[Cialug] How to copy 2 drives to 1

[Tim Wilson]

Would I be able to resize with gparted?  It is on my KUbuntu disc.  I don't
have Partition Magic.

On 6/8/07, David Bierce <operations at cynicbytrade.com> 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?
> >
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Tim
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