[Clonezilla-live] trouble growing partition after restoration

[Bill G. <gu...@io...>]

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-

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    Bill Gurley, Technical Director
    Department of Chemistry
    Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville
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