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
