On Oct 7, 2005, at 6:10 PM, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> A while back I posted a question about cloning a Windows XP
> drive using
> a Linux live CD such as Knoppix. The suggestion to use "dd" was a
> good
> one. I googled this command and found detailed instructions on
> www.nilbus.com for doing this. In short, they said to:
> Use fdisk to create partitions on the new drive identical to
> those on
> the old drive (using the -u option to display sectors rather than
> cylinders, which ensure that they'll be the same.)
> Use dd to copy the 440 bytes of the boot partition.
> Use dd to copy the contents of the other partitions.
[snip]
Heh, what a coincidence. I cloned a WinXP partition using dd on
Wednesday for the first. It worked like a charm.
The one thing I did different was in copying the MBR. Instead of
copying parts of the boot partition (is there such a thing with
Windows?), I copied the entire 512 bytes of the MBR.
My procedure, then was:
1. fdisk -u /dev/hda
2. fdisk -u /dev/hdd
3. fdisk /dev/hdd (make partition with the EXACT same size)
4. dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdd1
5. dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdd bs=512 count=1
A bunch of reboots later (this is Windows after all), and it popped
up in my brand new drive.
Kurt
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