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Thread ID: 55227	2005-03-05 21:43:00	Copy Partions to new drive	roofus (483)	Press F1

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331090	2005-03-05 21:43:00	G'day. Space is running out on my present machine so i am thinking of sticking in a substantially larger drive. Presently i have about 3 or 4 partions on my old drive. I want to copy these partions to the new drive, but at the same time expand them eg, at the moment they are 10G and i want to expand them to say 20G. and while doing all of this still maintaining the ability to boot windowsxp from the new expanded partion. I have Norton Ghost, what is the method or apps i need to do this. thanks	roofus (483)
331091	2005-03-05 21:58:00	I think Partition Magic might be able to do something like that. I really havnt worked with it very much but iv heard it has some pretty nifty stuff in there. Might want to check it out.	Cstchie (7385)
331092	2005-03-05 22:04:00	Hi Roofus, This is how I went about it. Fit the new drive and set it up as a slave. Partition it to how you want it set up. If your present drive is partitioned, then you obviously have the where-withall to do this. If not, Seagate have a free utility on their website to do this. For all but your boot partition, just move the entire contents of each partition from the old drive to the new drive partition. This will leave you plenty of space on your old drive to make a ghost image of your boot partition. You have to do this from DOS, so you need to make a Ghost Boot disk and boot the PC from this. You must create the image in a separate partition from the one being imaged, so use one of the now empty partitions on your old drive. Once you have created the image, use it to image the boot partition on the new drive. If you are going to remove the old drive, then do so and set the new one as the master. If you are keeping the old drive, make it the slave. regards, andy	andy (473)
331093	2005-03-05 22:04:00	roofus you have kinda answered your own question. you have nortons ghost so go use it :).	tweak'e (69)
331094	2005-03-06 07:03:00	Yes Ghost will know the new partitions are bigger than the old and ask you if thats what you want to do, select yes and no worries.	pctek (84)
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