Re: dd in=/dev/sda out=/dev/sdb

["Stephen Adler" <user=65@nabble.blu.org>]

 Thanks for all the help guys, but I seemed to have foobar'ed my 
system... :( Here is what I did... I know, I know, it's kinda wacky.. 

Under windows vista, down loaded casper which is a disk utility which 
copies a driver. I was too cheap to buy the software, so I downloaded 
the trial version which will copy the driver but not resize it... 

After the drive was copied, I booted with the copied driver. (i.e. 
verify that the  MBR was ok and that I had a proper booting disk.) 

Next I booted up using the knoppix CD and ran the gparted to do the file 
system resize. 

I then tried to boot off the resized disk, but no luck. It's like 
gparted blew away the master boot record or something like that which 
does not make any sense to me. I always thought that the MBR was never 
touched unless done so explicitly using lilo or grub or something like 
that. Anyway, now I'm stuck with a resized driver which don't boot... :( 

Any ideas? 

Jack wrote: 
> Pull out old drive, 
> Put in new drive, 
> Install on new drive 
> Put in old drive (as D/E or whatever) 
> Find the utility in Vista that does migration from old to new 
> 
> Gosh does M$ systems even have dd?  If so, then M$ is seeing the light like 
> Apple and just putting a wrapper on a *NIX like OS. 
> 
> I would go read M$'s technet first 
> 
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> -----Original Message----- 
> From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of 
> Kristian Erik Hermansen 
> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 4:56 AM 
> To: Stephen Adler 
> Cc: [hidden email] 
> Subject: Re: dd in=/dev/sda out=/dev/sdb 
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> On 9/30/07, Stephen Adler <[hidden email]> wrote: 
>   
>> What's the windows equivalent of doing a 
>> 
>> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb 
>> 
>> in windows vista? My c: drive is too small an I want to add a larger d: 
>> drive, copy all off what's on c: to d: and make d: bootable, then swap 
>> the disks. 
>> 
>> (I know... this isn't a MS mailing list... sorry.) 
>>     
> 
> c: > dd if=\\.\PhysicalDrive0 of=\\.\PhysicalDrive1 
> 
> ???  dunno :-( 
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