Would I be able to resize with gparted? It is on my KUbuntu disc. I don't have Partition Magic.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Bierce</b> <<a href="mailto:operations@cynicbytrade.com">
operations@cynicbytrade.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I've come across this type of situation a few times in my past and
<br>found the best way is to dd the old drive or array to the new one,<br>partition tables and all, from your linux live cd. Then use a<br>utility like partition magic to resize the NTFS. The best part is<br>there is no playing with the NTLoader if you remove the old disk (or
<br>array) and you maintain the original data.<br><br>Linux solution for every windows problem,<br>Dave<br><br>On Jun 8, 2007, at 11:47 AM, Tim Wilson wrote:<br><br>> Hypothetical (or not) scenario. Let's say I have 2 drives, each
<br>> with 2 partitions. They're fairly small in GB, and are out of<br>> room. So I would like to move them to one larger drive. One drive<br>> has windows on it, the other has Suse. The windows drive has a
<br>> recovery partition on it, and an NTFS partition. I know I can use<br>> dd, but would windows still see it as a 19GB partition instead of<br>> 30 GB? I was thinking I could use tar, or Ghost, or maybe even
<br>> those disk copy utilities that often come with new drives. Anyone<br>> have a better way, or a suggestion on how to proceed? I also know<br>> that when completed I need to fix the master boot record. How
<br>> would I go about doing that?<br>><br>> --<br>> Tim<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Cialug mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:Cialug@cialug.org">Cialug@cialug.org</a><br>
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