copying partitions from sata to sata

[Vu Pham]

C M Reinehr wrote:
> On Saturday 26 January 2008 11:05, Vu Pham wrote:
>> Vu Pham wrote:
[...]
>>> 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.
> 

Google shows other people have similar problems, and one of the link 
says that Windows saves in its registries some partition information 
such as hidden partitions, and Gparted does not update this, it just 
copies over.

In my case, a Dell notebook, it has a partition of the 
diagnostic/utility program. So I ran gparted again, this time I copied 
that partition along with the Windows partition. And that fixes the 
problem.

Vu