disk locked and will not allow copy

To run gparted you need to be "super user", that 's the reason why password is asked.
And for sure, i guess you can put 80go on 20

I never got gparted to work in coping the file to the 80 g drive. I used the terminal mode and typed sudo -s then typed dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb enter.
it took a while but it transfered all the files to the 80 gig. However it made a partion the same size as the 20 g drive but at least I got a backup.

I wanted to copy the entire disk to a new disk with higher capacity. On the 29 g hard drive is where I satered using linux. I liked it and then started setting up my computer with different programs. Then I decided that I really wanted a bigger HD instead of the 20 g one. When I saw the gparted could do a copy, I figured it would copy the entire disk to another disk which would make me one like I had setup.
But the DD command just made another 20 g partation on the 80 gig and left the other alone. I guess that now I can go back and expand the 20 gig out to what I want using gparted.

Well I have been in computers since 1980 on my first Tandy. Started in using Dos. Came up thru all the windows machines and tried Linux red hat about 5 years ago and never go it to work. Just before Christmas, I decided to update all my office computers as the ones I had were Dell workstations with windows 2000 Pro and 8 years old. One computer started giving me trouble in 1 week running XP as this is the going thing. To make a long story short, I found it to be software, after much discussion, running circles and getting upset. I went on to a Linux site and started looking at options. Found Ubuntu 6.06 to be the one everyone seems to be using with no trouble and decided to try Linux again. I found an old 20 g Hard Drive and downloaded it. After 2 hours I was getting impressed. I moved slow downloading things I needed to setup my office computers as I needed it. After 2 days and not trouble exchanging documents back and forth, getting players to work, networking to work and downloading more tools, I was very impressed. The only problem I was having was getting a Lexmark printer to work off the network. By this time I had too much on a 20 g drive to start all over on a new 80 g drive that I wanted to use and wipe out the windows on it. This is when I tried to copy everything over to the 80 g drive using gparted but it shoed the locks on the drives but not on the 2nd drive. Found later it was a permission issue that I needed and when I used the terminal mode, gave the super permission and did the transfer, it worked. It copied the all 20 g drive to the 80 g drive with no problems. it just took a while as I have 5gigs of data on it. What I didn't expect was it setup the same 20 gigs on the 80 g drive and left the rest unpartitioned. I really want the whole 80 gigs for linux and then later to mirror another 80 to this one for backup.
This was what I was trying to do with gparted.

Thanks Larry,
I will try that here in a few day's. Yes I am wanting the hard drive as one partition on the 80 Gig.
It is on the 20 gig as well. Hda1 is the 20 and hdb1 is the 80. I was not using the live CD so I just downloaded it and burned a CD.