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I have XP on my laptop, but only because it came with it. I got rid
ofmost of the bloat crap, but I still dislike it. I'd like to install a
larger harddrive in that laptop, but I cant, because although the XP is
licensed and legal, it did not come with an install CD. I refuse to buy
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To clone your current 40Gb HD to a bigger one, do an Internet search
for a program called something like dd.exe. Somebody mention this
program, here-abouts, as a way to clone an installed HD to a HD that is
connected via USB. This will copy your 40GB HD to a 40GB portion on
your new, bigger, HD and then it should allow you to increase the
amount of the HD which Windows would be allowed to "see".

(I had a quick google, and it seems it's very command-line based.)

Does it clone such that the cloned drive is still authorised/registered
or whatever the term is - i. e. so that it will work without requiring
any communication with Microsoft? I thought the serial number, model
number, of the HD changing was moderately likely to trigger a
re-reg/auth being required.

Note I've never actually used this dd.exe program, just relating what

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someone else typed. When I want to fiddle with the size of the
divisions on this HD, I use the equivalent Linux function, also called
dd.

Daniel

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