dual - triple boot move to larger new HDD? How?

[whiskeynipple0088]

looking for some advice on migrating to a larger HDD

(z68 gigabyte, i5 Sandy, win7, 10.8, 10.6, Geforce 9800GT)

I have win7, Snow Leopard and Mountain lion on a single 500gb HDD (3 partitions) - works great but HDD is too small now.

I would like advice on how to migrate to a larger 1TB HDD - and thus larger partitions for each os.

I searched but maybe not using the correct term? (hence why the thread name is 'dual - triple boot...' so others could find it for thier dual boots)


thanks

 

[nobodynose]

looking for some advice on migrating to a larger HDD

(z68 gigabyte, i5 Sandy, win7, 10.8, 10.6, Geforce 9800GT)

I have win7, Snow Leopard and Mountain lion on a single 500gb HDD (3 partitions) - works great but HDD is too small now.

I would like advice on how to migrate to a larger 1TB HDD - and thus larger partitions for each os.

I searched but maybe not using the correct term? (hence why the thread name is 'dual - triple boot...' so others could find it for thier dual boots)


thanks

You should be able to use Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper for the Mac OS X partitions. They won't work for the Windows partition though.

An option I've used a couple of times before (most recently to move my Windows installation at work from a hard drive to an SSD) is Clonezilla (http://clonezilla.org/). It isn't the most user-friendly software available, but it's FREE and gets the job done. It recognizes just about every partition and filesystem type out there.

What you do is download and burn a "live CD" (bootable Linux CD, they also provide instructions for making a bootable USB stick), boot from it and do all your partition cloning that way. It supports exactly what you need to do, which is cloning a smaller partition on one drive onto a larger partition on another drive.

 

[whiskeynipple0088]

thanks - pretty sure I have clonzilla from prevous adventures - so you think it will OSX too... have to give that a try
its not OSX i fear reinstall - its windows

 

[nobodynose]

Make sure you get the latest version of CloneZilla so you have the recent bug fixes, etc.