[Novalug] Need advice on copying a Windows drive`

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

Partition Magic can shrink and stretch partitions. It will change the 
Partition Table as well as the size of the Filesystem.

I use it all the time to resize NTFS partitions on XP.

JIM

P.S. If the Partition is already at the max, you may have to shrink it 
first, then extend it back.

On 7/4/2010 1:59 PM, Jay Hart wrote:
> Update:
>
> Using Clonezilla, I cloned the XP drive (4GB) to a 20GB drive, single partition.
> I placed the new drive in service.
>
> However, Windows is still reporting C Drive as 4.01GB with 823MB free.  The
> Disk Management tool (LDM) shows the partition as a 19.05GB NTFS partition.
>
> I've rebooted several times hoping Windows would update this to reflect the
> larger partition.
>
> Anyone know how I can fix this?  I'm  afraid if I don't resolve this then I
> will still have problems adding programs later on.
>
> Jay
>
>    
>> Igor,
>>
>> Can you contact me offlist reagrding duplicating a Windows Drive.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jay
>>
>>      
>>> I believe you should be able to copy it using dd.  I'd copy the 4GB
>>> drive to a 4GB file as an ISO to have the backup.  You could then use
>>> GPartd to expand the exploded partition.
>>>
>>> This is the Linux approach.  Ghost is a Windows tool for such.  Igor
>>> might provide a better answer...  He runs a small company in Herndon off
>>> Spring St.
>>>
>>> Rich
>>>
>>> On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 20:08 -0400, Jay Hart wrote:
>>>        
>>>> Rich,
>>>>
>>>> My wife's XP box has a 4GB drive as the C Drive.  I'm getting tired of
>>>> having
>>>> to find crap to delete in order to maintain sufficient space for ops.
>>>>
>>>> I want to copy the entire drive at one shot and replace with a bigger
>>>> drive.
>>>> What would you recommend to get this done?
>>>>
>>>> Jay
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>>
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