moving contents from one drive to another

[Scott Howell]

Thanks, that is why I didn't want to use dd, they don't want to give  
up the space, but it could probably be partitioned
  and used. Well ay worse comes to worse, can do a fresh install  
which wouldn't be a bad thing either. Better yet, should just put  
Linux on there and their life would be soooo much easier...grin

On Dec 31, 2005, at 7:39 AM, Adam Myrow wrote:

> I did this once with GNU Parted.  As I recall, both drives have to  
> have the same cluster size, and I think it only works with FAT/ 
> FAT32, not NTFS. There are probably some  commercial products  
> capable of this as well.  In a real pinch, you could probably use  
> dd to do it, but the new drive would be a mirror image of the old.   
> Thus, it would have the same amount of free space as the old drive.
>