Copying a Hard Disk Containing Windows With Fedora

[jdow]

From: "Bill Davidsen" <davidsen at tmr.com>
Sent: Friday, 2008, March 14 13:11


> 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!
>> 
> If the drives are not totally identical, I believe that you want to 
> create a partition on the destination of the same type and size, make it 
> active and then copy the partition (with dd as you proposed). There was 
> a reason for doing it that way, but I have no idea what it is/was years 
> after learning that the hard way.
> 
> If you have an identical drive just do what you wanted, it should work.

No, bill, as long as the destination is larger you can make the copy. I
now have an additional 40G partition on my XP laptop disk.

{^_-}