Hard drive + partition upgrade questions

[Darth_tater]

I was picturing you running it just after copying was completed, but before disconnecting the old drive).

that's when i was going to do it...

but i could always use the live cd, too.

[logos34]

that's when i was going to do it...

but i could always use the live cd, too.

well, you'll definitely have to operate from the live cd because root cannot be mounted during gparted or dd copy. Then shutdown, remove old drive, turn on again and reboot to live cd, write grub to mbr, and finally reboot to hard drive.

Good luck

[Darth_tater]

yeah, thats exactly what i was going to do, but i was not aware that the MBR would not be coppied over. Thanks

[Darth_tater]

Yeah, its up and booting from the larger disk, and my /home directory is now ~ 325 gigs

so, everything worked.

just one small thing though, Gparted *did* copy over the MBR... grub booted and threw Error 21.. which meant that it couldn't find the disk it was used to.

this was easily solved by rebooting w/ the live CD and installing grub as shown in my previous posts.

thanks, everybody.

[logos34]

just one small thing though, Gparted *did* copy over the MBR... grub booted and threw Error 21.. which meant that it couldn't find the disk it was used to.

hmm, odd. If you are sure you actually booted to the new disk (and if you disconnected the old drive then you obviosuly did), the mbr should have been empty until you wrote grub to it separately. You should have gotten 'boot disk failure' or the like.

I quoth from the Gparted docs:

From the second hard drive, XP cant boot, because there is no MBR for the moment !

The example was ntfs, maybe there's a difference when copying ext3, dunno.

Anyhoo, glad it works. Enjoy.

[Darth_tater]

something did just occour to me.

While the Disk manager in windows Vista and Gparted both saw the *entire* drive as 'un allocated' the new drive might, at one point, have contained a grub installation.

i have used this drive before, but i don't really remember for what. its possible that there was Linux, or at lease a multiboot setup that required grub.

oh well, all works perfectly so i ant complain.

-- thanks again!

[logos34]

the new drive might, at one point, have contained a grub installation.

i have used this drive before, but i don't really remember for what. its possible that there was Linux, or at lease a multiboot setup that required grub.

now it's starting to make sense.

enjoy your new roomy 400 gig. (my second drive is less than half that!)