I have a 320 billion byte disk partitioned as:
X: 78 GB Y: 199 GB Z: 10 GB
I want to clone this onto a 750 billion byte disk, increasing two of the partitions.
X: 78 GB Y: 500 GB Z: 20 GB
What's the best approach to doing this?
Should I use specific cloning software, or should I just manually partition and manually copy?
(I do have software relying on the drive letters staying the same, but I guess I can always re-assign in Windows afterwards.)
I'm thinking cloning will occur at a lower level than a regular copying, so will be faster. However, I don't know if it'll let me resize the partitions at the same time?
There's a note on the drive itself about some "Advanced Format" and WD Align software thing, which might give me more space or something... http://wdc.com/global/products/features/?id=7 ...it seems to suggests that I only need to use that if I'm going to be using a cloning utility.
Somewhere on that page/site there is a link to "Acronis True Image WD Edition" which can do cloning whilst also supporting the Advanced Format thing. At 147MB it sounds pretty bloated, but the PDF manual does mention doing a data transfer and being able to re-allocate disk space between partitions manually, which is exactly what I want (there's also a proportional option, plus a no resize one).
So I guess I'll do it that way (not now; about 23ish), unless someone here can recommend a better way?
EDITED: 31 Jan 2012 19:43 by BOUGHTONP