sbeast

right now ive got a 120gb drive and a 1tb drive. long story short, the only thing on the 120gb drive is windows xp, but my program files/updates for XP are on a small partition on my big drive.

is it possible to transfer that entire partition over to the 120gb drive, so that i can have all my XP stuff on 1 physical drive, and everything else on the big drive?

jfizz84

i dont think u can do that in that way....best way to do it is copy the whole partition, and paste it in ur 120 gigger

FiX

Yeah just copy from command prompt and paste on 120 gig drive.

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lattyware

If you want a true clone, boot onto a Linux LiveCD of your choice, and do

dd /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1

Where /dev/sda1 is the partition you want to copy and /dev/sdb1 is the empty partition you wish to copy to.

This does a byte-for-byte copy.

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Grim

There are a few programs out there that can do this.

I've just realized how TIRED I am - I need to sleep - I can only remember ONE.

(which is because - its the best IMO).

PARAGON PARTITION MANAGER.
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It'll sort you out lol

Its a program worth EVERY DOLLAR. It has MANY uses.
And I promise you that if you can.. procure this peice of software, you wont regret it.

lattyware

Or just use gparted which is free, and just as good.

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Grim

Ahh!

gparted is a great simple one.

Its a tad on the simplistic side though - Paragon's has quite a few more features.

sbeast

so, i should be able to do a simpe copy paste from the cmd prompt and it'll move everything, then all i shoud have to do is give the partition the same drive letter as the old one so that it doesn't mess with the file paths?

stanglx302

You can download Acronis True Image and use it free for 15 days. I tried a whole bunch before and this one worked the best.

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Sethy666

Or you can use EASUS partition magic...
http://www.partition-tool.com/download.htm

Use it all the time and is very easy to use.

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