New hard disk

Kjel Anderson kjel.anderson at gmail.com
Wed Nov 29 11:07:51 EST 2006


The free space was not adjacent to the partition that I wanted to expand. I
decided to just create a second partition for the moment. When this windows
XP install gets completely screwed up in a year I'll deal with it then.

Thanks everyone for the input,

Kjel

On 11/29/06, Python <python at venix.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 09:50 -0500, Ted Roche wrote:
> > On Nov 28, 2006, at 9:00 PM, Kjel Anderson wrote:
> >
> > > So, everything has worked relatively well up to the time that it
> > > was time to
> > > resize the ntfs partition. I'm not having much luck there. My copy of
> > > partition magic is a little too old, gparted segfaults, linux
> > > rescue cd is
> > > unable to start the display. I am running out of options. I suppose
> > > I can
> > > delete the Windows partition and then create a new one when I
> > > reinstall, but
> > > that will take a really long time. ntfsresize will not resize the
> > > partition,
> > > so that doesn't really help. Any other ideas?
> >
> > Grab the latest Knoppix CD (5.0.1, iirc) and see if that will boot on
> > the machine. I've used it to rescue a half-dozen machines around
> > here. O'Reilly's Knoppix Hacks are online (or could be borrowed from
> > the DLSLUG library - http://www.dlslug.org/library.html) and have
> > many recipes for common problems.
> >
> > Ted Roche
> > Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
> > http://www.tedroche.com
> >
> If Knoppix does not work, have you succeed in putting the free space
> adjacent to the Windows partition?  If so I think you can use linux to:
>
>         copy windows partition filesystem to new drive.  e.g.
>         dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/home/kjel/nt-filesystem
>
>         use fdisk to:
>         write down current partition information
>         delete windows partition
>         create new full-size windows partition
>
>         copy windows filesystem back to new partition.  e.g.
>         dd if=/home/kjel/nt-filesystem of=/dev/dha1
>
>         now boot windows
>         If Windows still boots ;) it will run chkdsk (or whatever it is
>         called nowadays) and expand the file system to fill the
>         partition.
>
> It has been a long time since I used this approach to expand a Windows
> partition.  It is possible it no longer works.
>
> Also the /dev/hda1 name I used above must match your system.  df should
> provide the device names for the partitions.  If this fails miserably,
> restoring the original partition sizes and using dd to put the original
> ntfs data back in place should get you back to where you started.
>
> (If I'm offering terrible advice - please someone speak up now!)
>
> >
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