On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Tod Thomas <fr33zone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I know this is a little off topic. I did google around looking for the > correct forum to post this question but had little luck. If anyone can make > an informed suggestion I'd very much appreciate it. > > I have a 150GB ATA disk, /dev/hdb, containing winxp. I'd like to move the > contents to an spare 80GB ATA disk, /dev/hda, to make room for a full > install of FC10 on the larger disk in preparation for ultimately getting the > winxp install running under a linux based VM. > > From knoppix, I started by using ntfsresize to shrink the xp partition down > to 20GB. That worked suprisingly fine. > I then installed the smaller drive and used dd to copy over the image of the > xp installation: dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hda bs=10000000 count=2000 > > I rebooted and voila! it worked - sort of. The new disk boots xp but it > still, according to fdisk, thinks its 150GB. So I used fdisk to delete and > redefine the xp partition (primary, bootable type=7) with the new size of > the drive, 20GB. After rebooting xp came up but then started quickly blue > screening a message I couldn't read, and rebooting. This repeated in a loop > until I just rebooted. I tried the whole process over again but this time > specified 80GB to dd and fdisk, same disaster. > > I tried everything again, but this time instead of fdisk I fired up gparted > to see if I could resize from there hoping that if it could some magic would > also fix the invalid sizing detected by fdisk. gparted could see the drive > but couldn't recognize it as having anything it could work with. I > highlighted the drive and the progress bar stayed gray. > > So far it seems I can use the drive this way without causing xp any > problems. The issue is things just don't look right and I suspect it will > come back to bite me one day. I'm not an expert at manipulating bits on a > hard drive just yet. Could someone point me to my error? Is what I'm > trying do-able? If its a conceptual problem a little education would come > in handy too. I wouldn't use dd for this. Gparted has been more helpful to me in a situation similar to yours. Using Gparted (a) I'd first create a NTFS partition (make sure to create it As Primary), (b) copy the partition from the source drive to the target drive, and (c) if there's a problem booting the target drive with xp in it, use a winxp cd to go into rescue mode and use FIXMBR to fix the master boot record. Gparted copies partitions pretty well. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
