<div>I usually use DD to copy the old drive to the new one, then resize my partitions with qt parted. Both available off the sysrescuecd from <font color="#008000" size="2"><a href="http://www.sysresccd.org">www.sysresccd.org
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<div><font color="#008000" size="2">-Mike</font></div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/28/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Russ Schneider</b> <<a href="mailto:russ@sugapablo.com">russ@sugapablo.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">When I woke up this morning and headed toward my machine, it was running<br>much louder than usual.<br><br>
My only guess, is that it's the hard drives spinning louder. I shut down<br>the machine for a moment and started it back up and it sounded like they<br>were having trouble starting their spin up (again, I'm assuming this is a
<br>hard drive spinning noise as I can't think of what other moving parts are<br>in the machine and it doesn't sound like the CD-ROM at all).<br><br>Is this a sign of impending hard drive doom? What would be the best<br>
course of action?<br><br>Also, if I buy 2 new HDs, is there a way to completely copy everything<br>from one HD to another, meaning I could just pop the newly created drivs<br>in and the OS and everything would simply work in an identical fashion?
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