Copying a Hard Disk Containing Windows With Fedora
Oliver Ruebenacker
curoli at gmail.com
Fri Mar 14 23:09:29 UTC 2008
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/
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Oliver Ruebenacker, Post-Doc Researcher
> > Center for Cell Analysis and Modelling
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