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+ <B>David W. Hodgins</B>
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+ <I>Mon Nov 14 18:58:51 CET 2011</I>
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+<PRE>On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 05:00:16 -0500, Juergen Harms &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">Juergen.Harms at unige.ch</A>&gt; wrote:
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+&gt;<i> Before going to dd, I will try partitioning my new disk with gparted (or
+</I>&gt;<i> the Mageia ISO) - do all the disk layout re-arrangements I can think of
+</I>&gt;<i> and than copy individual file-systems with tar - should be substantially
+</I>&gt;<i> faster since it skips all unused space - for the windows partition that
+</I>&gt;<i> would give
+</I>&gt;<i> cd /media/windows ; tar cf - . | (cd /&lt;new-windows-path&gt;; tar xf -)
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+If you only had linux, and used labels on the filesystems, and in
+grub, that would be fine.
+
+Because you have w7 installed, the mbr should be copied too. As the
+drive is failing, you should assume you will only get one chance to
+copy it.
+
+I would install the new drive, boot from any live/rescue cd/dvd,
+and use dd to copy the drive
+dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=64M
+Of course, make sure the device letters are correct. :-)
+
+Then shutdown the system, remove the old drive (Never boot into w7
+with both drives connected, after the copy). and move the connector
+for the new drive to the same connector the old drive used.
+
+Then, confirm all file systems are bootable. After that, you can
+resize existing partitions, or add new ones, as desired. Note that
+you will have to resize the extended partition, if present, before
+resizing or adding new logical partitions. The gparted tool is
+probably the best for that.
+
+Regards, Dave Hodgins
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