Re: Copying a Hard Disk Containing Windows With Fedora

His basic mistrake was using partitions rather than copying the entire
disk. That seems to be critical to success.

{^_^}

Sent: Friday, 2008, March 14 16:09

    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

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 > 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/
 >

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