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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

Sorry, John, I did a bit of a search on my Usenet groups but could not
find a reference to "dd.exe", so couldn't find who it was that
recommended the program.

Doing a Google search gave me a program related to FujiFilm, but,
interestingly, the first comment on that page was about the program I
had heard about.

http://www.file.net/process/dd.exe.html

User Comments
There is a "dd.exe" which is part of package Unxutils". It is tool used
to copy, convert and format files based on various options.
Pierre Lafreniere (further information)

One of the other google finds was
http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question...4103623AA6lUFC

"How do I use the "dd.exe" command correctly for copying an image? (I
am using FAU for Windows).?

I just installed Forensics Acquisition Utilities for windows"

Might help those in need!!

Thanks.

Daniel



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