How can I copy a partition from one hard drive to another and still have it be bootable (on windows)?
Not only won’t you be able to boot from it that way, you won’t be able to use any installed programs. Download a Linux Live CD (Ubuntu is a nice distro, but any of the 300+ currently available distros will do). Learn the dd command, at least as far as copying partitions. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/… Copy the partition, if=the current one, of=the new partition. You’ll have a clone on the new partition. (“if” is input file, “of” is output file), it will boot (you’ll have to change the partition table to mark it bootable) and when you boot from it, anything installed on the old partition will be installed on the old partition. (If you’re doing this to get rid of a virus, it won’t work – you’ll clone the virus too. dd copies blocks of data, it doesn’t even know about files or directories.) dd is basically the granddaddy of disk “ghost” programs. (And a few commerc
