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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