App to copy drive to drive - for size upgrade?

[Livin]

i want to copy my 250gb drive to a new 300gb drive i just got and install it in my xbox...

ftp is out of the question since i do not have enough extra space on my pc's drive.

any apps that i can use to copy the old drive to the new drive... via xbox2pc or within same pc hdd2hdd?

thanks for the help everyone!

[Loto_Bak]

if you have some *nix knowledge you can use xboxhdm linux livecd.

partition your disk as needed
boot the live cd
exit the script thing
create two directories
mkdir /hdd1f
mkdir /hdd2f


then you need to mount both hdds. idealy put the hdds on seprate ide chains (master channel 1 master channel 2) for best performance.

mount /dev/hda55 /hdd1f
mount /dev/hdc55 /hdd2f

i think its partition 55, use
ls /hdd1f

to make sure it mounted to correct partition. if not use
ls /dev/hda*

and trial and error till you find it.
you can also find c/e/g drive this way and duplicate the above to copy it as well.

now that both hdds are mounted simply copy the files directly.
cp -r /hdd1f/ /hdd2f/


for completeness if you are ever wanting to mirror a disk exactly (same size) use dd as below
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc


also regarding your 300gig'er have you addressed the ~250gig / partition limit? either use a f/g bios or use xbpartitioner with 32k clusters

[Livin]

loto,
good info... i was thinking about allowing my x3 chip partition the new 300gb drive and then mounting them both in a pc and copy over the data, partition by partition.

sound like a plan?

[Loto_Bak]

yup
i dont know how x3 handles your 300giger
if they dont document it bug em @ #teamxecuter on efnet