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Hey just wanted to say thanks again for all of your help saikee! Since posting last, I have successfully DDed an 80 gig to a 40 gig (just like the first time I tried) and also just today, I actually...
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awesome! i finally got it to work! after i fixed the MBR worked like a charm. Big thanks to you saikee for helping me out, since you could figure out from looking at my posts that I knew practically...
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So far first DD command worked successfully! Even though I could have sworn in all the previous times I had tried doing this, I did infact have the exact number of cylinders for both partitions....
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Awesome, I really appreciate with all the help you are giving me saikee. One last thing. I noticed in post #55 you specifically defined the Id on the newly partitioned hda, to 7, to match hdc. I...
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Hey saikee, before I try this again, I was wondering if you think I should use the Skip argument to skip over the first two blocks so the old MBR does not DD over to the new drive. Also should I use...
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Again saikee, thanks for all the tips and advice. I totally understand why the last test did not work being that I was trying to copy the entire image. Going into this I knew absolutely nothing about...
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I am almost completely stumped. I decided to try a different method. I followed the link that you had on the top of your first post ( this thread ). In post 14 of page 1 it reads:
"...If the...
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You are right, I feel very stupid all of the sudden. It would make sense that both partition tables would have to be exactly the same in order for windows to not be confused. It totally makes sense...
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Arg! Still no luck!
I attempted it again, this time with a different 80 gig source hard drive and a freshly shreded destination hard drive of 40 gigs (attempting the same experiment, just with a...
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Thank you for the such quick reply! I am taken your suggestions into consideration and I am currently re-shreding and re attempting to DD the now-smaller partition onto the destination drive. Also in...
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First off I'd just like to say what a great little walk through you have written here saikee. It is very interesting and educational. My computer org teacher actaully sent me an email regarding this...
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