From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.46]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1EsgqW-0000Za-00 for ; Sat, 31 Dec 2005 08:32:32 -0500 Received: from [192.168.2.145] ([151.205.151.83]) by vms046.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0ISD008TC6Y6CEB4@vms046.mailsrvcs.net> for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Sat, 31 Dec 2005 07:32:32 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 08:32:29 -0500 From: Scott Howell In-reply-to: To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-id: <82BDC378-5EDD-4EA8-A628-FF3F63C6AB00@verizon.net> MIME-version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <321DA5C7-EDCF-42AA-A6DA-BC38A2056311@verizon.net> Subject: Re: moving contents from one drive to another X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 13:32:32 -0000 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. >