[mdlug] Flakey hard drive

[R Kannan]

I have copied all the partitions. Linux is booting up fine but Windows
doesn't. I have done

cp -a /Windows/

where /Windows/C is mounted to /dev/hda1 (new dive) and
/Windows/I is mounted to /dev/hdb1 (old drive)

my /boot/grub/menu.lst has


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title Windows
    chainloader(hd0,0)+1

but when it boots up, the grub menu does not even have a choice for
Windows.

TIA for any pointers


On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 13:36, Drew wrote:

> 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'.
> >
> >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.
> 
> ----
> 
> - Drew.
> 
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