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

That's interesting, Pat. Is it superior to ddrescue, for when there are
actual errors to deal with?

I've relied on the block size arguments for dd, and the occasional
translations. Equivalents in cat, or irrelevant?

TIA

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 4:52 PM, Pat Borjon <borjonx@gmail.com> wrote:

> fwiw, I've been using dd to copy linux & ms discs for almost 20 years, and
> just last month found out cat is faster & appears to be less prone to disc
> errors.
>
> Pat
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Christopher Howard <
> christopher@alaskasi.com> wrote:
>
>> 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>
>> 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>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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