I pretty much maxed out my 500 GB hard-drive, and I am looking to a buy a new Hard-drive., probably a TB or 2, it doesn't matter. But what does matter is, How do I transfer EVERYTHING on my current hard-drive onto a different hard-drive exactly the way it is, Do I just Copy and paste my Hard-drive folder onto the new one, or what?
Do you have multiple partitions?
You mean like sections to place my hard-drives, yeah.
By a partition he means part of your hard drive with a second operating system.
Get a linux boot disk and boot it. [I]Don't[/I] mount either drive. Run this:
[code]dd if=/dev/(old hard drive) of=/dev/(new hard drive)[/code]
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Assuming you just have the one drive
I don't believe I have Multiple partitions, if I'm understanding the terminology correctly, I only have one hard-drive right now, haven't gotten the second.
[QUOTE=Jeremyc428;17390489]I don't believe I have Multiple partitions, if I'm understanding the terminology correctly, I only have one hard-drive right now, haven't gotten the second.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_partitioning[/url]
When you get your new hard drive, use [url=http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/index.shtml]this[/url] to copy all of the 1s and 0s from your old to your new.
Why not just use both?
[QUOTE=jmazouri;17396984]Why not just use both?[/QUOTE]
It could very well just be a laptop. Besides, there are plenty of reasons to just keep a single hard drive around, and simplicity is merely one of them.
I've had tons of issues with cloning a boot drive and getting Windows not to flip a shit if I keep the old drive in the PC.
But I recommend you try something like gparted to make a copy. It may work just fine for you.
EDIT: Not sure how I remembered this post a day later, but I mean Clonezilla, not gparted. I'm a moron.
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