Copying a Hard Disk Containing Windows With Fedora

[Markus Kesaromous]

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 at gmail.com
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> 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/
>>
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Oliver Ruebenacker, Post-Doc Researcher
> Center for Cell Analysis and Modelling
> http://www.ccam.uchc.edu/
> 
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