Installing Hard Drives

[SORB2008]

Hi,

I have dual boot hard drives one with FC4 as my default and another
with Windows 2000. I want to install new larger hard drives for each
OS and copy each drive over to a new larger drive . Would anyone
know how to do this task using FC4 and Windows 2000 ?

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !!

You can use PartImage or Ghost4Linux. There are a few constraints though. Partition structure of old and new disks must be same. Read instruction carefully before doing anything.

[SORB2008]

I thought I was posting into Installlation Forum and not Fedora.
Thanks I will check each one out !!

When you say " Partition Structures". I wouldn't be seting up partitions just two seperate disks one with FC4 and one with WIN2000. Do you mean spliting
up a hard disk ?

Thanks again I will check these two out.

[devils casper]

You have to create partitions in New HD as are in old HD.
Check the output of fdisk -l command in Fedora. It will list all existing partitions.

[SORB2008]

Ok Thanks...

I have space in my PC for the new HD.
Do I plug it in and boot my PC with this blank HD.
My PC is setup where the FC4 screen comes up and I can choose
FC4 or win2000. Do I use FC4 or win2000 and will it even boot up
with the new drive ?

Thanks Again !!

[devils casper]

You have to create an image of existing partitions and install those on new HD.
Execute fdisk -l command in Terminal/Konsole and post output here.

su -
fdisk -l

[SORB2008]

Here is my output from fdisk -1. Should I plug in the new HD and boot up
and select OS to format the drive ? Thanks ....

[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -1
fdisk: invalid option -- 1

Usage: fdisk [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK Change partition table
fdisk -l [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK List partition table(s)
fdisk -s PARTITION Give partition size(s) in blocks
fdisk -v Give fdisk version
Here DISK is something like /dev/hdb or /dev/sda
and PARTITION is something like /dev/hda7
-u: give Start and End in sector (instead of cylinder) units
-b 2048: (for certain MO disks) use 2048-byte sectors
[root@localhost ~]#

[devils casper]

-l <-- Its small L not 1.

su -
fdisk -l

[SORB2008]

OK ..

root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 20.0 GB, 20020396032 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2434 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1275 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 1276 2433 9301635 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)

Disk /dev/hdb: 10.2 GB, 10254827520 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1246 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 14 1246 9904072+ 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/sda: 128 MB, 128974848 bytes
16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 492 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 492 125936 e W95 FAT16 (LBA)
[root@localhost ~]#

[devils casper]

You have created LVM in Fedora and I have to check if PartImage or Ghost4Linux support LVM. I will let you know soon.