Hi, I have done what you want to do although it was not win 2000. You might get an io error at the end of dd but things should work fine. It should copy the hole thing as is and it should work. Just check xxx records in and xxx records out to make sure they are the same. regards, willem
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, T. Ribbrock wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm pretty certain this has been asked before and I did find a few > things on Google, but I'd like to be sure to understand it fully... > > I have two 20GB hard drives with the same geometry, the only > difference being that one of them is a more "silent" version. > In the end, I want to use the "silent" one for Linux. However, there's > a Win00 installation on that drive at the moment, which I'd like to > keep as is. Hence my question: > > Is it possible to "clone" that Win00 installation from one drive to > the other using dd? Has anybody tried this - and what were the > experiences? Am I right in assuming that the command is simply > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb (maybe with a blocksize to increase speed) > - and will that also copy any bootblocks that Win00 might use? > Any information appreciated, though I'm really after a solution that > can be done with Linux' tools, as my knowledge about Win is close to > nil... > > Cheerio, > > Thomas > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
