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I have copied all the partitions. Linux is booting up fine but Windows doesn't. I have done<BR>
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cp -a /Windows/<BR>
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where /Windows/C is mounted to /dev/hda1 (new dive) and<BR>
/Windows/I is mounted to /dev/hdb1 (old drive)<BR>
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my /boot/grub/menu.lst has<BR>
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title Windows<BR>
chainloader(hd0,0)+1</TT><BR>
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but when it boots up, the grub menu does not even have a choice for Windows.<BR>
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TIA for any pointers<BR>
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On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 13:36, Drew wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><I>At 11:28 AM 8/19/07, R. Kannan wrote:
>But I cannot use plain old 'cp' to copy partition boot record. Can
>I? So it looks like I need to use 'dd'.
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>But will there be an issue with using dd on partitions that are
>different in size as long as the destination partition is bigger
>than the source partition? For example, if I use
dd'ing from smaller to larger *should* work, but the extra space
will be wasted/unavailable as a
result. Use cp -a, or better yet cp -av so as to monitor the progress.
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- Drew.
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