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xmastree
01-01-2009, 02:08 PM
Just installed a new disk, and I'm having trouble ...

The story is, that I had one 40G IDE, split 20/20 between XP and Ubuntu, one 80GB IDE for data and one 80GB SATA for data. I didn't design it that way, it just grew up like that.

Now I've got a 500GB SATA to replace the two 80GB data disks, and I will use the 80GB IDE for the OS's. This time split 50/30 in favour of XP.

So I copied all the data from the two 80GB drives onto the 500, and using partimage from the System restore CD I've backed up the two 20GB OS partitions onto the 500.

Next I removed all disks, refitted the 80 and the 500, repartitioned the 80 into 50/30 and restored my backups from the 500 to it.

I then rebooted and it fired up into Windows, but all is not quite right. Firstly, I've lost the grub menu, but that's not the major issue at the moment.

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f341/chrispollard/partition.png

In the above, windisk is the first partition at 48.83, 22.77 is linux and the 2.93 is swap.

I can't access all of the 50GB partition from windows...

Any ideas?

nevermind1534
01-01-2009, 02:25 PM
If I understand correctly, it would appear as though the program that you used to format it gave you the decimal 500000 MB, instead of the 512000MB that windows would give you (2^x).

xmastree
01-01-2009, 02:28 PM
the 48GB isn't the issue, look at the other highlighted area, in the upper pane. I only have 18.64 available...

nevermind1534
01-01-2009, 02:31 PM
Oh, I see. Try running scandisk. That will usually fix it. Sometimes, when you resize the windows partition, it takes that (or running out of the space that it thinks it has) before it sees the whole thing.

xmastree
01-01-2009, 02:35 PM
Right, I'll try that now... need to reboot to do it.

Catch you on the flipside...

xmastree
01-01-2009, 02:54 PM
Hmm, that didn't work. :(

It did report some free space as allocated, but not 30 Gig's worth.

xmastree
01-01-2009, 03:54 PM
And the answer is to run ntfsresize from the System Rescue disk (http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page) I used to backup and restore the partitions.

:banana:

nevermind1534
01-01-2009, 03:56 PM
Cool; glad you got it working.