Cloning drive into bigger drive

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Author Message   David Marques Username: dmarques Registered: N/A Posted on Wednesday, Jun 18, 2008 - 16:51:    Hi, I have a 60 Gb drive with only 20 Gb of data in 1 partition. I need to clone this drive into a bigger one, a 500 Gb drive. Is it possible to clone the 60 Gb partition into a 500 Gb partition? Thanks.   Stefan Fleischmann Username: admin Registered: 1-2001 Posted on Wednesday, Jun 18, 2008 - 17:02:    Sure, if the number of sectors on the destination is not smaller than the number of sectors on the source, you can copy sectors from anywhere to anywhere else. Merely copying sectors from A to B, however, of course does not somehow magically re-adjust the file system that may or may not be contained in the partition to a larger partition size.   René Axnix Username: reax Registered: N/A Posted on Wednesday, Jun 18, 2008 - 17:07:    Hello! Try the Ultimate Boot CD. There are some freeware cloning tools on it (p.e. HDClone).   David Marques Username: dmarques Registered: N/A Posted on Wednesday, Jun 18, 2008 - 17:43:    Ok. Got the point. I'll try it out.