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Simon Williams wrote: > Rob Beard wrote: >> I'd boot off a Live CD (Knoppix, Ubuntu etc) and then partition your new >> drive how you want it. Then mount the old partitions and the new >> partitions and copy everything over as Neil suggested. > > I would just be using cp -a: that's what I used when I changed laptop, > but that required a reinstall of windows anyway. I'm trying to do it > without disturbing winxp. I'm not really expecting cp -a to work here, > though I could be wrong. Perhaps the main reason for this is that NTFS > write support is very new and hasn't implemented all the special > functions yet. I really would rather use dd. I'm surprised no-one has > written a tool to do this easily. > >> You'd also have to install a boot loader (Grub for instance) which might >> be just a case of running grub-install hd0 and updating your fstab (if >> it uses UID's or volume labels instead of just plain hold /dev/sda1, 2, >> 3 etc...). > > Reinstalling the bootloader is expected and not a problem. > >> Make sure you copy and not move too, that way if things screw up you can >> go back to the smaller drive (and just a thought, is the plain old IDE >> drive /dev/sdb or /dev/hdb?) > > Of course (but thanks anyway- I have been known to do very stupid things). > you can use dd and gparted to work the magic... I recall seeing a linux "rescue" disk around on the internet, but I can't recall exactly where.. it had things like, fdisk, dd and gparted on it.. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html