saikee,

I'm a Linux noob, I started looking at distributions about 4 weeks ago. I've read with great interest your tutorials on booting, cloning, and migrating. I appreciate the time and effort that you put forth in doing this. Following the instructions in your migrating XP to a larger hard disk tutorial I have successfully migrated XP from an 80 GB SATA to a 160 GB SATA. I am currently dual booting that PC (I need to find the LInux equivilant of one Windows program and then I can dump Windows totally).

My second attempt at migrating has been unsuccessful and I'm hoping that you can help. I tried to migrate XP from a 60 GB PATA to a 400 GB PATA. After a few minutes the process stops and I get the below message:

dd reading /dev/hda input/output error
310061+1 records in
310061+1 records out

(10.0 GB copied)

The 60 GB PATA disk has 40 GB in files so more than 10 GB should have been copied. I tried to boot from the new 400 GB PATA but of course it will not. I have done this twice and the error messages are exactly the same both times. The old 60 GB PATA successfully boots XP and has never given an indication of having a problem. Do you have any suggestions or ideas that I could try ?

Thank you.