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Dbl_Tap
2009-04-22
2013-04-05
  • Dbl_Tap

    Dbl_Tap - 2009-04-22

    I've done some searching I didn't find what I was looking for so forgive me if this has been asked.

    I have a 120BG drive I cloned to a 500 GB drive using Clonezilla clonezilla-live-1.2.1-53.iso burned to a DVD.

    I ran all the standard settings. It was a disk to disk clone.

    When I started Windows Vista on the new 500GB HD it booted and everything looked good but there was a 4.88 GB drive D with nothing in it, the C drive with about 40GB for Vista, then the rest unused.

    What did I do wrong? I was thrilled it booted and everything seems to work fine but I wanted one partition.

    Thanks for putting up with a noob

     
    • Steven Shiau

      Steven Shiau - 2009-04-22

      Could you please:
      1. Boot Clonezilla live and enter command prompt
      2. sudo -i
      3. cat /proc/partitions
      4. parted -s /dev/sda print (replace /dev/sda with your device)
      5. blkid
      Then post the results of 3-5.
      This will provide more info so it's easier to see what's going on there.

      Steven.

       
      • Dbl_Tap

        Dbl_Tap - 2009-04-22

        Looks like I was the cause. I just remembered that this HD I'm cloning is the OEM installed laptop HAD and there is a recovery partition. Normally I completely wipe HD's and re-install everything so I have one partition and a clean install. This one had three partitions all the exact size that showed up on the 500 GB drive.

        So is there a way to clone just the C: partition which is only 64 GB to one big partition on the 500 GB?

         
        • Steven Shiau

          Steven Shiau - 2009-04-24

          Yes. You can use partition to partition clone function in Clonezilla live.

          Steven.

           

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