Re: OT: Paging the Windoze XP/MBR/NTFS FOAK

On Jan 28, 2:12 pm, Simon Wilson <siwil...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Cab wrote:
On Jan 28, 1:12 pm, Vass <m...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 28, 11:33 am, Simon Wilson <siwil...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I upgraded my laptop (nc6000) recently from a chock-full 40Gb drive to a
nice shiny 250Gb one. I used Ghost to copy from the old drive to the new
one, then Partition Magic to grow the partition to the full size of the
disk.
Still got the old drive?
instead of Partition Magic, try Acronishttp://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/
it handles dynamic drives
might sort you out, might not

Before trying that out, I'd try Ghost first and not use PM to extend
the partition to see if the error comes from Ghost firstly.
If the error doesn't occur, then I'd guess it's something to do with
PM. Process of elimination for starters.

However, I think that there is something strange about all of this,
because the procedure that Simon has described should work without any
issues. IIRC, if the disk is already NTFS and a dynamic [1] disk, he
should be able to extend the size using the disk management tool in
Windows.

What were the disk formats on the drives to start of with? Both NTFS?
Or did you ghost from a FAT32 to NTFS partition (is it possible in
Ghost?)

[1] If it's a basic disk, then a simple right click and the "upgrade
to Dynamic disk" option should appear. Then after a couple of reboots,
the option to extend the disk size should also appear. I'm pretty sure
that this option is available in XP. IIRC, it's also possible using
FDISK.

I was ghosting from ntfs to ntfs. The really weird thing is all of that
worked. It's only after week of using it that the MBR got borked. Have
googled more and more it does seem to be down to some strange
HD/mobo/BIOS incompatibility with windoze boot manager. Others have
reported when they got this error that everything works fine with Linux.
They also report that it happened after the system was switched off for
some time (as it did with me). My options appear to be convert to fat32
somehow, maybe try smaller partitions, or I could go Ubuntu as the
primary OS and run XP under vmware (previously was doing it the other
way around).

You won't be able to convert back to FAT32 and you wouldn't want to
anyway. If there's a possibility of ghosting to FAT32, then try this.
After you've ghosted, upgrade the FS to NTFS. This may "wake up" the
system and clean any possible glitches. But I really don't know if
it's possible to do this and I think Ghost will force an NTFS system
on you, if it sees that your image is already NTFS.

You could also ask yourself this. Do you really need to expand the
primary parition?

What are the contents of your boot.ini file and have you searched
microsoft.com to see if you need any additional switches?

I'd still try the same again and not use PM for the moment, to see if
PM is causing problems.
.

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