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Transferring partitions from one Amiga HDD to another

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     W ell, you will probably ask - whats the potential problem ? Yes, no problem if there are only Amiga partitions on source drive, but what if there are also Linux and Mac partitions?      In this case you will probably experience problems how to transfer this partitions. I found the solution.      First of all,  create partitions on new drive using Amiga HD toolbox to make the RDB  partition table structure and decide what partitions will be used for Linux and/or Mac. Remember - you have to reserve two partitions for Linux - one main (root) partition and other swap partition.  After that you will have to save changes and exit HDtoolbox , power off and take  hard drives off the Amiga and connect both - source and destination drives to Linux system. I used a PC with Ubuntu live CD boot disk.Boot into Linux, open Gparted  and and check that both hard drives - source and target are available. You will see Amiga partitions as Unknown, but Linux partition and Mac will be