[ltp] Re: Step up T60

[km]

On 12/03, Andre Wyrwa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > The dual-boot plan is to get rid of the unwanted stuff on the 80GB drive, partition the 320 GB drive and image-copy the C partition into the boot partition of the bigger drive;  then do likewise with the Linux (Mandriva 2008:0) partition from the 160 GB Samsung PATA HDD that's currently on the no-name;  and fix up the MBR.
> 
> You can't just image-copy WinXP to another drive. The reason is that it
> stores a harddisk ID hash with the drive letter associations in it's
> registry. Namely, it won't boot anymore on the new drive, because it's
> got the wrong hdd id stored for C. But you can do something about that.
> There's an article on thinkwiki about copying a windows installation
> that explains how to manually copy over those drive ids.

I have done this _alot_ without any special tweaking. I've even dd'ed a
running windows system partition (just shut off all programs and the
pagefile first) without any problems. If you dd the MBR as well there
is no need to even run fdisk /mbr afterwards.

-km