On Monday 16 May 2011 20:54:58 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 16 May 2011 16:35:07 +0100, Mick wrote:
> > Only to add that the new larger drive will appear as small as the
> > original because the fs size is after all that of the smaller drive.
> > After your dd the data over to the new disk you will need to run
> > gparted as suggested by Stroller, or use ntfsresize which is what
> > gparted uses anyway.
> 
> The drive will not appear small, only the partition. The same is true
> using the originally suggested method of copying the MBR and partition
> separately.

Oops!  Sorry, I meant to say partition - just thinking about ntfs and "mapping 
drives" in MSWindows was enough to confuse me ...  :@
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Regards,
Mick

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