[Cialug] How to copy 2 drives to 1

[David Bierce]

I've come across this type of situation a few times in my past and  
found the best way is to dd the old drive or array to the new one,  
partition tables and all, from your linux live cd.  Then use a  
utility like partition magic to resize the NTFS.  The best part is  
there is no playing with the NTLoader if you remove the old disk (or  
array) and you maintain the original data.

Linux solution for every windows problem,
Dave

On Jun 8, 2007, at 11:47 AM, Tim Wilson wrote:

> Hypothetical (or not) scenario.  Let's say I have 2 drives, each  
> with 2 partitions.  They're fairly small in GB, and are out of  
> room.  So I would like to move them to one larger drive.  One drive  
> has windows on it, the other has Suse.  The windows drive has a  
> recovery partition on it, and an NTFS partition.  I know I can use  
> dd, but would windows still see it as a 19GB partition instead of  
> 30 GB?  I was thinking I could use tar, or Ghost, or maybe even  
> those disk copy utilities that often come with new drives.  Anyone  
> have a better way, or a suggestion on how to proceed?  I also know  
> that when completed I need to fix the master boot record.  How  
> would I go about doing that?
>
> -- 
> Tim
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