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A detailed write-up is here.
Use Knoppix LiveCD and/or GParted for resizing.

cloning ntfs partitions:

ntfsclone --save-image --output ntfs-backup.img /dev/hda1
ntfsclone --restore-image --overwrite /dev/hda1 ntfs-backup.img

cloning mbr:

dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.bak bs=512 count=1
dd if=mbr.bak of=/dev/hdb bs=512 count=1

If MBR is not copied, try this (an equivalent to fdisk /mbr):

install-mbr

If the original partition needs to be resized, run chkdsk before cloning.

sources:
http://www.mckeay.net/secure/2004/10/using_dd_to_clone_a_hd.html http://www.justlinux.com/forum/printthread.php?t=134457

Got it sucessfully overclocked to 2057Mhz @ 187Mhz FSB w/ memory running asynchronously (XP3050+?). It was doing 2200Mhz (200Mhz FSB) at low temps (116°F) but it just wouldn’t run. Maybe it’s the memory timing. Right now 187 is the highest I can run the memory at the most aggressive setting, 7T vs 8T at 188Mhz and above. Damn thing runs cooler than my old Celeron 950. Temps never go above 114°F even with a distributed computing client running in the background at 100%. Good stuff. Alpha heatsink works like a champ. The Panaflow fans are damn quiet too.

• Asus nForce2 Ultra 400…blahblahblah…dual memory channel mobo
• Barton 2500+ (1.833Ghz) –> maybe o/c to 2.200Ghz (3200+?)
• 2 x 256MB PC3200 cas 2.5
• Alpha PAL8045 520g(!) heatsink — nearly 1 pound (=545g)

• $45 USB2 aluminum external HD chassis — my rendition of the iPod, only larger and 4x the capacity (160GB). And it doesn’t play no stinkin’ music.

The new version (2.6) of movabletype is out. I just finished upgrading. Big tip for windows users: remember that all the new .cgi files need to have the path-to-perl updated. I was running into 500 Internal Server errors until I remembered that little detail.

I also found out that my video card does indeed have the better DAC as I looked in the properties today. That was cool.

Lots of new and exciting (mundane?) things happening. We’ve decided to have a maxout day next-next saturday so Edwin and Kevin better be ready ;-). Maybe it’ll be a double plate day. (You better get crackin’ lunatic68).

I watched the first season of Friends yesterday. I believe it was 24 episodes in 12 hours. I’m beginning understand more of the deeper character issues. Maybe ½ of season two today? Haha.

I also installed a new video card yesterday — I should’ve done more research first. It was kind of an impulse buy. I got the Radeon 7000 (basically a VE). The 7500 has a better RAMDAC (350Mhz v. 300Mhz in the 7000). At least it was cheap — $41 w/ S/H. But anyways, the video playback is much better. All of the Radeon series have good hardware decoders so the picture quality is much better than the Matrox G200 I had previous. The G200 didn’t do so well with up/down sampling so many times the picture was quite pixelated.

Oh, finally I suppose, the AAA formal is happening this weekend. I think it’ll turn out to be quite interesting with the cast of characters that are going. Perhaps too interesting.