[aklug] Re: [NUGA] Copying Windows System to Smaller Drive

GParted is great. You can shrink your C: partition, then copy both the C:
partition and the recovery partition to the smaller drive and not have to
worrky about windows freaking out.

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Jeremy Austin <jhaustin@gmail.com> wrote:

> I recommend gparted. If you change the number and/or order of partitions,
> you may need to manually edit BOOT.INI
>
> IIRC
>
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Christopher Howard <
> christopher@alaskasi.com> wrote:
>
>> I've got to copy a hard drive with a Windows system on it onto a smaller
>> (replacement) hard drive. My approach was to just shrink the C: partition
>> down small enough so that everything would fit on the smaller drive, and
>> then just do a block-level copy with dd. Seems simple enough. The only
>> oddity is that, for whatever reason, Windows install puts the 1GB Recovery
>> Partition /after/ C: partition, so that after shrinking C: partition, there
>> is like 70 GB of unallocated space between them, and the Recovery Partition
>> is stuck way at the far end of the drive, foiling my plans.
>>
>> Can I just delete that Recovery Partititon? Windows Disk Management tool
>> won't allow me to do it, but I'm sure my tools will. Personally, I don't
>> care about having a Recovery Partition because I just I use my custom-made
>> LXDE/Debian usb stick to do recoveries.
>>
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