copying partitions from sata to sata

[C M Reinehr]

On Saturday 26 January 2008 11:05, Vu Pham wrote:
> Vu Pham wrote:
> > Sean Keating wrote:
> >> I have had great success using parted to copy one drive (or one
> >> partition) to another drive.  It lets me resize at the same time.  You
> >> will need to boot off a parted CD in order to do this.  Also, be aware
> >> that when you do this it is an exact copy.  Both disks will have the
> >> same UUID, so be careful to change one of them before you reboot, or the
> >> system gets very confused.  (The parted CD lets you start a terminal
> >> session so you can do it there.)
> >
> > Sean, thanks for the info. I just tried the GParted
> > http://gparted.sourceforge.net and it works just fine.
> >
> > The site has the Live-CD that allows me to boot from CD and load the GUI
> > interface of Parted. Easy to use. I have just only tried resize the NTFS
> > partition and it works well. Will do the partition copy tomorrow.
>
> I use the Licve CD Gparted to copy the boot partition ( Windows XP )
> from disk 1 to disk 2. After that I set the boot flag but disk2 fails to
> boot: some dis activities, then nothing, just black screen. vTried
> twice. Both failed.
>
> Any idea ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vu

Just a guess, as I haven't had to boot Windows in many years, but I suspect 
that the Windows boot loader is confused owing to the way that the BIOS 
identifies the disks at start-up. Since you duplicated disk 1 onto disk 2. 
The Windows bootloader is trying to work as if it were still on disk 1. Isn't 
there a repair function on the Windows install disk that will re-install the 
bootloader? Or, just install GRUB from a floppy & use it to chainload 
Windows.

HTH

cmr

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