Oh yeah, I forgot about G4L. Thanks for the reminder.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Champion</b> <<a href="mailto:dchampion@visionary.com">dchampion@visionary.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 done this sort of thing with G4L (Ghost for Linux).<br><br>-dc<br>
<br>David Bierce wrote:<br>> I've come across this type of situation a few times in my past and found<br>> the best way is to dd the old drive or array to the new one, partition<br>> tables and all, from your linux live cd. Then use a utility like
<br>> partition magic to resize the NTFS. The best part is there is no<br>> playing with the NTLoader if you remove the old disk (or array) and you<br>> 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 with<br>>> 2 partitions. They're fairly small in GB, and are out of room. So I
<br>>> would like to move them to one larger drive. One drive has windows on<br>>> it, the other has Suse. The windows drive has a recovery partition on<br>>> it, and an NTFS partition. I know I can use dd, but would windows
<br>>> still see it as a 19GB partition instead of 30 GB? I was thinking I<br>>> could use tar, or Ghost, or maybe even those disk copy utilities that<br>>> often come with new drives. Anyone have a better way, or a suggestion
<br>>> on how to proceed? I also know that when completed I need to fix the<br>>> master boot record. How would I go about doing that?<br>>><br>>> --<br>>> Tim<br>>> _______________________________________________
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