Copying a Hard Disk Containing Windows With Fedora

[Oliver Ruebenacker]

     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 <curoli at gmail.com> 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
http://www.ccam.uchc.edu/