Re: Parted doesn't copy Windows drives?

[Andrew Clausen]

Hi Stuart,

On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 03:43:26PM +0000, Stuart Halliday wrote:
> 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?

Should work!

> 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.

When I first read this, I didn't come up with a theory.  Sorry!

Now, I suspect the CHS settings got confused.  Does the BIOS + Parted's
numbers match?

> 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).

Can linux read the new file system ok?  Can you run a diff on the two
file systems?

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

It appears that way!

Thanks,
Andrew