RE: Copying a Hard Disk Containing Windows With Fedora

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Hi Les,
So you mean I should sysprep the source windows first, 
before I clone? 
Also, I am  not sure I can even get to press F8 fast enough.. :)
I will try it again :)

Cheers,

Markus

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> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:16:26 -0500
> From: lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
> To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Copying a Hard Disk Containing Windows With Fedora
> 
> Markus Kesaromous wrote:
>> You misunderstood, and I was not clear enough 
>> by saying incredibly slow.
> 
> No, I think I understand, but I don't think it is typical.
> 
>> I meant that the clonezilla  package is an ISO you
>> must burn to cdrom and boot from it.
> 
> That's the clonezilla-live variation.  You can also make a bootable USB 
> drive or use the full version in network boot mode with it's  companion 
> package DRBL.  But you end up running the same thing in all cases.
> 
>> Once booted, and you select to clone disk to disk or
>> partition to partition (which was the case I used), it
>> took it 6 hours to finish cloning a 42 GB partition,
>> of which only 17.5GB were in use (according to clonezilla).
> 
> I've always saved an image an written it back, but that sounds like it 
> should have taken about an hour or less.  I'm not sure why it would be 
> so slow in your case.  For a straight disk->disk I would use dd even 
> though that normally takes longer because you copy even the unused parts.
> 
>> At anyrate, clonezilla is supposed to do the right thing, but I am still
>> not able to boot the resulting disk. It gets as far as the windows logo
>> splash screen then it reboots.
> 
> If your hardware isn't exactly the same you need to run sysprep before 
> doing an image copy so it will re-detect the new hardware at bootup. 
> You might try hitting F8 as it boots to see if you can get the prompt 
> for safe mode or logging to see if you can tell what is broken.
> 
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