discuss: Copying Windows to a new drive, using linux - How-to/Guide
Subject:
Re: Copying Windows to a new drive, using linux - How-to/Guide
From:
Evgueni Tzvetanov ####@####.####
Date:
1 Apr 2005 12:37:30 -0000
Message-Id: <424D4089.8010203@comcast.net>
Another issue is if you have to copy not only to a larger disk, but also
to a different drive letter. I could not see any comments on that. Here
is what I found recently about copying Windows 2000 partition, but I
could not find anything usable on XP:
http://gamma.nic.fi/~point/win2copy.htm
Stein Gjoen wrote:
> Ed Anderson wrote:
>
>> Stein,
>>
>> What version of windows are you copying?
>
>
>
> On this dual boot machine I run Windows 98 SR2. The
> hardware is Pentium I (aka. "classic), no MMX even, at 150 MHz.
> My 30 GB Linux drive was damaged recently, so I am about to
> invest in new drives.
>
>> Someone brought up some possible issues with XP - the volume label and
>> SSID may be stored outside of the partition boundaries in hidden
>> sectors, or are destroyed. I have not confirmed this, but someone
>> said it may be in issue. Can anyone confirm? see
>> http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1032246
>
>
> NTFS actually comes in many versions, all a little different
> and documentation is sparse. Thus if it works on one version
> it could fail on others. I don't even know how to determine
> what version of NTFS a machine is running.
>
> Regards,
> Stein Gjoen
>
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