On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 12:19:28AM +0000, Deepak Saxena wrote:
> I'm looking to upgrade the HD on my girlfriend's computer and
> I do not want to go through the hassle of having to reinstall
> WinXP and then have her reinstall all her applications and
> restore personal files. Is there something akin to Norton
> Ghost that I could use to image the filesystem from the old
> disk (6G) to the new disk (40G)? dd will allow me to copy
> the data over, but it would be stuck in a 6G partition on a
> 40G disk, which doesn't do me much good since I don't want
> multiple partitions/drive letters.
Hey Deepak,
I've had success both shrinking and expanding ntfs on a couple
of systems using ntfsresize on a Knoppix CD. Workeed without
a hitch. Just dd into the big partition then use ntfsresize.
-Dale
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