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> > But the OP's new drive is larger, so I assume that he will be |
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> > rearranging partitions afterwards - could be wrong. |
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> So if you've got to rearrange the partitions anyway, it is easier to just |
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> dd the whole thing in one go and then do the rearranging. |
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> Alternatively, set up the new partition table manually and them copy each |
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> filesystem. dding the partition table separately from all the partitions |
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> makes no sense. |
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Yes the new drive is bigger, going from 66G to 500G. Single partition only, |
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but IIRC there is a 100MB unlabelled space (doesnt come up with fdisk -l). |
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Is this is an OEM recovery hidden partition? |
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So how do i proceed? Is it; |
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1. dd the mbr without partition table, to get the boot code (so bs=446 |
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count=1) |
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2. use fdisk to set one big primary partition, mark it bootable and NTFS |
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(type 7) |
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3. dd into what will be /dev/sdb1 |
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Then what? Will I be able to expand NTFS or it is better to make sure |
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parition size = NTFS filesystem size so it doesnt get confused, the boot |
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into windows and expand it? |
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Thanks again. |
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