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On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Stroller |
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<stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>wrote: |
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> On 16/5/2011, at 12:56pm, Adam Carter wrote: |
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> > ... |
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> > Yes the new drive is bigger, going from 66G to 500G. Single partition |
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> only, ... |
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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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> Just `dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb` if you can. |
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Done - and its worked. |
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Here's what i did; |
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1. Take existing drive out of laptop and connect to Gentoo box using an |
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esata box, then |
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sphinx ~ # dd if=/dev/sdb bs=10M conv=notrunc,noerror | gzip > windisk.gz |
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5723+1 records in |
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5723+1 records out |
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60011642880 bytes (60 GB) copied, 5667.78 s, 10.6 MB/s |
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For interests sake, windows reports that 51gig is in use, which along with |
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the free space has compressed down to |
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sphinx ~ # ls -lh win* |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37G May 17 12:29 windisk.gz |
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2. Swap existing disk to new drive, then |
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sphinx ~ # gunzip -c windisk.gz | dd of=/dev/sdb bs=10M conv=notrunc |
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0+1819751 records in |
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0+1819751 records out |
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60011642880 bytes (60 GB) copied, 940.652 s, 63.8 MB/s |
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3. Boot into windows. After login it says "You must restart your computer to |
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apply these changes", so i restart. Then go into Disk managment and select |
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"Extend Volume", which immediately makes all the space was immediately |
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available. Paranoia says run a disk check, which windows offers to schedule |
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at next reboot. I accept and reboot, check runs and no errors are reported, |
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so im :) |
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Thanks again list! |