Thanks, that is why I didn't want to use dd, they don't want to give up the space, but it could probably be partitioned and used. Well ay worse comes to worse, can do a fresh install which wouldn't be a bad thing either. Better yet, should just put Linux on there and their life would be soooo much easier...grin On Dec 31, 2005, at 7:39 AM, Adam Myrow wrote: > I did this once with GNU Parted. As I recall, both drives have to > have the same cluster size, and I think it only works with FAT/ > FAT32, not NTFS. There are probably some commercial products > capable of this as well. In a real pinch, you could probably use > dd to do it, but the new drive would be a mirror image of the old. > Thus, it would have the same amount of free space as the old drive. >