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Title: Clone an Amiga formatted drive?
Post by: mindprober on November 21, 2008, 05:43:10 PM

I would like to clone an Amiga formatted and partitoned 40GB hard drive to another drive of the same size. I am trying to use Ghost v8 to do this because I was always under the impression that it didn't care what format the media was and would just do a bit-for-bit copy. Ghost does not allow me to select the Amiga formatted drive, however.

I checked Ghost's options also. Nothing seems to apply to this problem.

Is there another drive cloning app out there that could be used for this purpose?

Thanks.

Title: Re: Clone an Amiga formatted drive?
Post by: Piru on November 21, 2008, 05:50:54 PM

dd (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix))

Boot with linux livecd of your choice. Have both drives connected.

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dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc

NOTE: This assumes the source is the master on the first channel and the destination master on the 2nd channel. dd will happily copy the empty HD over the filled one, so make sure you get the source and destination right.

Title: Re: Clone an Amiga formatted drive?
Post by: orange on November 21, 2008, 06:06:05 PM

I have heard of some 'Acronis True Image' that is similar to Ghost, maybe it can do the trick. or look for something similar on: [color=ffff00]Hiren's boot CD[/color]


BTW, there seems to be an Amiga version of dd, too, on Aminet (two of them, one is called dd and the other dcp). Has anyone tried that first one (also with >4Gb)?
I used dcp and it seems nice, at least with small disks.

Title: Re: Clone an Amiga formatted drive?
Post by: mindprober on November 21, 2008, 06:42:18 PM

I currently have both drives connected via IDE-USB adapters as I do not have a machine with available IDE channels at the moment. Will the drives still be visible to dd?

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Piru wrote:
dd (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix))

Boot with linux livecd of your choice. Have both drives connected.

Code: [Select]

dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc

NOTE: This assumes the source is the master on the first channel and the destination master on the 2nd channel. dd will happily copy the empty HD over the filled one, so make sure you get the source and destination right.

Title: Re: Clone an Amiga formatted drive?
Post by: mindprober on November 21, 2008, 06:48:48 PM

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orange wrote:
I have heard of some 'Acronis True Image' that is similar to Ghost, maybe it can do the trick. or look for something similar on: [color=ffff00]Hiren's boot CD[/color]

I will give this a try.

Title: Re: Clone an Amiga formatted drive?
Post by: Piru on November 21, 2008, 07:20:19 PM

@jdryyz

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I currently have both drives connected via IDE-USB adapters as I do not have a machine with available IDE channels at the moment. Will the drives still be visible to dd?

If the drives are visible to the OS. For example Knoppix (http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html) should work with most systems.