[ltp] Re: Step up T60

[Helen Borrie]

At 07:22 PM 16/03/2009, you wrote:
>On 12/03, Andre Wyrwa wrote:
>
>> 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.

I'm pleased to say that the migration worked very well, thanks to some good advice from everyone.  I did the job twice, actually, because I messed up the partitioning on the first run by making a bad decision about the relative positions of free space;  but the re-run was a breeze.

cheers,
Helen