From: "Bill Davidsen" <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, 2008, March 14 13:11
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!
If the drives are not totally identical, I believe that you want to
create a partition on the destination of the same type and size, make it
active and then copy the partition (with dd as you proposed). There was
a reason for doing it that way, but I have no idea what it is/was years
after learning that the hard way.
If you have an identical drive just do what you wanted, it should work.
No, bill, as long as the destination is larger you can make the copy. I
now have an additional 40G partition on my XP laptop disk.
{^_-}
