On Dec 3, 2011, at 11:36 PM, V G wrote: > I have a legit windows 7 licence installed to a 30 GB SSD drive. The > 30 GB SSD is running out of space, and I'd like to migrate (by copying > the partition) the Windows 7 partition over to a larger hard drive and > expand the partition. I did this recently for my son's laptop (although for a hard drive rather t= han SSD.) IIRC, I had trouble getting open source tools (sysrescuecd) to do the obvio= us desirable things (maybe I just failed to find them in the documentation.= OSSW seems to have a hard time documenting common procedures, preferring = to hide them behind obscure and detailed features. More recently I couldn'= t figure out how to get sysrescuecd to copy files from a disk to a DVD-R, e= ither. Lots on setting up a bootable DVD-RW with writable backup area, not= hing on creating a simple data disk. grr.), and ended up using the seagate= -provided utility (http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/discw= izard ) instead (the destination drive was a seagate.) Windows-7 didn't complain at all, as far as I know. BillW --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .