Re: Copying a Hard Disk Containing Windows With Fedora

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.