Anyone tried a disk cloner?!

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop for Mac' started by MarkHolbrook, Sep 25, 2006.

  1. MarkHolbrook

    MarkHolbrook Pro

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    I'm curious if anyone has tried the following approach to resizing a disk...

    Start a new VM, create a fresh disk of the size desired.
    Attach your old disk as a second drive
    Boot a disk copy type of software and copy from the old image to the new?

    It seems like it would work. Not that I need to do this but I might in the future. I know there is a way to use partition magic and to do it with diskpart.

    But I'm just curious if the above idea might work and what piece of software might do the copy?
     
  2. iMbEst

    iMbEst Member

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    I think you can try norton ghost and use the cloning over network. I successfully clone a old P800Mhz Win98SE machine to a VM via network. I think you can do the same. I am not sure if Mac can run mulitple instances of Parallels but I can do it in WinXP.
     

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