Slightly OT: Silly mistake, HELP..!
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From: Robert Billing on 3 Feb 2010 03:55 As the bottle floated ashore we opened it and found the message that Ivor Jones had written: > Hi all, hope someone can offer advice. This *is* Linux related in that I > want to install Linux onto the system, but please bear with me. > > I have a Dell 9400 laptop which currently has Windows XP on a 60GB drive > which is becoming rather full, so I decided to get a new drive and make > the system dual boot with XP and Linux (Fedora) as I already have on my > desktop. > > I made a Norton Ghost image of the XP drive, installed the new (500GB) > drive in the machine and began the restore process. All went well (or so > I thought) until I started XP on the new drive prior to installing > Fedora. > > The problem is that the new 500GB drive is only seen by the system as > 60GB, the same size as the original. I know now what I did wrong, I > should have resized the partition when I started the restore, but I > failed to do so and now I am stuck with a 500GB drive I can't use more > than 60GB of..! > > Is there any way to get the rest of this drive back..? I tried GParted > but that still only sees the drive as a 60GB partition, as does the BIOS > setup utility on the laptop. > > Any ideas anyone..? Personally I'd just put the partition table right manually with fdisk, even though there are newer tools that may be easier to use. -- I am Robert Billing, Christian, author, inventor, traveller, cook and animal lover. "It burned me from within. It quickened; I was with book as a woman is with child." Quality e-books for portable readers: http://www.alex-library.com
From: Geoffrey Clements on 3 Feb 2010 04:00 "Ivor Jones" <ivor(a)thisaddressis.invalid> wrote in message news:7ss2v0Fs16U1(a)mid.individual.net... > > Hi all, hope someone can offer advice. This *is* Linux related in that I > want to install Linux onto the system, but please bear with me. > > I have a Dell 9400 laptop which currently has Windows XP on a 60GB drive > which is becoming rather full, so I decided to get a new drive and make > the system dual boot with XP and Linux (Fedora) as I already have on my > desktop. > > I made a Norton Ghost image of the XP drive, installed the new (500GB) > drive in the machine and began the restore process. All went well (or so I > thought) until I started XP on the new drive prior to installing Fedora. > > The problem is that the new 500GB drive is only seen by the system as > 60GB, the same size as the original. I know now what I did wrong, I should > have resized the partition when I started the restore, but I failed to do > so and now I am stuck with a 500GB drive I can't use more than 60GB of..! > > Is there any way to get the rest of this drive back..? I tried GParted but > that still only sees the drive as a 60GB partition, as does the BIOS setup > utility on the laptop. > > Any ideas anyone..? > > Ivor > I would fire up a live cd such as http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page and use the tools on that. I would probably start with fdisk or sfdisk to look at and change the partition table. -- Geoff
From: chris on 3 Feb 2010 04:10 On 03/02/10 01:48, Ivor Jones wrote: > > Hi all, hope someone can offer advice. This *is* Linux related in that I > want to install Linux onto the system, but please bear with me. > > I have a Dell 9400 laptop which currently has Windows XP on a 60GB drive > which is becoming rather full, so I decided to get a new drive and make > the system dual boot with XP and Linux (Fedora) as I already have on my > desktop. > > I made a Norton Ghost image of the XP drive, installed the new (500GB) > drive in the machine and began the restore process. All went well (or so > I thought) until I started XP on the new drive prior to installing Fedora. > > The problem is that the new 500GB drive is only seen by the system as > 60GB, the same size as the original. I know now what I did wrong, I > should have resized the partition when I started the restore, but I > failed to do so and now I am stuck with a 500GB drive I can't use more > than 60GB of..! > > Is there any way to get the rest of this drive back..? I tried GParted > but that still only sees the drive as a 60GB partition, as does the BIOS > setup utility on the laptop. Why not wipe it and restart? Create a 60Gb partition on the new disk (with a LiveCD) this time around and then restore to it.
From: PeeGee on 3 Feb 2010 04:24 On 03/02/10 09:10, chris wrote: > On 03/02/10 01:48, Ivor Jones wrote: >> >> Hi all, hope someone can offer advice. This *is* Linux related in that I >> want to install Linux onto the system, but please bear with me. >> >> I have a Dell 9400 laptop which currently has Windows XP on a 60GB drive >> which is becoming rather full, so I decided to get a new drive and make >> the system dual boot with XP and Linux (Fedora) as I already have on my >> desktop. >> >> I made a Norton Ghost image of the XP drive, installed the new (500GB) >> drive in the machine and began the restore process. All went well (or so >> I thought) until I started XP on the new drive prior to installing >> Fedora. >> >> The problem is that the new 500GB drive is only seen by the system as >> 60GB, the same size as the original. I know now what I did wrong, I >> should have resized the partition when I started the restore, but I >> failed to do so and now I am stuck with a 500GB drive I can't use more >> than 60GB of..! >> >> Is there any way to get the rest of this drive back..? I tried GParted >> but that still only sees the drive as a 60GB partition, as does the BIOS >> setup utility on the laptop. > > Why not wipe it and restart? Create a 60Gb partition on the new disk > (with a LiveCD) this time around and then restore to it. Agreed, but the BIOS identifying it as 60GB is a bit worrying (it it roughly 500GB - 3*137GB - adjusting for 1024/1000 units). -- PeeGee "Nothing should be able to load itself onto a computer without the knowledge or consent of the computer user. Software should also be able to be removed from a computer easily." Peter Cullen, Microsoft Chief Privacy Strategist (Computing 18 Aug 05)
From: spike1 on 3 Feb 2010 18:15
And verily, didst Ivor Jones <ivor(a)thisaddressis.invalid> hastily babble thusly: > On 03/02/10 09:10, chris wrote: >> On 03/02/10 01:48, Ivor Jones wrote: > > [snip] > >>> Is there any way to get the rest of this drive back..? I tried GParted >>> but that still only sees the drive as a 60GB partition, as does the BIOS >>> setup utility on the laptop. >> >> Why not wipe it and restart? Create a 60Gb partition on the new disk >> (with a LiveCD) this time around and then restore to it. > > Erm.. it's a 500GB disk..! I just can't see anything over 60GB. Every > tool I have tried (testdisk, sfdisk, fdisk, gparted) all say it's a 60GB > (58GB to be exact) and won't address any more space. Wipe the partition table with dd from a live linux cd. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=10 should do the trick. -- | spike1(a)freenet.co.uk | | | Andrew Halliwell BSc | "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't | | in | suck is probably the day they start making | | Computer science | vacuum cleaners" - Ernst Jan Plugge | |