OT: Windows partition copy

[Roger Oberholtzer]

I will answer all replies here together. The partition is on the primary
hard disk. It is also the first (I know that does not matter). And it is
active. Here is the disk layout:

Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 80.0 GB, 80000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9726 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
part1   *           1         512     4112608+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
part2             513         575      506047+  82  Linux swap
part3             576        2302    13872127+  83  Linux
part4            2303        9726    59633280   83  Linux

I want to boot from partition 1.

I copied by making a new partition and copying the files. I do know that
all are there. With the exception of the boot tracks inside the
partition itself. I have the same version of windows on a machine at
work (MSVC++ is DITW in Wine/Win4Lin...). I am going to see if I can get
the boot part of that partition some way. The rest of that other
computer is UnixWare (ok, it is the computer from hell). Maybe I can dd
the boot part of the Windows partition off one disk and put it on
another... Next stop: Google.

If I make a boot floppy, maybe I can get a Windows boot off the
partition and do something.

BTW, dd was not an option as I needed to resize the partition and do not
fully trust resizing. I did that on a SUSE9.0 install to a EXT
partition. It happily made one smaller during install (not the one it
was installing to), but it did not bother to move the files from the
part that was no longer to be in the partition. It was an experiment to
see how it worked. I won't be doing that with a needed partition any
time soon!

On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 21:07, Mike Reinehr wrote:
> Another question is 'how did you move it?' I can't remember the details, but I 
> seem to remember that a MS formated partition has something specific written 
> to the first block or two of a partition. You should have been ok if you dd'd 
> it, but if you tar'ed then all bets are off.
> 
> mike
> 
> On Friday 27 August 2004 01:17 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Michael Hipp wrote:
> > > Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > > > I had no choice. I had to keep a Windows 98 partition. But I moved it
> > > > elsewhere on the disk. Now, GRUB will not boot into that partition.
> > >
> > > Someone can correct me if I'm wrong but I think you're out of luck. The
> > > DOS-kernel Windows (9x/ME) won't boot from anywhere but a primary
> > > partition and I'm not sure they will actually boot from any but the
> > > first partition. Make sure the partition is 'active' and not 'hidden' by
> > > using a partitioning tool.
> >
> > I don't think it has to be the first partition, but it definitely has to
> > be a primary parition on the first boot device.
> >
> > > The NT-Kernel Windows (NT/2k/XP) are more forgiving about where you
> > > locate them.
> > >
> > > Why did you move it? It would never occur to me to attempt to move a
> > > DOS/Win9x partion. The only safe place for such a thing is hda1 (C:).
> >
> > or /dev/null  ;)