Dear friends, Mark, fdisk showed my Windows HD had a main partition and a "hidden" partition. did you try copying the hidden partition, too? Take care Oliver p.s.: The hour and a half copying time was for two 80 Gb HDs. On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Markus Kesaromous <remotestar@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > That's great - I wonder if anyone has been able to clone > windows from a PARTITION to a new (larger) partition of another drive, > and boot it. In my case I tried > > > dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdc1 bs=128M > > then I used the ntfs util called ntfsresize: > > ntfsresize /dev/sdc1 > > which finished successfully. > I tried to boot from the new drive, but windows gets as far as the > windows logo splash screen and then reboots. > > -Markus > > ---------------------------------------- > > Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:45:11 -0400 > > From: curoli@xxxxxxxxx > > > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: Re: Copying a Hard Disk Containing Windows With Fedora > > > > > 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 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/ > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Oliver Ruebenacker, Post-Doc Researcher > > Center for Cell Analysis and Modelling > > http://www.ccam.uchc.edu/ > > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > _________________________________________________________________ > Shed those extra pounds with MSN and The Biggest Loser! > http://biggestloser.msn.com/ > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- Oliver Ruebenacker, Post-Doc Researcher Center for Cell Analysis and Modelling http://www.ccam.uchc.edu/