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+ <B>andre999</B>
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+ <I>Mon Nov 14 10:45:41 CET 2011</I>
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+<PRE>Morgan Leijstr&#246;m a &#233;crit :
+&gt;<i> m&#229;ndagen den 14 november 2011 09.37.33 skrev Juergen Harms:
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> The hard drive containing my system partitions is dying. I can still
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> read it, but will have to rapidly replace it by a new (and bigger) drive.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Try to avoid writing to it as temporary faults may screw files up....
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>Good point.
+
+&gt;&gt;<i> Does somebody have experience with - rather re-installing Mga and
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Windows-7 partition - simply copying the corresponding file-system
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> (piped tar) and then just recreating the boot sector - would be much
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> quicker, in particular for the windows partition? Any particular
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> precautions to take?
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Once i simply booted a live system, used dd to copy from old to bigger larger
+</I>&gt;<i> drive, then gparted to extend (not move) windows partition, and i think i just
+</I>&gt;<i> moved and extended home while deleting linux system and reinstalled.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Using dd on the whole disk ( /dev/sdx (whthout number ) take the whole drive
+</I>&gt;<i> including boot sector and whatever.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Of course you can dd to a file on a mounted large drive too, to make a backup
+</I>&gt;<i> as soon as possible and then from the file to new drive at later time.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>
+I've used a similar approach a few times on portables, to just install a
+larger disk.
+Booting to systemrescuecd (a live cd, <A HREF="http://www.sysresccd.org/">http://www.sysresccd.org/</A>), I used
+gparted to format the new drive (attached via usb), and copied the
+Ms-windows C partition, ensuring that it starts on the same sector.
+(Which produces an exact copy like DD.)
+Then I used gparted to copy (and resize at the same time) the other
+partitions (Ms-windows D + linux). (This does copy + resize in one
+step, so faster.)
+It is important to do it when not running from the old drive, hence
+using a live cd.
+(At least for swap and /; also /home if logged on to an account other
+than root.)
+
+After, I test-booted from the new drive, and if I wanted to, I resized
+the Ms C partition. I always use a D partition for data files + any
+programs that are supposed to run on Linux via wine, so usually there
+was no need to resize C. I usually set fstab so C is not normally
+mounted under Linux.
+I've done this with Ms-XP and -Vista, don't know if -7 would cause any
+problems.
+
+(I usually also use gdisk partition tables, with hybrid for Ms
+partitions, but that is another question.)
+
+--
+Andr&#233;
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