-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 [Sent later] On 2010-06-24 08:00, David C. Rankin wrote:
What I am trying to do is add a lager hd to my son's computer that he has outgrown the windows partition on. The drive is presently partitioned as follows:
sda sda1 - 40G Primary with XP sda5 - 2G swap sda6 - 20G / sda7 - 53G /home
What I am trying to do is install a new 250G drive. The plan is to install the new drive as hd0 and then copy the 40G primary too the new drive and then grow it to 210G leaving roughly 30G unpartitioned at the end for whatever.
That's where I'm stuck. If I'm going to go the dd route, does anybody have a quick cheat-sheet that tells how to optimize the copy blocksize working with ntfs? That one area I haven't mucked around a lot and God forbid I mess up my son's Steam Counter-Strike install trying to do this.
As long as you don't write to the old disk, you are safe. I think you have to clone first the partition table, with dd, then the first partition (just give the blocksize a very big size that is smaller than your available ram, considering what is used by the rest of the programs). Then you have to repair the partition table so that the real size of the entire disk is seen. Or create a partition sdb1 of 40G (or better, the exact number of sectors sda1 has), and dd it. But you have to get the MBR there too, perhaps, in order to boot it. Then boot windows in the new disk, and use windows to resize itself, to 200GB. It should work. In theory. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREIAAYFAkwkRMMACgkQja8UbcUWM1xVEAD8Cb/6oI+tDilHfp1YtZahvjuG oxhGUZYDBRAk8ckeYCEA/1lBRgWlAu5XtdP5hJM9VFlx1xPKJqfvahX2wbIL7tKr =P4ky -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org