<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Les Mikesell <<a href="mailto:lesmikesell@gmail.com">lesmikesell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">max bianco wrote:<br>
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> I need to copy the hard disk of a Windows computer to a new hard<br>
> disk of equal size. I was thinking of connecting both drives<br>
> (SATA/150), booting from the Fedora 8 Rescue Disk and then do<br>
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> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb<br>
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> in hope that after that, the second hard disk can be used in place<br>
> of the first one (including booting Windows, of course).<br>
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> Does this work? Thanks!<br>
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</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> Does the fedora rescue disc support reading and writing to ntfs?<br>
> I would make sure it does or its all going to be a waste of time.<br>
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</div>That doesn't matter with this approach. You are copying raw disk<br>
sectors which will bring along whatever filesystem and boot sectors<br>
happen to reside on them. <br></blockquote><div><br>Cool. <br><br>Max<br></div></div><br>