Looking for a Hard Drive Copy utility

[nevamore]

Here's the scenario:

I have an older Windows 2000 multirole server here at work. Among other things it is our printserver that has 17 print queues to several different types of network printers. The boot disk is a SCSI drive and has developed a bad block(s) causing it to BSOD quite a bit lately.

Back in the day I used Norton Ghost to to make a direct copy of IDE drives. Currently I don't have any utilities to make a copy of a (LVD) SCSI drive. It doesn't matter if I replace it with SCSI or IDE but I hope to avoid reinstalling the OS and configuring all of the functions if I could just copy the drive.

I already tried to install a second drive and have the OS miror the drive but it fails immediately.

Please recommend a utility (free or pay doesn't matter) that would give me a good shot at copying the failing drive info to a new drive.

 

[QwertyJuan]

will ghost not do scsi??

Also, I had this happen to me(only with IDE) and I had to boot into DOS, run a chkdsk, it fixed the errors, THEN I quickly ghosted it... ghost would stop when it hit an error.

QJ

 

[Spiff]

Didn't the Ultra2 drives come with install/setup software? Usually the OEM's provide a crippled copy of Ontrack's Disk Manager or something similar that includes a copy utility.

 

[unhappy_mage]

I'd suggest replacing it with a similar capacity scsi disk, and then use a linux boot cd to `dd` from one to the other. That's what I'd do, anyways.

 

[S1nF1xx]

PM djnes, he's a Ghost fanatic. If Ghost can do it I'm sure he'd know.

 

[nevamore]

I'd suggest replacing it with a similar capacity scsi disk, and then use a linux boot cd to `dd` from one to the other. That's what I'd do, anyways.

Is this a straightforward task? Where do I get a Linux boot disk?

Also, does the latest version of Ghost use a DOS type option for copying drives?

 

[unhappy_mage]

It's relatively straightforward if you know what you're doing and Linux supports your scsi card (what is it?).

A good bootdisk to try is knoppix. Burn the ISO file to a cd (look for instructions or ask if you're not sure how to do this), and boot from it. It'll take a while. Be sure that you have both disks plugged in at this point, and set to different scsi IDs.

Start a "konsole" (it's at the bottom of the screen) and type this: fdisk -l
This will print something like this:

Disk /dev/hdb: 18.0 GB, 18042716160 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2193 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1               1        2193    17615241   83  Linux

Disk /dev/hde: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hde1               1       14593   117218241   fd  Linux raid autodetect

except instead of "/dev/hdb", "/dev/hdb1", etc, it'll probably have "/dev/sda" and "/dev/sda1".

So, figure out which disk is old and which is new. Get really sure before you do the next step. Look at the partition tables and the disk sizes. You'll get something like OLDDISK="sda" and NEWDISK="sdf". Don't just use my values, figure out which is which.

Sure? Okay, now to transfer the data. Run this:
dd if=/dev/OLDDISK of=/dev/NEWDISK bs=8k
and wait a while. This will copy everything, boot sector, partitions, whatever's on the old one to the new one.

When that finished, go to the K menu and turn off the machine nicely. Swap the new disk to be the ID of the old disk, take the old one out, cross your fingers, and boot.

HTH

 

[nevamore]

I have the knoppix .iso. What is the process to getting it on a bootable CD?

 

[lukek]

just burn the iso using nero or whatever program u have.....burn from saved image

 

[unhappy_mage]

http://www.petri.co.il/how_to_write_iso_files_to_cd.htm