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How to create a snapshot of a physical disk?

I have Windows 7 installed on one of my disks. I want to boot this Windows system in my Xen HVM, but I do not want the changes to be permanent. So I want to create a snapshot of my Windows 7 ...
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Copying an HDD to a larger one by dd

I'm trying to copy an entire HDD which has IBM PC-style partition table to a larger one by dd on GNU/Linux. The questions are: Can I use the additional space on the larger disk by changing the ...
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Cloned VirtualBox CentOS disk is unbootable after cloning in GParted

I cloned and enlarged an existing virtual CentOS-6 disk by the following steps: Create 15GB virtual disk and mount the old and the new disks in GParted. In GParted copy boot, swap and ext3 ...