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Date:	Sat, 27 Aug 2005 21:09:06 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: HDD cloning / migration

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J R FOX wrote:
>
> The last time I checked -- and that was
> probably around ver. 7.05 -- DFSEE was quite
> restricted re making changes involving NTFS
> partitions, such as resizing or moving them.

I'm not trying to tell you how to do your job, but resizing a partition
can be a high blood pressure experience if you get any kind of failure
while it's running. Aren't you better off by copying/cloning the
partition, deleting the old partition and recreating it in the desired
size, and then XCOPYing the files from the copy/clone to the new
partition?

I've had a small number of drive failures while resizing partitions.
One was on HPFS which didn't like a partition with "too many bad
sectors" -- a situation I didn't know existed until the resize was
already running. (I had a backup.) Another was about four years ago
when a car took out the electrical pole outside and I didn't have a UPS
on the system because I was still installing it. (I had a backup.) And
although not a resize operation, I've had two backup drives fail over
the years while making backups.

So just be careful, okay? Safety makes things a bit more complex but
it's, umm, "safer".

- Peter

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