[Expert] Duplicating a drive

[D. R. Evans]

I am getting SMART errors from a drive, so I want to do the following:

1. Install a larger drive as hdb
2. Duplicate hda (which is running Mandrake 9.2) on to hdb
3. Take out hda (and throw it away) and move the drive that was hdb into
the hda slot.
4. Boot and have *everything* work as if I had done nothing.

Is there a way to do step 2?

And for bonus points: what is that way? :-)

As you can probably imagine, there's some urgency to this. Installing brand
new (more recent) OS on this machine is not very feasible, because
duplicating the behaviour (configuration, etc.) of all the software would
cause a lot more downtime; so I can do that only if there is no way to
perform the steps described above.

  Doc

PS I think that this is the kind of thing that Norton "Ghost" does, but
according to their web site that's a Windows-only solution.

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