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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Gavilan on November 09, 2005, 07:31:31 PM

Title: How to clone my hdd
Post by: Gavilan on November 09, 2005, 07:31:31 PM

Hi there!
I have my Amiga 1200 HDD (850 MB), full of things.
Im about to moving into a bigger one (maybe 20 gigas)
I have OS 3.1 roms, and 3.9 system
The actual HDD has 3 partitions : hd0 (workbench), hd1 (stuff) and hd2 (games)

My question is: how could i "clone" my 850 MB into the bigger one, so i just unplug the smallest, put the new one, swithc my machine on, and have exactly the same stuff??

Is it possible doing this just copying everything using DOpus, and then changing the names of the partitions on the new hdd? (i put as slave, and partitioned just like the samll one, but instead of hd0,hd1 and hd2, i have dh0, dh1 and dh2). I dont want to mess up thing with Assign or things like that, just need to clone the disc

Thanks in advance

Sebastian

Title: Re: How to clone my hdd
Post by: adolescent on November 09, 2005, 08:02:17 PM

Yes, it's possible to just copy the data over to the new drive, and then rename the partitions once the old drive is gone.  I did this recently going from a 60GB to 120GB drive.  I used the shell command COPY while booted without Workbench (to ensure there were no files in use, although I don't know if it was necessary).  IIRC, the arguments were something like C:COPY SYS: SYS_NEW: ALL CLONE.

Title: Re: How to clone my hdd
Post by: Gavilan on November 10, 2005, 03:31:44 AM

Lovely!
In 10 minutes i re-built a complete "brand new Amiga"...

i forgot why i love this machine so so much...

thanks!!!

Title: Re: How to clone my hdd
Post by: leirbag28 on November 10, 2005, 03:49:36 AM

Or you can plug the Drive into a PC with WinUAE and copy the files of the HD to a Windows folder, and then burn it!   now you can copy them back to your Amiga..and you will have a CD back up as well :-)

Title: Re: How to clone my hdd
Post by: orange on November 10, 2005, 08:31:19 AM

if you decide to boot without WB, don't forget to first run  setpatch or idefix or whatever is needed for large partitions.

Title: Re: How to clone my hdd
Post by: Piru on November 10, 2005, 08:37:29 AM

@leirbag28

You lose file attributes that way, though.

Title: Re: How to clone my hdd
Post by: Rod_cl on November 10, 2005, 09:31:21 PM

Gavilan:
send me an email, i'm having problems with the A4000 HD.
Validating disk error.
Saludos

Rod

Title: Re: How to clone my hdd
Post by: fackamato_ on November 11, 2005, 01:03:15 AM

Hi,

Just wondering, is there a difference using dopus for the copying, compared to the copy command (all clone) ?

Title: Re: How to clone my hdd
Post by: dawiper on November 11, 2005, 01:06:35 AM

Afaik, the only difference is dopus being easier to use.