Copying a Hard Disk Containing Windows With Fedora

[TNWestTex]

Markus Kesaromous wrote:
> 
> 
> You misunderstood, and I was not clear enough 
> by saying incredibly slow.
> 
> I meant that the clonezilla  package is an ISO you
> must burn to cdrom and boot from it.
> Once booted, and you select to clone disk to disk or
> partition to partition (which was the case I used), it
> took it 6 hours to finish cloning a 42 GB partition,
> of which only 17.5GB were in use (according to clonezilla).
> 
> The speed of disk write that I tested using dd is about
> 25 megabytes/s. I got this when I first used dd to clone
> one partition to the other:
> time dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdc1 bs=128M
> 
> I chose 128M blocksize to minimize number of calls to read/write
> 
> System has 2GB of of ram. Even while the dd was running, I had plenty of
> free ram. The program top showd the process dd with RSS of 128M
> which means it was not swapping out/in any pages of the dd io buffer.
> 
> At anyrate, clonezilla is supposed to do the right thing, but I am still
> not able to boot the resulting disk. It gets as far as the windows logo
> splash screen then it reboots.
> 
> -Markus
> 
> 
Windows doesn't boot from a drive it detects as removable.  Apparently it
can be made to do so but the process was complex enough that I haven't tried
to do it.  Google will give you lots of ideas.

Robert McBroom
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