Copying a Hard Disk Containing Windows With Fedora

[jdow]

Copy the entire disk. Otherwise partitioning information will be
lost. And I've seen indications that NTFS partitions are sensitive
to precise position on the disk. You MUST, repeat MUST, copy the
disk serial number that Windows installs for a boot partition. That
means you must copy from block zero through at least your old /dev/sda1
partion end.

{^_^}
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Markus Kesaromous" <remotestar at live.com>
Sent: Friday, 2008, March 14 16:33


>
> No I had no reason to copy a hidden partition.
> I had no hidden partition in the first place.
> So, my slowness issue may be related to the
> laptop itself. I dont know.
> As I said, dd from one disk partition to another disk's
> partition always yields about 25 MBytes/s. Whereas
> clonezilla took it 6 hours to clone 42 GB patition.
>
> This is NOT an issue of misconfiguration. How could you
> possibly misconfigure hard drives??? Source drive is
> main drive and internal to the laptop.
> target drive is a usb2.0 HD (both drives are 7200rpm and udma 6).
> Albeit, on USB, udma6 is not operable as that is only applicable to
> drives on the EATA controller.
>
> The version of clonezilla is whatever I found on the sourceforge
> just a couple of days ago.
>
> Markus
>
> ----------------------------------------
>> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:09:29 -0400
>> From: curoli at gmail.com
>>
>>      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  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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>>> > Center for Cell Analysis and Modelling
>>> > http://www.ccam.uchc.edu/
>>> >
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