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ok i'll try this one out.

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@jlliagre
though i can call up Daetwyler to ask for a password? but on what password would i ask them of?

root password.

Hi jlliagre,

Until now i got no response from Daetwyler,

Anyways i manage to log-in as a single user with "boot -s", like what you've told me.
i wrote:
# dd if=/dev/sd0 of=/dev/sd1 bs=256k
message this:
dd: open: /dev/sd0: No such file or directory

next i did copy from partition to partition:
# dd if=/dev/sd0g of=/dev/sd1g bs=256k
dd: write: Error 0
8189+0 records in
8189+0 records out
i did the same thing on sd0a,sd0d,sd0e,sd0f,sd0g,sd0h, but when i boot it with the new hard drive, it says
sd0: corrupt label - bad geometry

when i tried the dd command on another target drive.
# dd if=/dev/sd0a of=/dev/sd1a
sd1a: Error for command 'write'
sd1a: Error level: Fatal
sd1a: Block 87328, Absolute Block: 87398
sd1a: Sense key: Hardware Error
sd1a: Vendor 'SEAGATE' error code: 0x3

tried another drive:
# dd if=/dev/sd0a of=/dev/sd1a bs=256k
sd1a: Error for command 'read'
sd1a: Error level: Retryable
sd1a: Block 0, Absolute Block: 65
sd1a: Sense key: Media Error
sd1a: Vendor 'SEAGATE' error code: 0x11

i hope you can shed some answers...thanks

Is the destination disk partitioned exactly like the source one ? Before copying the slices content, you need to have partitions ids and size matching exactly (or the destination slices being larger than the source ones).

The partition is the same, because the target drive has the same content before it was corrupted. The size i think is bigger than the master.

The disk size discrepancy might be the root cause of the booting issue:

Code:

sd0: corrupt label - bad geometry

how about this one, why can't i clone the entire thing?
can i reformat my other hard drive? since they are giving me an error