Multi-boot: Making windows partitions bootable?

[Tony Nelson]

On 09-11-23 12:35:00, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
 ...
> I know this is a Fedora site and I am a diehard Fedora user,
> but I also have a multiboot system...  apologies to the purists.
> 
> Is it possible to backup and restore Xp/Vista to a different
> drive/partition in the case of imminent drive failure?  How is this 
> to be properly done?
> 
> I tried to use rsync from the original to a different partition
> but this does not seem to work.
> 
> Help please?

There are various -ghost apps, but I've just used dd to a new drive, 
copying the entire drive to a drive as large or larger.  If it is 
larger, I just extend the last partition to the rest of the drive.  
IIRC, I usually haven't had to do anything else, but it might be 
necessary to do a "Repair Install", at least with XP (I haven't used 
anything more recent).  A Repair Install is tedious but hasn't done any 
harm when I've used it.

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