<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:14:57 -0700 From: Markus Kesaromous <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:remotestar@live.com">remotestar@live.com</a>> Subject: RE: Copying a Hard Disk Containing Windows With Fedora To: For users of Fedora <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a>> Message-ID: <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:BLU135-W5416648F97AE2EAC3BF8F2B30B0@phx.gbl">BLU135-W5416648F97AE2EAC3BF8F2B30B0@phx.gbl</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I am truly puzzled by these reports of success!! I just finished cloning /dev/sda1 to /dev/sdc1 sdc1 is larger, so I did ntfsresize. So far so good. Thing is, sdc1 is a USB HD (with bios support). Even though bios is configured to boot off of USB first, CD next and built-in HD last, It still boots off of the built in drive. Only way I can force it to boot off of USB HD is to get into bios and disable the built-in drive (set to not-installed) and reboot - then bios will boot off of the USB drive. However, windows still will not boot! It gives me a splash screen of windows logo, then reboots. Is there something in windows that insists that the drive be on same controller as it was when first installed? Markus</blockquote> <div> </div> <div>Yes, I think it is so...</div>