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On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 09:02:37AM +0000, tom wrote: > I have a nice 80G 7200rpm drive from a knackered video recorder and > thought it would be nice to use it to replace my old 40G 5400 rpm drive > and use that elsewhere. Does anyone know of an easy cloning method - so > I dont have to modify all those horrible device ID's in menu.lst. > Ideally I'd just like to insert the drive, go 'CLONE' and then take out > the old drive et vouloir (for those of you that like correcting my > french - veux doesn't quite make the pun work) > Tom te tom te tom > You could have a look at CloneZilla, I believe it'll do a smaller drive to a bigger drive. It's about 100MB for the ISO. Otherwise I guess you could manually create partitions and copy the stuff over although I guess that'll be what you really want to avoid. Rob -- 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