[Cialug] How to copy 2 drives to 1

[Tim Wilson]

Oh yeah, I forgot about G4L.  Thanks for the reminder.

On 6/8/07, David Champion <dchampion at visionary.com> wrote:
>
> 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?
> >>
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Tim
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