On Sun, 3 Sep 2006 13:54:45 -0700 (PDT), J R FOX wrote: >For the >most part, these migrations have been successful, >until rather recently when what I was trying to >migrate has been complicated and perhaps overly >ambitious. (18 partitions and 3 OSes, to a HDD twice >the size, though not too surprisingly the only >intransigent parties are the Win boot partitions. >They clearly do NOT like being enlarged AND slid far >down the drive, even though the relative order does >not change.) Over the weekend I successfully used DFSee 8.06 (www.dfsee.com) on a ThinkPad T42 to copy an 11-partition, three-OS multiboot system to a hard disk twice the size (80 GB to 160 GB). The OSes were WinXP, OS/2 MCP2, BootOS/2, and SuSE 9.2J. The file systems were NTFS, HPFS, ReiserFS, FAT16, and Linux swapfile. Everything boots and works just as it did before. However, I didn't try relocating or resizing the WinXP partition in any way, as I'd heard (as you mention) that that can sometimes be problematical. Just FWIW. -- Stephen Carter scarter@xxxxxxxx Nagoya, Japan