And if Clonezilla can't do the resizing automatically (it doesn't always play nicely with NTFS), you should be able to resize the partition with GParted Live:
http://gparted.org/livecd.php -- Brad Beyenhof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://augmentedfourth.com No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. ~ Niels Bohr On May 09, 2014, at 07:29 AM, Branson Matheson <[email protected]> wrote:
Heya, clonezilla will do a nice job over the network or between local drives. You can get the 'live' cd image and boot it on a host and then replicate at will. http://clonezilla.org/ We use it extensively at NASA for replication and it will handle *some* resizing if it can understand the filesystem you're using. - b On May 9, 2014, at 10:25 AM, Morgan Blackthorne <[email protected] > wrote: > My wife is getting a new 500G SSD to replace her 240G SSD, and is looking > to do so without having to reinstall. I'm a bit out of this, having not > needed to do so for some time; what's a good drive cloning program that > will either clone and expand the drive to full capacity, or clone it with > the free space left as unpartitioned space so that I can have Windows 7 > expand it the rest of the way for her? > > Thanks. My $work retention bonus came in a bit bigger than we were > expecting, so we went ahead and picked up some tech items we'd been wanting > for a while... in her case, just about all the components for a full gaming > rig rebuild. I do have to send the CPU back to Newegg, however... Intel i7 > proc with 6 cores, ran about $580... and they shipped it in the flimsy > little box inside one of those plastic envelopes. The packaging is all beat > to shit, and I don't doubt the chip took some hard knocks through the > plastic. Color me very displeased with their shipping method, there. > Everything else arrived in great packaging. > > -- > ~*~ StormeRider ~*~ > > "Every world needs its heroes [...] They inspire us to be better than we > are. And they protect from the darkness that's just around the corner." > > (from Smallville Season 6x1: "Zod") > > On why I hate the phrase "that's so lame"... http://bit.ly/Ps3uSS > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
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