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From: Stephen on 20 May 2010 17:33
On 20 May, 22:31, Stephen <srm...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20 May, 22:05, thewildro...(a)me.com (Andy Hewitt) wrote:
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> > T i m <n...(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote:
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> > > On Thu, 20 May 2010 20:30:46 +0100, thewildro...(a)me.com (Andy Hewitt)
> > > wrote:
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> > > I'm due to do a drive upgrade for a mate on Saturday. Ghost his drive
> > > over to the new one, reboot, job done. ;-)
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> > :-P
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> > I think Ghost would probably do the job, but as this is experiemental
> > stuff, it hardly warrants any expenditure, so free it'll have to be.
> > Might be worth trying CloneZilla.
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> > > >I just installed the new HD into Emily's new Mac, cloned, rebooted, job
> > > >done.
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> > > True, Apple OS's are good from that POV, similar to Linux, pity
> > > neither then work sufficiently well to be a solution for me. ;-(
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> > > Swings and roundabouts I guess.
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> > > I wonder what the Google OS will be like?
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> > The way their software behaves on my Mac, I'm uninclined to trust
> > anything important with it. I installed Picasa just to see what tools it
> > had, and whether it was worth recommending to the fogies here.
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> > Once I'd stopped the darned thing automatically importing all my images
> > (and I mean *all), and then working out that it was the Google Updater
> > that kept waking my MacBook during the night, it's now all been removed..
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> > > FWIW I tried this yesterday.
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> > >http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html
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> > > It booted from a LiveCD ok and mostly worked (it's still very
> > > unfinished) but whilst I think I can see the point of it (a non
> > > Windows OS that can run Windows apps) I'm not sure if that would then
> > > also mean it would be vulnerable to the same things (malware etc)?
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> > Hmmm, yes, I'm struggling on that one. It's not like you can't get XP
> > cheap enough these days anyway.
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> > It'd be interesting to see how it develops though.
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> > > I also reinstalled XP on the Oracle VB on 10.04. The utils found old
> > > images left over from previous experiments so I deleted them and
> > > started again. It runs so quickly (and easily with the guest stuff /
> > > drivers etc) XP was up and running in no time. Still no (working) USB
> > > though (ok Sun VB on 9.10 on the same machine).
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> > > Oh well, I'll keep playing  ... ;-)
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> > Likewise.
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> > --
> > Andy Hewitt
> > <http://web.me.com/andrewhewitt1/>
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> GParted can actually copy partitions from one drive to another as well
> as resize.
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> Looking back at what I probably did:
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> I knew GParted featured in there, and looking at their website (http://
> gparted.sourceforge.net/), I probably created a new virtual drive,
> added it to the VM, booted from GParted Live CD ISO, copied the
> partition to the new drive, and the resized it.

In fact doesn't this : http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/move/move.htm
describe exatly what you want to do?
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