Upgrading hard drive with bootcamp partition

On my MacBook i've got a Lion partition and a Bootcamp partition with the Windows 8 Consumer preview. Would it be possible to copy the partitions from my current drive to a bigger drive and extend each the partitions to make use of the extra space? I would rather not have to reinstall both Lion and Windows as I've got all the apps and settings i like on Lion and getting an OpenGL graphics driver to work (so i could play Minecraft) and installing VB6 was a huge hassle.

You can clone both the Mac and the Boot Camp Partitions separately to external drives then back clone to the new drive after installation. Be sure to clone the Mac Partition with Carbon Copy Cloner which can copy the lion recovery partition also. After having the clone of the Mac installed then set up anew Boot Camp partition but don't install any Windows OS. Clone the original Boot Camp partition with Winclone or Paragon HDM 12 themn back clone this to the newly creaed BootCamp partition.
You might want to scan the Boot Camp section of these forums for comments on this process.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/windows_software/boot_camp

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