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

 

Simon Williams <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Rob Beard wrote:
>> The Seagate and Maxtor programs I was thinking of are Seagate DiscWizard 
>> which is here: 
>> http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=DiscWizard&vgnextoid=d9fd4a3cdde5c010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD
>> 
>> or Maxtor MaxBlast 5 which is here:
>> 
>> http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=MaxBlast_5&vgnextoid=7add8b9c4a8ff010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD
>> 
>> You do need a Seagate drive for DiscWizard or a Maxtor drive for 
>> MaxBlast, IIRC it just has to be attached to the machine for it to work 
>> and can probably be removed afterwards (although I can't confirm this, 
>> it may just let you image from one drive to a Seagate or Maxtor drive). 
>>   It also looks like it needs either Windows XP or access to a Windows 
>> XP/2003 Server machine with a Windows XP/Server 2003 installation CD 
>> which is used to create a bootable CD (it uses BartPE).
>
> That's overkill- it can be done fairly easily with dd, it's just the 
> sizing part that's making things difficult.

ntfsresize manages that quite well, once you've got the actual partition table
right.

Anthony
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