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    Clone a hard drive with Windows XP OS on it?

    Hi,

    Is it possible to use Knoppix to clone a hard drive with Windows XP OS on it, to another hard drive? This would be in the case owhen someone wants to upgrade to a faster and bigger hard drive.

    Any ideas?

    neilsanner

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    partimage and dd are two candidates, so are regular copy and fixboot, fixmbr from the recoveryconsole...

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    Re: Clone a hard drive with Windows XP OS on it?

    Will it do the same as Norton Ghost for example?

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    Clone a hard drive with Windows XP OS on it?

    What does Norton Ghost do?

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    Re: Clone a hard drive with Windows XP OS on it?



    I mean, after the clone process, will the new drive boot windows normally like the original hard drive?

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    Clone a hard drive with Windows XP OS on it?

    Any utility that makes a bit image copy of a complete drive will result in a cloned copy. It is important that the boot sector be included in both the source and target if you have no other way to update it. This will of course result in a target drive with exactly the same partition information as the source. Further manipulation will be required to adjust partition and filesystem size. There are literally dozens of tools available, both free and not, for the operations that you are about to perform. I have heard both good and bad concerning Ghost and NTFS. Personally, I wouldn't touch a NTFS with someone elses 10 foot pole. As good as the current crop of FLOSS tools for NTFS are, all it takes is one little change pushed out by microsoft service pack to make them obsolete. This of course depends on the fact that someone at microsoft actually knows NTFS well enough to effect a transparent change.

    I suggest you read up on the tools available to you, determine a list of necessary procedures and _practice_ with unimportant information first. Even the skilled make a backup copy of any critical data before partition/filesystem manipulation.

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    Cloning works but you may need to use an SID walker

    The cloning with dd is straight forward. Afterwards you need to change the SID of the computer if you are going to have clones on the same network. There is a free utility from sysinternals to do that. Ghost uses ghostwalker and there is something similar for drive image. They are purchased software. The gadget from sysinternals is freeware and changes the SID for you

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    Re: Cloning works but you may need to use an SID walker

    Thank you everyone about dd and partimage.

    Thanks a lot rcook about the SID walker, this is very valuable information!!

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    Re: Clone a hard drive with Windows XP OS on it?

    Humm... It took all the afternoon and a part of the night to clone a 60GB ATA hard drive with dd... It seems to me that Norton Ghost is a lot faster than that (1-2 hours)... Is it possible that it's because dd is a bit image copier? Is there a faster utility in Knoppix for cloning harddrives?

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    Cloning works but you may need to use an SID walker

    parted, partimage, g4l, QTparted ...

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