Re: Copying a Hard Disk Containing Windows With Fedora

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Try gparted - it copies and resizes pretty much all known partitions. Doesn't copy the MBR, though.



Markus Kesaromous 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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