OK so the bios isn't screwing things up.Earlier on I thought I would replace my dying 10GB disk on my linux test machine here and replace it with a 40GB one. They are the same make (fujitsu) and both IDE. Nothing else has changed.
I used Ghost to copy the info from the small disk to the large one. It all went ok, and the only thing that changed was the size of each partition.
Any ideas what I have done to it ?
Olly
There are quite a range of things that could affect this. The first question if this were my machine is to ask myself does the bios support the new size of drive ? How confident are you ?
John
Oh yeah. The disk came from the machine originally but was moth balled
while we used an old disk in the test server.
I take it Ghost means Norton ghost , not my most favourite drive image programme,
because when it screws up it does it bigtime.
I take it you have the drive jumpers set correctly ?
Did you run ghost from windblows or as a dos floppy job ?
You have an active partition ?
The partition tool you used did a good job, the image recovery programme
didn't complain about any unrecognisable partition(s), and the transfer was made
on the fly(I think ghost can do that , not sure) or did you create an image file first
and then proceed to install it in the new partition. Usually, but as I say, I'm not
a fan of ghost, it asks you to resize the partition, when the new partition is different from
the original, did that happen ? If not then it has to in order to have additional file system(assuming it is a larger partition) or it cuts the partition down to size when
you are reducing the partition size. However that does not usually prevent access to it.
If you used ghost then it automaticall remakes the mbr for you, but you sometimes need to run windblows in recovery to get it to "fixmbr" if you don't have a windblows partition and it is an all linux HD then you probably need to reinstall lilo using CD1 disc. Don't automatically assume it will give you a lilo.
So far you ave supplied very few clues as to what is actually happening. I mean you switch on and attempt to boot but what happens, do you get a bios screen(or whatever you call it) the black and while screen with basic system info. does then go to look for an OS to boot, is there a splash screen, if so when you select an OS what happens next ?
John
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