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spitzwegerich
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 Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2003 11:20 pm Post subject: move windows to another partition |
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hello!
i want to move a bootable windows partition from hda1 to hdd3.
what i did up to now:
i created hdd3 as a win fat32 partition, bootable flag set.
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/winold
mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/hdd3
mount /dev/hdd3 /mnt/winnew
cp -R /mnt/winold/* /mnt/winnew
furthermore i changed grub.conf to boot windows from hdd3 instead of hda1.
but booting windows (now from hdd3) does not work. this is not very surprising, because i only copied the filesystem.
what is missing here to get a bootable windows on hdd3?
many thanks,
~michael |
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ebrostig
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Could you post the contents of grub.conf?
Also what happens? Any messages at all?
Erik
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yak8998
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Just wondering...
does mkdosfs make a FAT32 partition (i am guessing it does...thus the '32' tag)
Was windows previously on a NTFS partition? Moving from one to the other would cause it to ruin your install...
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spitzwegerich
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| Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2003 12:27 am Post subject: |
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the relevant part of grub.conf:
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# For booting Windows NT or Windows95
title Windows
#rootnoverify (hd0,0)
rootnoverify (hd3,2)
makeactive
chainloader +1
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on booting this entry i get: | Code: | Booting 'Windows'
rootnoverify (hd3,2)
makeactive
chainloader +1
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after that i get ca.15 ascii-signs on the screen and the computer beeps once. the cursor blinks just to the right of the last ascii sign. after pressing a key, i get back to the grub boot menu.
btw booting the old windows installation still works.
and yes, all partitions are fat32 ones. |
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spitzwegerich
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i tried a lot of things, including a (dos) format /s and shuffling the master/slave first/second ide-controller assignment of the drives.
suddenly it worked. i am not sure what was the critical step, but maybe windows98 does only like to be on a master on the first controller (would be very typical  ). |
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