Comments on: CEO breakfast, moving Win2k

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:43:01 +0000

Aha! To copy from little sda to big sdb:

Boot Knoppix
fdisk /dev/sdb, make one big partition on sdb
dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1 bs=1M
ntfsresize /dev/sdb1
fdisk /dev/sdb, mark partition 1 bootable
reboot

By: leolo

leolo — Thu, 11 Dec 2003 00:13:16 +0000

I believe it is impossible to move win2k to another disk. I do know it's impossible to do for winXP. You have to reinstall and migrate your data. It's one of Microsoft's innovative business solutions. ISTR something on slashdot about this, but can't get google to find it for me. And the existence of software like StepUp makes me think it is non-easy.

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:42:48 +0000

Other possibilities after copying sideways seem to be ntfsresize or Partition Magic. Ghost won’t work because I have no floppy. Stupid vmware.

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:36:44 +0000

Hrm. What if I:

Copy the disk sideways into a partition on the new drive with dd
Upgrade the partition to a logical volume
Use the logical volume manager to grow the NTFS partition to occupy the whole disk

By: zhixel

zhixel — Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:18:33 +0000

#1 Give up
#2 Fresh install on the new disk
#3 Migrate

It’s just easier in the long run. Welcome to Microsoft country.