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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Cloning Win98 with BL3
  • Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:42:32 +1200

Message from Steven
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Sindi wrote:
>
> If the disks were identical I could have used dd
> to copy (including partition tables) with the
> appropriate block size for the drives to speed
> it up even more. I made a nice mess another time
> trying to do this with drives of different sizes.
> Windows would boot but then get confused about
> sizes of partitions later, claiming it did not
> have space when it did.
>
> Is there some way around this?

I believe you can use dd to copy a smaller HD to
a larger HD, but then (before you use the new HD)
you should create a new partition (using Linux
fdisk) to occupy all of the leftover space. It's
only a temporary partition -- you can reassign the
space later.

Cheers,
Steven







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