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

Yeah, actually I did use GParted yesterday. It has "slide" functionality
which can slide a partition down the drive. So I shrunk C:, slide the
recovery partition down, and then just used dd to copy everything over
to the new drive. I found out that you want to have iotop running as
well because dd doesn't seem to provide any kind of progress or transfer
meter.

On 03/09/2016 03:00 PM, Josh wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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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