I am truly puzzled by these reports of success!! I just finished cloning /dev/sda1 to /dev/sdc1 sdc1 is larger, so I did ntfsresize. So far so good. Thing is, sdc1 is a USB HD (with bios support). Even though bios is configured to boot off of USB first, CD next and built-in HD last, It still boots off of the built in drive. Only way I can force it to boot off of USB HD is to get into bios and disable the built-in drive (set to not-installed) and reboot - then bios will boot off of the USB drive. However, windows still will not boot! It gives me a splash screen of windows logo, then reboots. Is there something in windows that insists that the drive be on same controller as it was when first installed? Markus ---------------------------------------- > Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 09:13:38 +0900 > From: debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Copying a Hard Disk Containing Windows With Fedora > > 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! > > It probably will work[1], but I would worry that the disks' gemoetries > may differ a little. Not all 120Gbyte drives have the same number of > cylinders. > > I copy Windows immmoderately often. My preferred tool is a bootable CD > including ntfs-progs - think the latest Knoppix. > > ntfsclone does an excellent job of copying a partition. > If you need to change a partition's size, there's ntfsresize. > > I'd probably copy (extremely carefully) the first sector with dd, then > use hdparm to make Linux reread the partition table on the target drive. > > To be safe, I might resize the source partition(s) to a little smaller > using ntfsresize. > > Then copy with ntfsclone, and resize again at the destination to make > sure the data fit snugly into the partition. > > [1] I used dd to copy an 80 Gbyte drive to a 320 Gbyte drive. I'm happy > with the results, but then if it went wrong I know what to try next. It > would not work if the target drive was even one sector shorter. > Depending on partitioning. > > > > -- > > Cheers > John > > -- spambait > 1aaaaaaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Z1aaaaaaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- Advice > http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 > > You cannot reply off-list:-) > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list _________________________________________________________________ Need to know the score, the latest news, or you need your Hotmail®-get your "fix". http://www.msnmobilefix.com/Default.aspx
