[ltp] Upgrade HD

[Bret Comstock Waldow]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 02:43, Eben King wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 05:47, Jim Harvey wrote:
> > > > What should I do?
> > >
> > > Try the tar trick.  Mount the new partition as /mnt/new, cd to the old
> > > partition and: tar cf - ./* | (cd /mnt/new ; tar xf -)
> > > I've had good luck copying windows 98.  No XP or NTFS here to try it
> > > out. This will not copy the bootloader.   You have to fdisk /mbr to get
> > > windows
> >
> > I have been using dd to back up my disk, and it always works with Win98,
> > and has never worked with Windows 2000.
>
> Is it W98 vs W2K, or FAT32 vs NTFS?

I recall it being FAT32, but I'm not using it now, so I'm not certain.  In 
it's place, I am running W98SE with FAT32.

Bolstering my recall is that I successfully ran APM hibernate via the T21 
BIOS, which required a file on a FAT32 partition for this BIOS.

>
> > But I suspect the structure of 2000 & XP is different in some way from
> > 98, et al, such that something tricky is required.
>
> Some particular method of copying, and then ntfsresize?
>
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