Tod Thomas wrote: > I know this is a little off topic. I did google around looking for the > correct forum to post this question but had little luck. If anyone can > make an informed suggestion I'd very much appreciate it. > > I have a 150GB ATA disk, /dev/hdb, containing winxp. I'd like to move > the contents to an spare 80GB ATA disk, /dev/hda, to make room for a > full install of FC10 on the larger disk in preparation for ultimately > getting the winxp install running under a linux based VM. > > From knoppix, I started by using ntfsresize to shrink the xp partition > down to 20GB. That worked suprisingly fine. > I then installed the smaller drive and used dd to copy over the image of > the xp installation: dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hda bs=10000000 count=2000 > > I rebooted and voila! it worked - sort of. The new disk boots xp but it > still, according to fdisk, thinks its 150GB. So I used fdisk to delete > and redefine the xp partition (primary, bootable type=7) with the new > size of the drive, 20GB. After rebooting xp came up but then started > quickly blue screening a message I couldn't read, and rebooting. This > repeated in a loop until I just rebooted. I tried the whole process > over again but this time specified 80GB to dd and fdisk, same disaster. > > I tried everything again, but this time instead of fdisk I fired up > gparted to see if I could resize from there hoping that if it could some > magic would also fix the invalid sizing detected by fdisk. gparted > could see the drive but couldn't recognize it as having anything it > could work with. I highlighted the drive and the progress bar stayed gray. > > So far it seems I can use the drive this way without causing xp any > problems. The issue is things just don't look right and I suspect it > will come back to bite me one day. I'm not an expert at manipulating > bits on a hard drive just yet. Could someone point me to my error? Is > what I'm trying do-able? If its a conceptual problem a little education > would come in handy too. > You would be better off using parted or one of the GUI interfaces for it. It will resize, as well as copy/move partitions. It is a much better tool for doing things like this then dd is. One other note - make sure you run defrag on the disk in windows before trying to resize partitions. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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