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. 


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Neil Bothwick

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