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Re: [LUG] Copying partitions to new (larger) HDD

 

Simon Williams <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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.

ntfsclone can clone an NTFS partition. It's also smart enough to not copy the
empty space (unlike dd).

Anthony
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