Re: Copying a Hard Disk Containing Windows With Fedora



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@xxxxxxxxx>
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@xxxxxxxx> 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

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> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:45:11 -0400
> From: curoli@xxxxxxxxx

> To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> 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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> Center for Cell Analysis and Modelling
> http://www.ccam.uchc.edu/
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