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Originally Posted by blue68f100
Good info.
I was going to use dd for the cloning, mainly because it's free. Not everyone has a copy of ghost.
Good to know that I only need the 1st partition.
But if you have a working drive, it is easy to transfer the OS...
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I was shooting for more the "I bought a 4500 from xxxx but without drives" type of problem than someone actually having at least one working disk. The added bonus is that after you do this once, you have a backup that you can use to reload from scratch in case for some freaky reason all four drives fail at once.
I tried it the easy way too--and it did work as long as the new drive you were actually putting in was blank (found that if the drive, in this case a 160 GB out of one of my 4100's, did wierd things when I stuck it in for the process). I didn't go far enough with it to see if it automatically takes advantage of larger drives or not.
You also get a truly *factory default* setup that you don't necessarily get with the easy way. I'm wondering if you can swap drives one at a time and retain all your data (if you had it loaded up). Granted it might take 2 or 3 days to get all four drives swapped...
Another option besides Ghost you might could try is
G4U though I haven't actually tried it yet.
Any option besides paying Adaptec $600 for a new drive with the OS loaded is a good thing™.