Out of my Coma

[Fonspa]

Hey,

Is there a simple way to copy the hard drive? I don't want to risk the destruction of the original.

Best Regards,
Fonspa

[woodsy]

Wow. Didn't think my search on Zynna would turn anything recent up.

Fonspa, do you have the physical drive? Not sure how much you know of linux, or if you have a linux box handy, but if you do it's a pretty simple set of commands. Attach the drive to the box as a secondary drive. Boot into linux from the primary. If the drive Zynna is on is alive it should auto mount.

Use the "df" command to see the mount point of your partitions, they will be something like /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 etc. You'll have to determine which is the right partition from the mount column. You typically want to dupe the entire drive (unless you don't!) so remove the number after to get the drive. Then you can do a dd

dd if=/dev/location/ofDrive of=/location/of/drive/image

"if" is the drive location "of" is the output file. For example if the drive is the second drive on the machine it will probably be

dd if=/dev/sdb of=/home/fonspa/drive_copy.img

Should copy bit by bit over. Then you can gzip it

gzip ~/drive_copy.img

This will create drive_copy.img.gz It will take a while depending on how big the drive is.

I'd love to get a copy of that, seeing as how no one else has been able to resurrect Zynna I wouldn't mind taking a shot.

I would be glad to even shell into a linux machine and do the grunt work with the drive. Let me know.