I would say if you are just interested in copying your / partition would be to install and mount the drive, copy everything over from your / partition to the new drive, and then perform a chroot on it and update /etc/fstab. Not sure how that would work though as I have never done it myself....... Hope that helps. Stephen <div>On 10/16/06, Amit Prahesh <<a href="mailto:amit.prahesh@gmail.com">amit.prahesh@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hello, my machine always had a 40G PATA hard disk unto which I installed Kubuntu 6.06, taking all the disk (one little ext3 partition for /boot, the swap partition, and the rest of the disk is an XFS partition for /). Now, I have a new 80G SATA disk that I'd like to use as the system disk (of course, the motherboard has support). What's the easiest way to transfer everything from the IDE disk to the SATA (while keeping everything)? Amit. -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>