Copying a Hard Disk Containing Windows With Fedora

[Oliver Ruebenacker]

     Dear friends, Mark,

  fdisk showed my Windows HD had a main partition and a "hidden"
partition. did you try copying the hidden partition, too?

     Take care
     Oliver

  p.s.: The hour and a half copying time was for two 80 Gb HDs.

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Markus Kesaromous <remotestar at live.com> 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
>
>  ----------------------------------------
>  > 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/
>  >>
>  >
>  >
>  >
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Oliver Ruebenacker, Post-Doc Researcher
Center for Cell Analysis and Modelling
http://www.ccam.uchc.edu/