[TriLUG] upgrading to a bigger HD

[Jason Faulkner]

Wouldn't dd work for that? Not sure of the exact command off the top
of my head, but I believe dd will do what you want.

--Jay

On 6/8/05, Christopher L Merrill <chris at webperformanceinc.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to upgrade my Thinkpad to a new HD.  It has WinXP on it.
> I've tried Ghost 9.0, but no joy (it looks like Ghost isn't as good
> as it used to be).   Basically, I need to copy the partitions to a
> new, larger HD, along with the MBR.
> 
> Since I've been looking for an excuse to try out Knoppix, is there
> any tool on Knoppix (or any other CD-bootable Linux distro) that
> would help me accomplish this task?
> 
> Note that I don't need the partitions resized (although it would be
> a bonus!), I could use Partition Magic, if necessary.  There is a
> combination of NTFS and FAT32 partitions on the drive.
> 
> 
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