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This sounds like a job for GNU Parted <a  rel="nofollow" href="http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/";>http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/</a>  or one of it's GUI frontends.  It can resize FAT32 on the fly.

I agree that backing up critical files first would be a great idea --- copying the whole drive can send borderline drives over the edge.

Tom
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On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:10:10 -0400
Robert Heaven &lt;robertheaven at earthlink.net&gt; wrote:

&gt; This discussion brings up something I think I need. My son called me
&gt; today and said his Win2k box was having problems where it would suddenly
&gt; make a clanking noise and then freeze. (sounds like the hard drive is
&gt; about to die)
&gt; 
&gt; Can I install a new hard drive (set the old one to master and the new
&gt; one to slave), boot from a Knoppix CD and &quot;dd&quot; the old to new drive?
&gt; Does it copy the partition table? What happens to the extra space if the
&gt; new drive is bigger than the old one? 
&gt; 
&gt; This box was originally a dual boot with Win2k and RH-8 (Grub boot
&gt; loader) but, not being a geek, he never boots to Linux. Will &quot;dd&quot;
&gt; preserve the dual boot?
&gt; 
&gt; 
&gt; On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 15:50, Christopher Fowler wrote:
&gt; 
&gt; &gt; dd if=/dev/&lt;disk&gt; of=/mnt/usb/disk.img
&gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; Want compression?
&gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; dd if=/dev/&lt;disk&gt; | bzip2 -c9 | dd of=/mnt/usb/disk.img
&gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 15:57, Tom &amp; JaVonn wrote:
&gt; &gt; &gt; 	
&gt; &gt; &gt; Anyone used g4l ?
&gt; &gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; &gt; Looking for a cheap or free way for clients to make images of their hard drive to external USB drives, even if they're NTFS format.
&gt; &gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; &gt; Thanks,
&gt; &gt; &gt; Tom
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