Here is a "me, too" story to add to the archives. I bought a Dell Mini 10 with XP Home installed on a 160gb drive. I spent quite a while installing apps, data, music, etc. and found myself running out of space.
I purchased a new 500gb sata drive so I could move all the data from the 160gb to the new larger drive. I tried Ghost and a couple other Windows "imaging" programs with no success. So, I downloaded the latest Fedora Live .ISO and the utility to make a bootable FLASH drive. On a 1gb SD card to be exact. I'm using a USB-to-SATA adapter by the way to connect the 500gb drive to the system. I launched 'dd' and copied the entire 160gb structure (restore partitions and all) to the new 500gb drive. I then fired up Windows again and used a program called PartionMaster (not Magic) to stretch and move the partitions to their correct place and size. I'm sure there is an equivalent Linux version of PartitionMaster...but I was too lazy to research that part. Anyways, I now have a nice 500gb drive in my netbook. And it looks just like it came from the factory that way. Bill -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of BenTheMeek Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 9:33 AM To: NLUG Subject: [nlug] Re: Another system saved by live disk Just as an aside on this. I recently downloaded and tried Clonezilla, G4Linux, and the SystemRescueCD to attempt to move a 40 Gig Partition that was only about half full- to a 30 gig drive or so. None of them would let me clone that partition to the drive because of the space mismatch. This is despite only having about 20 gigs used. (Yes I know one of the solutions is to use gparted- resize and then clone). Norton Ghost(at least the older versions), however does it all in one step and will let you copy larger partitions to smaller drives be resizing based on free space. (I needed as simple a process as possible because this was going to have to be done to about 30 machines by users that were not as IT-savy as I was). It is also important to note that sometime in the recent past Ghost has undergone some changes and -at least the non-enterprise version- does not have that ghost.exe we used to be able to run from a cd or floppy to copy hard drives and partitions. I'm not sure which version dropped ghost.exe (the dos executable) but you can try and deciper that from here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_(software). I can only report that Norton Ghost 14 does not have that executable any longer. -BenTheMeek --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
