Dear friends,
It worked! The old Windoze system seems to be happily running from
the new hard disk now. Copying took a little bit more than an hour and
a half.
The actual command was
dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda
Thanks for the advice.
Take care
Oliver
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker <curoli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> 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!
>
> Take care
> Oliver
>
> --
> Oliver Ruebenacker, Post-Doc Researcher
> Center for Cell Analysis and Modelling
> http://www.ccam.uchc.edu/
>
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Oliver Ruebenacker, Post-Doc Researcher
Center for Cell Analysis and Modelling
http://www.ccam.uchc.edu/
