Hi Les, So you mean I should sysprep the source windows first, before I clone? Also, I am not sure I can even get to press F8 fast enough.. :) I will try it again :) Cheers, Markus ---------------------------------------- > Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:16:26 -0500 > From: lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Copying a Hard Disk Containing Windows With Fedora > > Markus Kesaromous wrote: >> You misunderstood, and I was not clear enough >> by saying incredibly slow. > > No, I think I understand, but I don't think it is typical. > >> I meant that the clonezilla package is an ISO you >> must burn to cdrom and boot from it. > > That's the clonezilla-live variation. You can also make a bootable USB > drive or use the full version in network boot mode with it's companion > package DRBL. But you end up running the same thing in all cases. > >> Once booted, and you select to clone disk to disk or >> partition to partition (which was the case I used), it >> took it 6 hours to finish cloning a 42 GB partition, >> of which only 17.5GB were in use (according to clonezilla). > > I've always saved an image an written it back, but that sounds like it > should have taken about an hour or less. I'm not sure why it would be > so slow in your case. For a straight disk->disk I would use dd even > though that normally takes longer because you copy even the unused parts. > >> At anyrate, clonezilla is supposed to do the right thing, but I am still >> not able to boot the resulting disk. It gets as far as the windows logo >> splash screen then it reboots. > > If your hardware isn't exactly the same you need to run sysprep before > doing an image copy so it will re-detect the new hardware at bootup. > You might try hitting F8 as it boots to see if you can get the prompt > for safe mode or logging to see if you can tell what is broken. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list _________________________________________________________________ Connect and share in new ways with Windows Live. http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_sharelife_012008
