copying partitions from sata to sata

[C M Reinehr]

On Saturday 26 January 2008 16:53, Vu Pham wrote:
> 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

Glad you got it working. :-)

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