Yes, first I would want to make sure you can access the whole drive in it's bare state. Both from another machine, and from that one. That will at least tell you the drive is okay. So format.
Then it just becomes a question of restoring the image. If you can't restore it to the 500gb partition, try partitioning to 100g/400g and restoring it to the new 100g. PS Even as we speak, I'm trying to upgrade my system drive (Vista32) and I haven't jumped through so many hoops since Win98. In fact, what's really depressing is that half the web searches I do on various errors eventually lead to old fdisk instructions! :) On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Jack<[email protected]> wrote: > I have what appears to be a disk geometry error. > > I am migrating from a 100GB Fujitsu notebook drive to a 500GB Western > Digital. I made an export/backup image using Acronis, switched the drives, > and reloaded the old image to the new 500GB drive. That part works fine - > the partitions and everything look good. > > However, I cannot extend the filesystem on the new drive beyond 100G because > the system says there is nothing there. > > I have used a number of tools to see what's going on (Partition Magic, > parted, Linux fdisk, cfdisk, Raneesh Part Mgr) and they all report 100GB. > testdisk reports that there are hidden sectors (lots of them...) but > provides no apparent method of recovering them. An attempt to install Red > Hat or Win XP doesn't see the additional missing sectors either. > > I wonder if the Acronis restore overwrote the disk geometry info, and if so, > how can this be corrected? Is this in track 0? Or the MBR? Of if indeed > disk geometry is even the problem? > > Since the disk is new and the data is safe, I can do pretty much anything > with it in the way of recovery, such as formats and zero-fills. Any help, > gentle pointers, or painful hind-side kicks will be appreciated. > > ..jeff > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
