On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 09:19:52AM -0500, LMH wrote:
I think you want to use a disk clone to do this, something like the
clonezilla live CD. As long as the drives are the same size, or the target
drive is larger, clonezilla will just copy one drive to the other. It does
a bit by bit clone, so it doesn't care about files and permissions and
such.
Unfortunately the original is larger.
Even if you could copy with cp, you need the boot sector and such to get
the OS up, so that wouldn't work.
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An interesting thought just came to mind. If I can get all of the XP stuff
copied over and get it to boot and finish the XP upgrade, I can then copy
over the remainder of the files for all of the other stuff, as I'll now have
the permissions I need.