It is very possible it was the way that you did the restore, but it
is also possible that your laptop recognizes nothing larger than 100GB.
Stewart
At 04:50 PM 8/11/2009, you 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
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
mailto:[email protected]
Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org
Ozark, AL SL 82
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