*I'm sorry, I forgot to add the mailing list to the recipient list :( Here is my initial answer to Robert :)
===SNIP=== Hi Robert, > I would like to copy a Windows 2000 Professional (Service Pack 4) hard > disk with this partition arrangement (as listed by diskmgmt.msc): > > Drive letter C: is listed as a healthy SYSTEM partition, type FAT, and > is 502 Mb in length > Drive letter D: is listed as the BOOT partiton, type NTFS, and is 4.54 > Gb in length > Drive letter E: is listed as a healthy partition, type FAT, and is 996 > Mb in length [clone to larger 40 GB WD400JB drive] > I would also like to copy from the source drive, to the target drive, > but expand the target drive's partitions so that all 3 partitions are > equally sized (roughly 12 gb each * 3 partitons is about the true size > of the target drive. > > Can g4u do this for me? On various occasions, I've used g4u to clone a smaller disk to a larger one, for my home server, it has been the third time that the primary hard disk is replaced with a larger one :) g4u can only create perfect clones. You will need an additional tool to resize the partitions after cloning is complete. I recommend using gparted (http://gparted.sourceforge.net) for this. With the one of the latest versions, gparted can do basically everything that tools like Partition Magic can do, too - with an important difference: gparted just works. :D Download the gparted live CD (links can be found on the aforementioned web site) which will give you a graphical user interface similar to that of diskmgmt.msc - move the last partition to its new place, then grow it, move the middle partition and grow it, and eventually grow the first partition. Note: gparted will set the "dirty" flag on all partitions it touches so that Windows will run chkdsk on each of them when it boots afterwards. This is normal, desired behaviour and no fault. As usual, there are no guarantees that gparted will do anything but wipe your hard disk and creating a backup (ah, g4u comes in very handy!) prior to the partition manipulations is just mandatory :) If there are any more questions, feel free to ask, and please report back when you're done :) Best regards, Andre ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ g4u-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
