Tod Thomas wrote: > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda As noted, this is greatly excessive. Do: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 > dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/dev/hda1 bs=10000000 count=2000 > - copies resized xp partition to new drive That's a bs bs, if you follow me. If you're going to use bs (byte-size) and count, use a sane value of bs like the the logical block size. Otherwise, just leave it out; there's no need. > Reboot to new drive and all is well. As noted, you'll need to fix the MBR of hda with fixmbr (or use GRUB). > Defragging is factored in somewhere prior to this operation. There is no need to defrag, since you've already done ntfsresize and are simply going to do a bit-for-bit copy from hdb1 to hda1. It might have helped to do a defrag /before/ ntfsresize (since you were "squeezing" the NTFS filesystem), but no point now. > I think upon reboot this will trigger xp to perform a chkdisk. Possibly, due to the earlier ntfsresize. > Does this make sense? Mostly. Matt Flaschen -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
