Norton Ghost is an industry standard for $$$, Clonezilla (clonezilla.org) is free/opensource and somewhat mimicking Ghost, and of course you can buy individual disk cloner devices, most of them supports to copy from smaller disk to bigger one -- but this latter one is only if you do that daily basis. (like one of these: http://www.itechnews.net/tag/hdd-duplicator/) Tamas On 7 December 2011 06:42, William "Chops" Westfield wrote: > > 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 > than SSD.) > IIRC, I had trouble getting open source tools (sysrescuecd) to do the > obvious 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, either. Lots on setting up a bootable DVD-RW wit= h > writable backup area, nothing on creating a simple data disk. grr.), and > ended up using the seagate-provided utility ( > http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/discwizard ) instead > (the destination drive was a seagate.) > > Windows-7 didn't complain at all, as far as I know. > > BillW > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 int main() { char *a,*s,*q; printf(s=3D"int main() { char *a,*s,*q; printf(s=3D%s%s%s, q=3D%s%s%s%s,s,q,q,a=3D%s%s%s%s,q,q,q,a,a,q); }", q=3D"\"",s,q,q,a=3D"\\",q,q,q,a,a,q); } --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .