bootable backups / dd and Windows cloning

[William Muriithi]

>> | will produce the exact image of /dev/hda on /dev/hdb so that the disk on
>> | /dev/hdb can effectively replace the disk on /dev/hda with no effect.
>> | However, when I tried to clone a Windows XP machine this way, the cloned
>> | disk is not bootable saying that there is disk error. I can still read
>> | the cloned disk once the machine boots from another disk (Windows or
>> | Linux) and a partition manager will report the same partition image as
>> | the first one (i.e. number of partitions, partition sizes, types and
>> | flags). I find this frustratingly surprising. Can anyone shade light on
>> | this

You can try acronis though. Its not a straight copy though. I believe
they do a lot of changes on the registry to fix those issue that
Lennart mentioned, but it works reliably

http://www.acronis.com/

The funny thing is, its based on Linux, but can not clone Linux
system.  Always find that odd..
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