Restored Partimage image on a larger partition, problems.

Romanus81 · 01-01-2009, 10:43 PM

I just got a new laptop hard drive for Christmas, my father brought home a usb hard drive case to transfer it from work, but it was for IDE drives, and not SATA. So I made images of my Windows and Linux partition, put them on an old IDE drive, switched the SATA drives in my laptop, partitioned the drive, moved the images to the new drive, reinstalled lilo, and I can boot into Linux, but I found two problems.
1) My Windows partition is 45GB, my linux partition is 30GB. That is what I get in parted and fdisk, but if I mount these partitions, df says I have 24 and 11 GB, respectively, which is what I had on my old hard drive.
Is there any way to fix this?

2) Windows won't boot. Not a big problem, but I am assuming that I didn't get the boot record when I copied the image. Is there any way I can have windows re-write it's bootloader to it's partition?

jailbait · 01-01-2009, 11:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Romanus81

1) My Windows partition is 45GB, my linux partition is 30GB. That is what I get in parted and fdisk, but if I mount these partitions, df says I have 24 and 11 GB, respectively, which is what I had on my old hard drive. Is there any way to fix this?

Yes, do the copies over again except this time format the new file systems and copy the files from the old partition to the new partition instead of copying filesystem images.

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Steve Stites