Copying a Hard Disk Containing Windows With Fedora
jdow
jdow at earthlink.net
Mon Mar 17 19:56:32 UTC 2008
His basic mistrake was using partitions rather than copying the entire
disk. That seems to be critical to success.
{^_^}
----- Original Message -----
From: "Oliver Ruebenacker" <curoli at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, 2008, March 14 16:09
> 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/
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
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