Parted doesn't copy Windows drives?

[Stuart Halliday]

I thought I'd try out Parted 1.6.6 and got a floppy disk boot and root disk 
made up and tried to move my small (3GB) FAT32 Windows C: drive data to another 
8GB drive so that that drive would become my new C: drive.

I think Parted can do this or can't it?

Whilst I can get it to copy a fat32 partition (my 3GB Win2000 pro
C: drive) to a 8GB drive using the Parted cp command. It doesn't
appear to work 100%.

After the copy I then make this 8GB drive my C: drive, disconnected
the old 3GB drive and reset the BIOS drive settings, and powered it
up.

The result was odd. 
Windows came up ok and I got the logon prompt. I entered my logon name and 
password, I got the message it was loading my settings, then I hear the startup 
theme song playing. But a few secs later it was saving my
settings and up popped the logon window again!
(I tried the same using safemode and it did exactly the same).

So obviously it appears Parted didn't do it 100% correctly or I'm
missing something.

Here are details.

I ran Parted.

I selected /dev/hdb (the 8GB drive)

I made a partition using

mkpart primary fat32 0 8223

Then I did

cp /dev/hda 1 1

So it now has a partition copy of my hda drive.
(I presume that it did resize it from 3GB to 8GB ok after all it did
bootup into Windows).

I then set the boot flag.

set 1 boot on


That's it.


After several tries I gave up. A friend loaned me his 'DISK CLONE' floppy by 
Quaterdeck which boots up in DOS and that copied the 3GB drive to my 8GB drive, 
Windows booted up and I could log in no trouble.


Was it something I did wrong with Parted?

-- 
Stuart Halliday
ECS Technology