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Re: Cloned disk "thinks" it is much smaller than it is.
Posted by nemo_outis on August 13th, 2005


Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> wrote in
news:d98f91229414cad36618862b628314d2@dizum.com:



As a WAG the problem may arise from:

1. Your ghosting, if done in sector-by-sector mode, copied - and later
restored - the "original" partition table. If so, that table will have
"old" information about partition cylinder boundaries, etc. (or the
equivalent re LBA).

2. Some NTFS partitions/drives implicitly contain metadata about the
drive size in the MFT and related structures.

The first is reasonably easy to fix - edit the table directly if you
know what you're doing, or find a partition mamager/resizer that will
handle it (most should?).. I don't have a clue about the second problem
except to know it exists and that there are several Norton Ghost
switches to handle it (e.g., -ntexact, -ntiid, etc.).

Regards,