SomeoneE1se Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 Ok lets see if I have this right... I'm trying to fix this computer for one of my friends, I was updating and installing a new AV on one of their computers and from the other one I heard the death rattle of a dieing hard drive. Then a few days later they called me up again because the computer became DOG SHIT SLOW, everything worked, but it was SLOW, things in memory came up quick but anything else DOG SHIT SLOW (it was very slow) So I'm pretty sure the HD is about to die. Now if this was my computer I would just backup what I needed and drop in a new HD and install the OS from scratch... They don't want me to do this, so I'm thinking pop in a linux live CD and dd if=/dev/oldharddrive of=/dev/newharddrive there would be a size difference in the HD of gigs this is not the best way to do it? and keep the OS working (XPro SP2) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oberon Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 What about ghosting the old drive before it completely dies and transferring the image to a new drive? Wouldn't be an install from scratch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted February 22, 2007 Author Share Posted February 22, 2007 I would but I don't want to have to go out is buy Ghost, or pirate it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oberon Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 Fair enough, though there are free drive imaging utilities out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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