the original contents over. >> My question is, how long should it take to copy a full disk? I'm doing it >> from a terminal window in a Helix boot CD, using the command dd if=/dev/hda >> of=/dev/hdd bs=1024 (where hda is the original disk, hdd the new one), with >> the original as master on the 1st IDE channel and the new disk as slave on >> the 2nd (I would have made it the master but can't reach the jumper on the >> DVD writer without dismantling the whole PC!). The PC has an AMD Athlon 64 >> bit 2GHz processor and 1GB of memory. >> It's been going for about 4 hours so far with the CPU bar at the bottom >> maxed out so I'm starting to wonder if perhaps the process has hung (the PC >> itself is fine, being a Live CD it's slow, but the mouse moves around OK). >> Saying that, I'll probably post this and it'll pop up saying it's >> finished... >> Jason >> > > OK, ignore the above, it's finished - the answer is about 4 and a half hours > if anyone's considering doing the same thing! It's quicker if you specify a block size of 32256 (one track=63 sectors) Anthony -- Anthony Williams Just Software Solutions Ltd - http://www.justsoftwaresolutions.co.uk Registered in England, Company Number 5478976. Registered Office: 15 Carrallack Mews, St Just, Cornwall, TR19 7UL -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html