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Rob Beard wrote: > I'd boot off a Live CD (Knoppix, Ubuntu etc) and then partition your new > drive how you want it. Then mount the old partitions and the new > partitions and copy everything over as Neil suggested. I would just be using cp -a: that's what I used when I changed laptop, but that required a reinstall of windows anyway. I'm trying to do it without disturbing winxp. I'm not really expecting cp -a to work here, though I could be wrong. Perhaps the main reason for this is that NTFS write support is very new and hasn't implemented all the special functions yet. I really would rather use dd. I'm surprised no-one has written a tool to do this easily. > You'd also have to install a boot loader (Grub for instance) which might > be just a case of running grub-install hd0 and updating your fstab (if > it uses UID's or volume labels instead of just plain hold /dev/sda1, 2, > 3 etc...). Reinstalling the bootloader is expected and not a problem. > Make sure you copy and not move too, that way if things screw up you can > go back to the smaller drive (and just a thought, is the plain old IDE > drive /dev/sdb or /dev/hdb?) Of course (but thanks anyway- I have been known to do very stupid things). -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html