[ltp] Re: Upgrade HD

[David Sudjiman]

> 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?
> 
> > 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?

Well, let me get this straight.

I need to copy winxp partition which is ntfs to a new HD. Any ideas?

thx
.dave

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