[gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question

[Stuart Howard <stuart.g.howard@gmail.com>]

Hi

Long story short 
- power outage damages hard drive 
- under liveCD data can still be read [phew]
- comp will not boot from damaged hdd
- man runs to shop and buys new hdd plus UPS
- installed new hdd | /dev/hda
- old damaged hdd is /dev/hdb [3 partitions, hdb1 = /boot ext3, hdb2 =
/swap, hdb3 = /root reiserfs]

My question :-

I need to "copy" all from hdb to hda what would be the sugested route?

I created a set of similar partitions on new hda with same filesystems
then attempted a cp which indeed copied the data but machine refused
to boot, sensed that I had been too obvious so after much googling I
have looked into parted though with no sucess as yet.

If someone could recommend a fools guide to this process I would
appreciate it, as I am tired somewhat poorer and generally fed up.


stu

ps. Essential files from Gentoo system are backed up to another
machine though not full system and I am loathed to reinstall Gentoo
then copy over these files when I am sure there is a better way of
"restoring" complete system from one hard drive to another.
-- 
"There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand
binary, those who don't"

--Unknown

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