> > But the OP's new drive is larger, so I assume that he will be > > rearranging partitions afterwards - could be wrong. > > So if you've got to rearrange the partitions anyway, it is easier to just > dd the whole thing in one go and then do the rearranging. > > Alternatively, set up the new partition table manually and them copy each > filesystem. dding the partition table separately from all the partitions > makes no sense. > > Yes the new drive is bigger, going from 66G to 500G. Single partition only, but IIRC there is a 100MB unlabelled space (doesnt come up with fdisk -l). Is this is an OEM recovery hidden partition?
So how do i proceed? Is it; 1. dd the mbr without partition table, to get the boot code (so bs=446 count=1) 2. use fdisk to set one big primary partition, mark it bootable and NTFS (type 7) 3. dd into what will be /dev/sdb1 Then what? Will I be able to expand NTFS or it is better to make sure parition size = NTFS filesystem size so it doesnt get confused, the boot into windows and expand it? Thanks again.
