Markus Kesaromous wrote: > > > You misunderstood, and I was not clear enough > by saying incredibly slow. > > I meant that the clonezilla package is an ISO you > must burn to cdrom and boot from it. > 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). > > The speed of disk write that I tested using dd is about > 25 megabytes/s. I got this when I first used dd to clone > one partition to the other: > time dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdc1 bs=128M > > I chose 128M blocksize to minimize number of calls to read/write > > System has 2GB of of ram. Even while the dd was running, I had plenty of > free ram. The program top showd the process dd with RSS of 128M > which means it was not swapping out/in any pages of the dd io buffer. > > 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. > > -Markus > > Windows doesn't boot from a drive it detects as removable. Apparently it can be made to do so but the process was complex enough that I haven't tried to do it. Google will give you lots of ideas. Robert McBroom -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Copying-a-Hard-Disk-Containing-Windows-With-Fedora-tp16058279p16087950.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
