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Simon Williams <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. ntfsclone can clone an NTFS partition. It's also smart enough to not copy the empty space (unlike dd). Anthony -- Anthony Williams Just Software Solutions Ltd - http://www.justsoftwaresolutions.co.uk Registered in England, Company Number 5478976. Registered Office: 15 Carrallack Mews, St Just, Cornwall, TR19 7UL -- 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