[Cialug] How to copy 2 drives to 1

[David Champion]

I've done this sort of thing with G4L (Ghost for Linux).

-dc

David Bierce wrote:
> 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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