Copying a Hard Disk Containing Windows With Fedora

[Konstantin Svist]

Try gparted - it copies and resizes pretty much all known partitions. 
Doesn't copy the MBR, though.



Markus Kesaromous 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 at gmail.com
>> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>> 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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