On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 18:39 +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
NTFSclone will be a lot faster than a direct image clone but a direct disk to disk clone is troublesome with ntfsclone, it doesn't clone the partition map or the MBR etc and it doesn't natively support resizing on the fly (you'd have to apply nftsresize to the image nftsclone makes before writing a new partition map to the new disk) then you would have to grab the MBR etc with dd and shove it on as well. By the time you have cloned from original to image and then from image to new and messed about with MBR's and partition maps you may as well do it the slow way with dd and then resize with gparted or something.
You can copy the MBR/partition map and the boot record of the first partition by copying the first two cyclinders with dd and then use ntfsclone for the rest of the partition.
Regards, Steve.