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penguinized
2013-04-23
2013-04-24

  • penguinized

    penguinized - 2013-04-23

    I tried to clone a Windows XP from a 50GB harddrive to a 500GB one, using CloneZilla live 2.1.1-7.
    Using the -k1 flag resulted in a Windows crashing on boot, flashing a blue screen of Death to me for parts of a second and immidiately rebooting.
    Then, I tried it without this flag. This worked, but now only 50 GB are shown as size of the new drive. Re-formating or creating a new partition table using gParted does not help. Do you have any advice for me?

     

  • penguinized

    penguinized - 2013-04-23

    Hm. after some search, it seems that this is due to the shitty proprietary Dell Laptop MBR... so should be ok. Will tell when it worked.

     

  • Fuchs

    Fuchs - 2013-04-24

    Use 'gparted'
    but do not use creating a new partition table.

    After you have cloned the 50 GB with windows XP to 500 GB HDD normally,
    with 'gparted' you can see:
    /dev/sda1 ntfs windowsXP 50GB
    /dev/sda2 ntfs - with about 450GB

    Mark the 'last partition' (in this case /dev/sda2)
    Delete this partition
    Go to the 50GB partition (/dev/sda1)
    Resize this partition to about 450GB

    Do not delete the boot mark in /dev/sda1.

    That's all.

     

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