Re: Cloning a disk using dd

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:44:41 -0500, General Schvantzkopf <schvantzkopf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I'm trying to clone a Win2K disk using Fedora Live on a USB FLASH disk. I
did a

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb

It seems to have cloned the MBR correctly and the partition layout looks
correct when I look at it using GParted. However when I tried to the boot
the cloned 2K disk it started to boot and then failed with an
inaccessible boot disk error. When I booted the original 2K disk and
tried to look at the cloned disk it said that the disk wasn't formatted.
So it appears that the NTFS file system wasn't cloned correctly.

Stupid question: how did you boot the new disk? Did you simply have your
bios boot the second drive, or did you remove the first drive?

If you tried to have the bios boot the second drive, windows will see the
partitions on the first drive and get royally confused about drive letter
assignments.
.

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