Copy HD to HD with DD

From Pro/Wiki

Download Knoppix or Digital Dolly.

1. Download and Burn the Knoppix or Digital Dolly cd.

• Digital Dolly is menu drive, may be easier for beginners.

2. Install the Snap HD as the Master Drive on the Primary Controller.

• Make sure the jumpers on the drive are set to Master

3. Install the New HD as the Slave Drive on the Primary Controller.

• Make sure the jumpers on the drive are set to Slave

4. Insert the knoppix cd and boot from the CD.

5. Open a terminal window

6. Type "sudo su"

7. Type "dmesg|grep hd"

• locate the dev id of your drives

Examples :

• hda = primary master = hitachi
• hdb = primary slave = seagate

8. Type "dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1024k count=25"

• This may take a couple of minutes, once the cursor returns, done.
• If you want to copy the full drive, delete "count=25".
• It only takes as little as 12-15 meg to boot a snap. So if you get an error any time after this you may have enough to boot the snap.

9. Now power down and re-install the hard drive into the Snap Server.

10. Power on the snap.

11. Let it initialize.

12. Now use assist or whatever method to get to the debug screen.

13. Type "co de format 10000 /reinit"

14. Reboot the server and it should format and correct the drive size.