M$ question [OFF TOPIC]

[Billy Tallis]

On 2/22/06, Daniel B. Thurman <dant at cdkkt.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry Folks,
>
> I know this is a fedora group (I have fedora systems too) and
> I hope some of you are tolerant of *gasp* windoes.
>
> I am desperate so I need to ask if anyone had any experience
> in trying to create/copy the entire M$ windows OS (win2k pro) from
> a main (old) drive to a new (bigger) drive successfully?  I am trying
> to get off of an old drive, transfer the contents of the old to a newer
> drive and remove the old drive.  I cannot get windows to boot off the
> new drive.
>

Put both drives in the same box, boot to knoppix and dd from the
smaller drive to the larger drive. You will have unpartitioned space
on the bigger drive. You can then attach the large drive to the same
controller that the small drive was on, and it should boot.