I changed the partition size on an XP boot disk. (I went from a smaller to a larger dis and did a dd copy in linux)
I then increased the partition size and did a chkdsk /r
When I do a properties on C: it says that the disk is the old size. When I go to to the system administration tools/volume management, the partition is reported as the new larger size.
When did NTFS and the partition manger get disconnected, and is there any thing I can do to correct.
John
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NTFS, From looking at the articles I may have a screwed up MFT. I am defragmenting now.
Also, since the size of the original disk was to small, they had compression on. I do not know if any of my previous transfers had that.
The partitions manager says the partition is 146 get. The properties and chkdsk say I have 36 gig.
that looks like that old boundary issue
similar to this
http://www.x-ways.net/winh
http://mlf.linux.rulez.org
I believe you are suggesting I re-size the partition again to set the boundaries. Anyother place for good documentation?
when u clone, the cloned copy becomes same size as original, then u have to change a few things to recognize extra space, but i forget the exact process, must do a bit of research all over again since last time i turned a 200gb drive into a 10gb drive, lol
u can try a partion tool to just resize tho, since u wont lose ur original 36gb drive
the free version of this should do the trick
http://www.partition-tool.
I cloned the drive using dd (ddrescue in trinity) There were 3 patitions on the original drive.
For argument sake (I am too lazy to check precisely) my partitions were 1.4mBytes, 34 g bytes and 2.5 gbytes.
The 2nd part ions was the primary NTFS boot partition.
Tested and booted in WIN XP
I created a new partition at the end of the disk to match the size of the 3rd partition. I copied the info from the original 3rd partition to the new partition at the end of the drive.
I deleted the original 3rd partition.
Applied the change
Re-sized the NTFS partition from 34 gbytes to 114 gBytes, Booted windows and it boots
Partition table in Windows and in Linux says the NTFS partition is 144gBytes. File manager and volume mangers says the NTFS file size is 34Gbytes.
I am going to try to resiz the NTFS partition if I can figure out cylinder boundries. If that doesn't work, I am going to redo the whole thing.
John
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by: LeeTutorPosted on 2009-08-11 at 15:15:58ID: 25074051
What are the differing sizes? Are your disks formatted with FAT32 or NTFS? Perhaps these two MS articles will be of help:
http://support.microsoft.c
Windows XP Does Not Recognize All Available Disk Space
http://support.microsoft.c
How to Locate and Correct Disk Space Problems on NTFS Volumes in Windows XP