1 Topic by jinhyun

  • jinhyun
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Topic: Copy of NTFS partition

Hello GParted Staff

First, congratulation for GPerted it's very great !

Yes but i'have some wrong about copying XP NTFS but what ?

1/ i boot on CD with diskA MASTER SCSI and diskB SLAVE SCSI

2/ Under GPerted, i do copy of diskA partition1

3/ i do new label on diskB (DOS)

4/ i do paste on diskB partition1
Set flag : boot

5/ switch off computer

6/ Remove diskA

7/ Boot on diskB :
wrong there's the promt and nothing else... No BOOT of WinXP


What's wrong please ?

Thank you for your answer ;-)

2 Reply by LarryT

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Re: Copy of NTFS partition

Are your hd exactly the same ? I hope so !
You have only copied the partition, and not the mbr !
Or if you prefer, you really copied data, but not the bootloader.
So you have to boot gparted livecd, close the gparted window, run a terminal and then type :

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1

where sda is your first drive and sdb your second drive
be ***very*** carefull ! sda is the working hd, and sdb is the hd where you copied sda.
Then you have to opy the mbr also, using the above command.

Larry
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Former GParted-LiveCD maintainer (2007)