On 2007-12-27, Doug Mitton <doug_mitton********.x.com> wrote:
> Hello again, this is a second part to my "Holiday Drive Recovery" post
> made a few moments ago.
>
> There have been some threads in the past several months on how to
> recover a hard drive installation using the `dd` command between to
> mismatched drive sizes. I just can't seem to find them. Does anyone
> have any links or a procedure?
>
> What I'm referring to is ... `dd` the drive image from a smaller
> partition to a larger partition ... now the problem is the larger
> partition thinks it is the same size as the smaller one. There had
> been a thread at one point of some commands to recover the lost space
> ... for both Linux and MSWin as I (seem to) remember.
>
> Any pointers or comments would be appreciated. TIA!

Hmm. I use Ghost, myself. But I know it's not an option to everyone.
Just happen to need it for Windows, too.

But just a idea: get the iso for GPartEd CD and look at the bigger disk. You
might find that it can correct the problem. Not sure, but have a look.

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