[NTLUG:Discuss] HDD recovery

[Leroy Tennison]

Eric answered the first two questions, for the third the answer is Yes.  
I replaced a few hundred MB drive with a terabyte one and did just that 
on openSUSE.  I did have a few "slivers" of hard disk space between 
existing multiple partitions, possibly because I didn't think about 
Eric's advice.  I suspect even Windows Disk Manager could do the job 
(oh, that's right, you did say Vista, Hmmm...).

On 10/15/2015 06:01 PM, Fred wrote:
> It is said that to ask a question, one must know most of the answer. In my case,
> "most" certainly doesn't mean "all", so here goes:
>
> I friend has a Vista system with an error message about imminent hdd failure,
> probably from S.M.A.R.T. He is obviously upset because of no backups (ever)
> and about a gig of total usage (os + data).
>
> I can bring his hdd here and dd his old 320G drive to a new 500G but having never
> actually having cloned a drive to a larger one, I have a few questions:
>
> 1) dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/sdY is the basic cmd but how do I decide what bs to use?
> What about other options?
> 2) Will this clone the disk including the MBR? My guess is yes...
> 3) What to do after the dd cmd? How to make the remaining 180G (or so) available?
> If parted will do it, how?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Fred
>
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