Quote Originally Posted by orbitbsl
Hi Kowood
<<make sure each fs is the EXACT SAME SIZE>>
Does this mean I need to create a partition of the same size and type on the destination drive? I assumed that as dd did a byte by byte copy it would create everything during the process.
At first I woul copy the whole drive at once, including partition table and boot sectors
even though the new drive has a larger size and you will only use a portion of it.
Then under windows, resize, move or create new partition(s) to use the rest of the disk.
As far as I remember the windows boot loader (ntldr) do not like a change in the disk geometry
and/or a change in the physical location of the boot files...
You may need to use the windows recovery console from the install cd to re install the boot files.
My two cents,
Gilles