Re: Software to clone disk and resize target partiions at same time?

Bob <am_dew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have a 160 gig drive that contains several partions, including a 10
> gig bootable "C: drive" partition that stores my OS (Windows XP SP2).
> All partitions are NTFS. I just bought a 320 gig drive and would like
> to clone the 160GB drive onto the 320 gig drive but I also would like
> to resize all of the partions while cloning if I can (eg. make the C:
> drive 15 gigs instead of the 10 it is now on the 160 gig drive).
>
> I remember doing this a few years ago when I cloned everything onto
> the 160 gig drive using either Partition Magic or Drive Image, but I
> cannot remember which one and that may have been before I convertedmy
> partitions from FAT32 to NTFS.
>
> I have Drive Image 7.0 and I thought it would allow me to clone a disk
> but it only lets me copy one partition at a time and even then the
> cloned partition cannot be resized in the cloning operation.

> Any suggestions on what software will not only clone an entire hard
> disk at once but alos allow me to resize the target partitions during
> the same operation?

True Image will do that fine.

Dont bother with Ghost, its completely hopeless for that,
basically because it cant do a clone from a booted CD
and that causes big problems with drive letters doing it
at the XP level, and its buggy and damned slow as well.


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