[nflug] Disk cloning

[Mark Musone]

Although I've never used gparted live cd or used it for cloning, assuming
that the disk was actually copied, you more than likely simply need to
re-install the boot partition.

It would be helpful to know exactly what is happening when you say "it
didn't boot", but I'd try this: 

1. put the cloned hard drive in the machine
2. boot XP off of cd
3. go into the recovery console
4. choose the appropriate windows installation when it lists them (should
only be one)
5. login with administrator password
6. run "fixmbr"
7. run fixboot (for the heck of it)
8. run bootcfg to make sure the boot.ini is pointing to the correct disk
9. profit!


I'd be surprised if gparted is smart enough to update the MBR on it's own..

-Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org [mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
Richard Hubbard
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 2:34 PM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: [nflug] Disk cloning

I _think_ this is straightforward.

Running out of room on my hard drive.  Got a new one, and now I need to
clone old over to new.  Difficulties: 1) Running Winders XP / That's how I
get the paycheck, sorry, 2) it's a laptop hard drive.

Is Gparted live cd the right tool?  

I tried it the other day, but the cloned version didn't boot. Was I
forgetting something?  Was I using the wrong tool?
Reeeely don't want to buy ghost for 1 drive cloning.
 
Richard Hubbard 
Technology Solutions Inc




 
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