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Migrating to a bigger Hard Drive

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I had to finally migrate to a bigger Hard Drive yesterday due to my Lord of the Rings Online Install growing to over 11GB. I was currently on a 40GB PATA HD and was approaching my limit after the install of LOTR Online. I had an 80GB PATA HD on hand that I was using to image my Windows XP 40GB HD. I imaged my 40GB HD with Acronis True Image 8.0(older version) onto a networked folder on my other system(Mercury), which took about 2 hours(cheap router). I then Used Acronis True Image 8.0 to restore the image onto the 80GB Hard Drive. It installed in about 2 hours or so and was I left with a 40GB active, bootable partition and a 40GB unallocated partition. I then created a new NTFS partition on the unallocated portion and expanded the active partition to merge with the new, blank one. In the end I was left with a bigger 80GB NTFS, active and bootable Windows XP partition. I realize there are probably much easier ways of doing this with various applications....but this is what I had

Virtual Box by Sun Microsystems

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I've recently been using Sun Vm Virtual Box to run various smaller Linux distrobutions on top of my Windows XP Pro install. I realize that there are other similar programs out there with many more features available, but I've been impressed with Virtual Boxes' simplicity and functionality. So far, no problems and it does what it was developed to do! Oh yeah it's also free! http://www.virtualbox.org/