Copying a Hard Disk Containing Windows With Fedora

[jdow]

If the drive is known good:
dd if=sda of=sdb bs=8225200    <<-- copies the full disk all partitions

If the drive is bad use a block size of 512 and CONV=noerrors and
CONV=sync. A CONV=fdatasync makes sure the last write is finished
before you see the program's done. But that's only helpful if you
watch paint peel as a hobby. You also might want to make an run to
a file on a Linux machine with a suitable amount of space space.
Then you can make sure you can copy something that is mountable.

{^_^}    Joanne
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Markus Kesaromous" <remotestar at live.com>
Sent: Friday, 2008, March 14 12:12


>
> If the drives are IDENTICAL (i.e:  manufacturer and model number and 
> size),
> AND you boot the new drive in the SAME hardware box,
> then yes, IT MIGHT WORK - but no guarantees.
> The reason (I was told - but am  not sure) is that windows places
> information in blocks that are not part of the file system, and so
> they are invisible to the FS. Furthermore, when copying, as with dd,
> from one windows disk to another, will not guarantee that these hidden
> information blocks will end up in the same block address on the
> neww drive. Why? because each HD has it's own bad blocks
> and reserved set of blocks for bad block forwarding during
> low level format. When windows gets installed, it locates reserverd
> block addresses and uses them for such a scheme - and since the
> addresses of these reserved blocks are different from disk to disk,
> windows will detect that it is a clone.
>
> Please be aware that I am only paraphrasing what I was told. I do not
> know in fact if this is true.
>
> Good Luck,
> Markus
>
> ----------------------------------------
>> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:01:37 -0400
>> From: curoli at gmail.com
>>
>>      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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