Re: How to move an OS install from one primary partition to another?

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

> IMHO, your biggest problem won't be with copying/ghosting/dd-ing your
> Windows partition: your biggest (in fact, unsurmountable) problem will
> be all your C:\Windows and C:\Documents and Settings and C:\Program
> Files (and similar) references, hard-coded into your Windows Registry.
> IIRC from my (over forever, thankfully!) Windows days, there was no
> *easy* way to make a Registry, built on a C:\ drive to work reliably on
> a D:\, E:\ and so on. I think your best bet is to use the swap
> (hd0,hd1) command in Grub (the syntax is wrong, since I'm quoting from
> memory, but you surely know what I mean).

Swapping (hd0) and (hd1)

grub1:
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)

grub2:
drivemap -s (hd0) (hd1)