Copy contents of one EHD to another

[nodsirrah]

This is exactly what I want to do. A post on 03-20-08 by RandallA has all the good info but it is too old for me to post to:
http://www.satelliteguys.us/dish-ne...-how-transfer-recordings-one-ehd-another.html

Are there any updates or precautions I need to be aware of before this antique non-techie jumps in?

 

[StevenD]

You can do all that, or just use Ghost. Ghost has worked twice for me without any issues.

 

[Kirby Baker]

Sorry to the OP for asking a similar question in this thread, but your question got me thinking. Can I copy the recordings from a 211k's EHD to a 722k's EHD? I know I cant plug in the 211k drive to the 722k and have the recordings show up, but wondering if I can use this method to save my EHD recordings from my 211k that I no longer am using.

 

[nodsirrah]

Copy contents of one EHD to another.

To StevenD,
I downloaded a 30 day trial of Ghost and installed it. After trying to set up Ghost to copy everything from the 750Mb drive to the 1Tb drive I realized my PC does not see the 2 drives plugged in via USB, not being very Techie I am guessing they are not recognized because they are Ubuntu and my desktop is Windows XP.
Am I correct or is there something else going on?

 

[StevenD]

To StevenD,
I downloaded a 30 day trial of Ghost and installed it. After trying to set up Ghost to copy everything from the 750Mb drive to the 1Tb drive I realized my PC does not see the 2 drives plugged in via USB, not being very Techie I am guessing they are not recognized because they are Ubuntu and my desktop is Windows XP.
Am I correct or is there something else going on?

Ghost should absolutely see them, no matter the OS or file system. I havent done it with USB. I have a spare computer that i leave lying around and I plugged both drives into SATA ports on the motherboard and booted from a Ghost CD.

 

[KAB]

To StevenD,
I am guessing they are not recognized because they are Ubuntu and my desktop is Windows XP.
Am I correct or is there something else going on?

That's correct. Computer must have Ubuntu.

 

[cparker]

You can use an Ubuntu Live CD (no changes to your hard drive and no need to install Ubuntu on your machine) to run a program called PartImage. This will do the kinds of copying you need from one location to another.

There are some instructions here .

I've been running Ubuntu as my only operating system since 2005 so I haven't really gone through those instructions step by step myself, but they look pretty good to me. Don't be afraid to give this a try. The Live CD won't install anything on your computer unless you TELL it to install, and making a COPY of your EHD won't destroy the original contents of the EHD.

You WILL need to be able to write the image somewhere, so you should have a lot of spare room on your hard drive or another hard drive to hold the image(s).

 

[nodsirrah]

To cparker:
Thanks for the info, I tried the Ubuntu Live CD yesterday to no avail, however, I blame my weakened brain for the failure. I'll try it again in a couple days using your instructions.
Thanks again.