Copying a Hard Disk Containing Windows With Fedora

[jdow]

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

{^_^}
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Oliver Ruebenacker" <curoli at gmail.com>
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 at live.com> 
> 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
>>
>>  ----------------------------------------
>>  > 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/
>>  >>
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >
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