Copying a Hard Disk Containing Windows With Fedora

[Fabio Fabio]

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> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:14:57 -0700
> From: Markus Kesaromous <remotestar at live.com>
> Subject: RE: Copying a Hard Disk Containing Windows With Fedora
> To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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> I am truly puzzled by these reports of success!!
> I just finished cloning /dev/sda1 to /dev/sdc1
> sdc1 is larger, so I did ntfsresize.
> So far so good.
>
> Thing is, sdc1 is a USB HD (with bios support).
> Even though bios is configured to boot off of USB first, CD next and
> built-in HD last,
> It still boots off of the built in drive. Only way I can force it to boot
> off of USB HD is to get into bios and disable the built-in drive (set to
> not-installed)
> and reboot - then bios will boot off of the USB drive.
>
> However, windows still will not boot! It gives me a splash screen of
> windows logo,
> then reboots.
> Is there something in windows that insists that the drive be on same
> controller
> as it was when first installed?
>
> Markus


Yes, I think it is so...
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