Copying a Hard Disk Containing Windows With Fedora

max bianco maximilianbianco at gmail.com
Fri Mar 14 19:38:24 UTC 2008


On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:

> max bianco wrote:
>
> >
> >      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!
> >
> > Does the fedora rescue disc support  reading and writing to ntfs?
> > I would make sure it does or its all going to be a waste of time.
>
> That doesn't matter with this approach.  You are copying raw disk
> sectors which will bring along whatever filesystem and boot sectors
> happen to reside on them.
>

Cool.

Max
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