[ltp] Upgrade HD

[Bret Comstock Waldow]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 05:47, Jim Harvey wrote:

> > What should I do?
>
> Try the tar trick.  Mount the new partition as /mnt/new, cd to the old
> partition and: tar cf - ./* | (cd /mnt/new ; tar xf -)
> I've had good luck copying windows 98.  No XP or NTFS here to try it out.
> This will not copy the bootloader.   You have to fdisk /mbr to get windows

I have been using dd to back up my disk, and it always works with Win98, and 
has never worked with Windows 2000.  The really odd thing is that the 
*original* copy of Windows 2000 stops working (the login dialog accepts the 
entries, disappears, then presents again, endlessly)!

My next machine is likely to have XP on it, and work uses XP so I may leave it 
on, so I would be happy to hear of a way to clone XP to another disk that 
works.

But I suspect the structure of 2000 & XP is different in some way from 98, et 
al, such that something tricky is required.