Disk imaging for XP system

[Mark Komarinski]

Chris wrote:
> Hello All
>
> I have an XP system which I want to migrate from a 250GB IDE drive to 
> a 500GB SATA drive, is there a live CD and package that would allow me 
> to do that, I have tried Norton Ghost (2003) but that can't see the 
> SATA drive, and I have also tried Powerquest partition magic image 
> center with no luck because that barfs on some directory entry.
>
> WIll dd or some other program do the job or will I have to try to find 
> some other package?
I did this on my wife's machine some time ago (thought it was IDE to 
IDE).  Try g4l which is a bootable CD or USB stick.  It should allow you 
to go disk-to-disk, then use gparted to expand the NTFS partition.  Once 
you reboot XP, it will go through and do a disk check and you'll be set.

-Mark