Moving my Windows partition to a new hard drive

If it is using NTFS it is quite painless using WinClone.

New version of Winclone is out and it can now backup NTFS and FAT32 now.
The idea would be to install Winclone in Leopard by getting it [HERE|http://www.twocanoes.com/winclone>.
1 Run Leopard
2. Run Winclone
3. Backup the Windows Partition on an external drive
4. Install new HD
5. Install Leopard on new HD including WInclone
6. Run boot camp and create the windows partition however stop right after the partition is created
7. Run Winclone and restore the backed up Windows on the new partition (The catch is that the new Windows partition has to be equal or larger than the initial).

Axel F.

Glad to hear about WinClone 2.0.

Assuming you backed up OS X also with SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner (or even Apple Disk Utility:Restore; or, TimeMachine)...

no need - nor would I want to install Leopard (leaves files scattered all over disk drive and lots of work).

But... figure that is what you meant for #5. AND, of course, format / partition in Disk Utility. And I prefer to run off a disk drive rather than DVD which has an older version of Leoaprd anyway.

KWarp wrote:
I forgot to mention that I'm running Tiger, and plan to install Leopard when I swap the hard drives. Does that add any complications?

No
I was using Tiger and BC beta on both my MBPs. When I updated to Leopard, both Windows systems (XP on one, Vista Ult 64-bit on this one) continued to work fine. Actually, I have never used BC2.0 Assistant.app. My partitions are as they were originally created with BC beta. Only the drivers have been updated.
If you restore everything keeping Tiger and then update to Leopard, I suspect that you will likewise have no problems.
I used the default (merge) upgrade on both my MBPs.