Update: I finally tried creating the full disk partition and letting clonezilla re-size the file system after restoring the image. This worked.
However, I still would like to know why the procedure below would not work. I like using this procedure because I have, for example, about twenty Gateway E4100 machines in my building. They are older machines, and consequently have varying sizes of disks, ranging from 20GB to 250GB. So I like to keep the images at 20GB or 40GB images. Obviously you cannot restore a 250GB image to an 80GB drive, so this is the reason I like to use small partitions for saving images. So, in summary, the issue is restoring a "small" image to a big disk and then re-sizing the NTFS partition afterwards. Thanks. Bill Gurley wrote: > I'm going round and round in circles on this. It's something I have > done many times in the past, but am now having trouble. > > I keep standard Windows XP installation images of various computer > models used in my department. Here's is my problem: > > I have a 40GB image that I want to restore to a 250GB hard drive. > Ultimately, I want the single NTFS partition to take up the entire drive. > > I normally start this situation by creating an empty 40GB partition on > the target drive, and then use clonezilla live to restore to that. I'm > using all the default settings. > > After restoration, I boot to XP, then reboot again. > > Then I use a partitioning program, such as gparted (but I have tried > others), to grow the partition. > > After booting back into XP, it still sees drive C: as having the > original partition size! If I go into Computer Management > Disk > Management, it shows the NTFS partition with the new increased size. > But the total "capacity" identified by Windows is the original 40GB! > > Also: If I use the commercial Partition Magic program, and choose > "Check For Errors", I get two entries that say: > > "Information mismatch in directory entry" > > Suggestions? > > Thanks, > > > -Bill- > > --------------------------------------------- > Bill Gurley, Technical Director > Department of Chemistry > Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville > --------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Clonezilla-live mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live -- -Bill- --------------------------------------------- Bill Gurley, Technical Director Department of Chemistry Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville --------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Clonezilla-live mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live
