Drive copy problem

[Rowsdower]

I'm attempting to copy the contents (including recordings) of my HR10-250's original 250GB hard disk drive to new 750GB DB35. I'm using the "Mfs Tools Boot CD" and following the instructions from the Hinsdale page. With the source drive as the primary master and the destination drive as the primary slave, I typed the following command:

dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1024k

This was last night (almost 24 hours ago). Until this morning, the activity light was flashing. Then it stopped, but no message of any kind appeared on the screen. That was roughly 12 hours ago, and nothing has changed since then.

What should I do? Does the lack of a success message mean that the copy attempt failed, or is it possible that it succeeded? Could it still be in progress after nearly a day?

Incidentally, in searching for information regarding this issue, I stumbled upon the fact that connecting both hard disk drives on the same IDE channel slows down the process. I'll keep that in mind for the future.

[HomeUser]

Try the "Any Key" If there is no drive activity you may be done and has gone into screen saver mode or the prompt may be below the screen. pressing the shift or space bar should wake it up.

[Rowsdower]

Try the "Any Key" If there is no drive activity you may be done and has gone into screen saver mode or the prompt may be below the screen. pressing the shift or space bar should wake it up.Sorry, I should have noted that I can see the on-screen text and I've paged down to the bottom. But thanks anyway! :)

[Rowsdower]

Well, I finally concluded that it was highly unlikely that the copy remained in progress, so I shut down the program and confirmed that the attempt failed.

I then switched to the MFSLive software, placed the hard disk drives on separate IDE channels (as primary master and secondary master) and typed the following command:

backup -qTao - /dev/hda | restore -s 128 -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hdc

Within roughly two hours, the copy was complete (and my HR10-250 is again up and running). Obviously, I intend to use this method from now on.