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On Monday 16 May 2011 20:54:58 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Mon, 16 May 2011 16:35:07 +0100, Mick wrote: |
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> > Only to add that the new larger drive will appear as small as the |
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> > original because the fs size is after all that of the smaller drive. |
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> > After your dd the data over to the new disk you will need to run |
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> > gparted as suggested by Stroller, or use ntfsresize which is what |
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> > gparted uses anyway. |
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> |
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> The drive will not appear small, only the partition. The same is true |
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> using the originally suggested method of copying the MBR and partition |
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> separately. |
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Oops! Sorry, I meant to say partition - just thinking about ntfs and "mapping |
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drives" in MSWindows was enough to confuse me ... :@ |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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