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@xxxxxxxxx> 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/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list