max bianco wrote:
I need to copy the hard disk of a Windows computer to a new hard
disk of equal size. I was thinking of connecting both drives
(SATA/150), booting from the Fedora 8 Rescue Disk and then do
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
in hope that after that, the second hard disk can be used in place
of the first one (including booting Windows, of course).
Does this work? Thanks!
Does the fedora rescue disc support reading and writing to ntfs?
I would make sure it does or its all going to be a waste of time.
That doesn't matter with this approach. You are copying raw disk
sectors which will bring along whatever filesystem and boot sectors
happen to reside on them. What matters are that the disks have the same
number of sectors and that the hardware where the system needs to boot
is identical (if is a replacement disk for the same machine, that's
obviously not an issue).
The disks are probably named sdX instead of hdX though.
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Les Mikesell
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