dd'ing a Win2K drive - Should this work?
pll at lanminds.com
pll at lanminds.com
Tue May 6 14:52:47 EDT 2003
Hi,
System Specs: Dell 2650 server w/ 2GB of main memory,
5 removable SCSI drives.
Win2K is installed on /dev/sdc, Linux on /dev/sda. There is no
master boot loader in the sense that Lilo is installed on /dev/sda,
but only deals with /dev/sda. If Win2K is required, the Bios is
fiddled with in order to boot directly off that drive.
Should I be able to:
dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/sdd
And then expect to be able to boot off of /dev/sdd OR move /dev/sdd
to /dev/sdc's slot and boot from that and actually have it work?
This was tried, but supposedly the new drive would not boot
regardless of which slot it was in (I wasn't there, so I don't know
what was done).
I know next to nothing of how Win2K works, so I don't know if this is
even a realistic idea. Since it was reported to me that it failed,
I'm guessing there is some registry setting or something somewhere which
keeps track of drive data or something.
Has anyone done this before? What were your results?
Thanks,
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