On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 00:49 +0200, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > On 6/5/05, Steve Snyder <swsnyder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > When FC4 is released I'm going to replace my hard disk in the course of > > upgrading my OS. Moving/upgrading the ext3/ReiserFS partitions is easy, > > but I also have Win2K installed on one of the partitions. > > > > Is there a way using Linux utilities to copy the NTFS partion from one > > hard disk to another? The partition size will stay the same but the > > postion on the disks will be different. > > I've never done this, but you could try taking a binary snapshot of > the partition using "dd", then creating the corresponding partition on > the target disk and restoring the snapshot using "dd" again, something > like: > > 0. NTFS partition to be copied is /dev/hdaX > 1. dd if=/dev/hdaX of=/path/to/snapshot > 2. fdisk the new disk NTFS target partition as /dev/hdaY > 3. dd if=/path/to/snapshot of=/dev/hdaY > It probably would be better to use ghost 4 linux (g4l) to copy the ntfs partition. Using dd will do an exact binary copy byte-for-byte of the partition but may not be what is wanted (and may not boot afterward)
