Copying a Hard Disk Containing Windows With Fedora

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Wed Mar 19 18:29:23 UTC 2008


jdow wrote:
> Markus, since you are so insistent I will be triply redundant -
> 
> You absolutely MUST copy block zero, at the very least, as well as the
> partition you want copied. It is best to copy the entire disk. Copying
> only one partition is not necessarily workable for a boot partition.
> It MAY work for a data only partition; but, I have seen indications of
> failures in this regard.
> 
A valid boot in the MBR is needed, but why do you think it needs to be 
the one from the original disk? AFAIK any Windows boot will work, and 
both lilo and grub can boot MS partitions.

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