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Disk Partitioning, Images and Data Rescue (Cloning, Copying, Resizing, etc.)

Windows Partition Re-Sizing

Partition Magic has been discontinued as a product. We have version 8.0 at dism:/local/data/iso/Partition_Magic_8.iso

EPM seems pretty good and the simple version is free. The installer is at dism:/local/data/iso/epm_partition_manager_windows.exe and can resize Windows XP partitions without a reboot.

Windows 7 can do dynamic partition re-sizing

Cloning Partitions

Clonezilla seems to work. Can do Windows, Linux and Mac file-systems.

CD images are at dism:/local/data/iso/clonezilla-live-*

Based upon Linux. If cloning local disk to local disk you can copy the partition table from the source disk using expert mode which drops you to a Linux shell. Can then do things like:

sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdb
fdisk /dev/sdb

Rescue Data

If a disk has problems (such as SMART errors) then ddrescue can often rescuce the data and copy it to another disk or a file.

The source data should be mounted readonly or unmounted to prevent writes during the copy

Some notes:

The copy attempts of sdc1-9QJ0PE4A just finished - you may notice that I upgraded the version of
ddrescue...  After the first pass I did it again with the -d (direct) option and 4 retries thus:

ddrescue -v -d -r 3 /dev/sdc1 sdc1-9QJ0PE4A sdc1-9QJ0PE4A.ddrlog

# Other examples:
ddrescue -v -r 1 /dev/sdc1 sdc1-9QJ0PE4A sdc1-9QJ0PE4A.ddrlog

# rescue of data on pluto /local/data2 to spare disk
ddrescue -v -d -r 3 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /root/sdc1-ddr.log