Put a new harddisk into your system, partition it as you like, and use

tar -cSp --numeric-owner --atime-preserve -f - /mnt/OLD/* | ( cd
mnt/NEW/ && tar -xSpv --atime-preserve -f - )

to copy your linux system/data/whatever. I have done so many times, this
works perfectly, e.g. also to change filesystem.

For the windows thing, dd works quite well, you should create the new
windows partitions about the same size as they are now, or you will
loose space. I am but not sure how your windows reacts, if e.g. the
bigger windows partition is not #11 anymore, afterwards.

Is your C: alone bootable? If yes, I think it should work, but no
guarantees.

hope that helps

cu
Dieter


Mark Knecht schrieb:
> Hi,
>    My system drive is making some naughty sounding noises to I'm
> thinking I'd better do something fairly quickly. I'm wondering what
> the best solution for this problem is?
> 
>    I'm really looking for an almost 1 step fix if possible. If I could
> get a new drive, put it in the box, and then clone to that drive
> directly that would be great.
> 
>    The system has both Win XP and Gentoo AMD64. The disk layout is
> shown below. I beleive the way I shoehorned XP into this machine was
> to steal the original boot partition as a small C: drive and then the
> buld of Windows is on a larger partition at the end of the drive.
> 
>    The drive is (I think) only about 1/2 partitioned so there is the
> possibility of creating a new partition to tar something to and then
> transferring that over the network to some other box for safe keeping.
> 
>    I've never done this before but would like to do something before I
> find myself having to start over from scratch.
> 
>    Thanks in advance for your inputs.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> 
> lightning ~ # fdisk -l
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1           6       48163+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda2             137        1352     9767520   83  Linux
> /dev/sda3            1353       30401   233336092+   5  Extended
> /dev/sda5            1353        6216    39070048+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda6            6217        6703     3911796   83  Linux
> /dev/sda7            6704        8163    11727418+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda8            8164        9988    14659281   83  Linux
> /dev/sda9   *        9989       10001      104391   83  Linux
> /dev/sda10          10002       10251     2008093+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/sda11          10252       14075    30716248+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda12          14076       15292     9775521    b  W95 FAT32
> lightning ~ #

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