[ltp] Re: Upgrade HD

[Eben King]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Christopher Sawtell wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:19, David Sudjiman wrote:
> 
> > I need to copy winxp partition which is ntfs to a new HD. Any ideas?
> 
> use the dd command to do a bit for bit copy of the partition to the new disc.
> It's completely irrelevent what the partition holds for this copying method.
> It'll take a while, but you can leave the computer chugging away overnight.

That'd be my first try, then use ntfsresize on the new partition to expand 
the filesystem and partition to the desired size.  Maybe use the OS CD to 
fix the boot block afterward?

> You might care to make the blocksize bigger, like the size of a cylinder, and 
> the count to be the actual cylinder count of the partition. This will speed 
> the data transfer considerably.

If you don't know how big that is, fdisk -l will tell you:

Your numbers may vary -vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
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| Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
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> Alternatively why not use Windows? Being a Unix geek, I haven't a clue how, 
> but I'd be very surprised if it's not possible.

It's probably _possible_, but while that is an esoteric task in Windows and 
it takes high-powered tools to have any control, it's much easier to get 
done what you want in Linux.

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