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Date:	Mon, 29 Aug 2005 09:08:46 PDT7
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: HDD cloning / migration

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Peter Skye wrote:

>
> 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?

No. Xcopy is from yesteryear. The trick is to never mess with an
active partition. Preferably it is done while booted from something
other than the HDD being worked on, so that the whole HDD is "inert".

Jordon, keep in touch. I have an XP laptop I need to reconfigure. So
far I have been unable to save the XP installation. My last resort is
to pull the HDD and plug it into a desktop and clone it on another HDD
there-- yes I have the adapter.

Ray

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