M$ question [OFF TOPIC]

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> Sorry Folks,
> 
> I know this is a fedora group (I have fedora systems too) and
> I hope some of you are tolerant of *gasp* windoes.
> 
> I am desperate so I need to ask if anyone had any experience
> in trying to create/copy the entire M$ windows OS (win2k pro) from
> a main (old) drive to a new (bigger) drive successfully?  I am trying
> to get off of an old drive, transfer the contents of the old to a newer
> drive and remove the old drive.  I cannot get windows to boot off the
> new drive.
> 
> Here is what I tried to do:
> 
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> 
> Any suggestions are appreciated!
> 
> Kind regards,
> Dan
> 
If you use Norton Ghost, you need to copy partitions, not the entire
drive. You will have to copy the partitions one at a time, instead
of all at once, but that should not be a problem. You can also use
something like the System Rescue CD to copy partitions.

http://www.sysresccd.org/

You may need boot from a DOS floppy and run "fdisk /mbr" to get the
system to boot, and you will need to make sure Windows partition is
marked as "active" or "bootable".

Mikkel
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