I am currently the only one in our IT department as my supervisor has left for another job and I was only hired about a week before he left. Just so you understand that I would have asked him, if he were here.
I have never cloned a hard drive before but after extensive research, I have found that Clonezilla is what I am looking for. Currently, our president's hard drive is 1TB with only 75GB being dedicated to the primary partition which houses windows/applications. The second partition which encompasses the rest of the hard drive is dedicated to drop box. We are currently subscribed for the enterprise grade storage and his drive serves as a onsite backup. This was done per his request and is only used in the event of a connection issue.
The problem is that his primary partition is now maxed out. I have an idea of how to solve this problem and I am looking for input from this community. I would like to purchase a 1.5TB drive. I will then use Clonezilla to clone the smaller drive, to the larger drive. I will then use a partition manager, such as Minitool and easeus, to resize the primary partition. I will then replace the smaller drive with the larger one and hope all went well. Am I correct in my thought process/procedure.
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Yes, your thought is right.
Besides, in Clonezilla live expert mode, you can choose the option "-k1" to let Clonezilla create the partition table proportionally on the destination disk. You can also try that.
For partition resizing tool, "GParted live" (http://gparted.org) is another opensource, free software you can use.
//NOTE// Backup important data before you use Clonezilla. Just in case.
Steven.
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I am currently the only one in our IT department as my supervisor has left for another job and I was only hired about a week before he left. Just so you understand that I would have asked him, if he were here.
I have never cloned a hard drive before but after extensive research, I have found that Clonezilla is what I am looking for. Currently, our president's hard drive is 1TB with only 75GB being dedicated to the primary partition which houses windows/applications. The second partition which encompasses the rest of the hard drive is dedicated to drop box. We are currently subscribed for the enterprise grade storage and his drive serves as a onsite backup. This was done per his request and is only used in the event of a connection issue.
The problem is that his primary partition is now maxed out. I have an idea of how to solve this problem and I am looking for input from this community. I would like to purchase a 1.5TB drive. I will then use Clonezilla to clone the smaller drive, to the larger drive. I will then use a partition manager, such as Minitool and easeus, to resize the primary partition. I will then replace the smaller drive with the larger one and hope all went well. Am I correct in my thought process/procedure.
Yes, your thought is right.
Besides, in Clonezilla live expert mode, you can choose the option "-k1" to let Clonezilla create the partition table proportionally on the destination disk. You can also try that.
For partition resizing tool, "GParted live" (http://gparted.org) is another opensource, free software you can use.
//NOTE// Backup important data before you use Clonezilla. Just in case.
Steven.