[oclug] Upgrading a windows box with linux

[Raj]

try either sys d: 
or fdisk /mbr

cheers!
--Raj.

On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 17:19, Martin Hicks wrote:
> 
> I have to upgrade a windows-only machine from a 3GB disk to something much
> larger.  This is a production machine so I figured I'd use linux to do the
> file copying and stuff.  I'm going to:
> 
> 1) stick the new disk in as /dev/hdc
> 2) format the disk vfat
> 3) copy all the data from /dev/hda1 to /dev/hdc1
> 4) move the hdc disk to the hda position
> 
> My question is:
> 
> How do I make my new disk windows bootable?  Does anyone remember this?
> Do I just have to toggle the bootable flag in fdisk?
> 
> I guess I *could* just install lilo or grub in the mbr, but I'd rather not.
> 
> thanks
> mh
> 
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