copying partitions from sata to sata

[Vu Pham]

C M Reinehr wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 January 2008 09:00, Vu Pham wrote:
>> My notebook has a 80G sata drive with one partition of Windows. I have
>> another 120G sata drive which I would like to move my Windows on the
>> first drive to, shrink it to 60G and use the remaining 60G for Linux.
>>
>> Because these two drives are sata interface so I think I can connect
>> both of them to my desktop which is Suse Linux and copying the Windows
>> partition over. Which tool on Linux allows me to copy partitions from
>> one drive to another drive ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Vu
> 
> That would be dd or, maybe, partimage.
> 

Can I use dd ? Do I have to care about the disk geometry C/H/S of the 
two drives may be not the same ?

Vu