Disk imaging after changing the partition sizes?

I have a 250 GB internal hard drive (drive G:), currently partitioned with a 200 GB partition (the rest is unpartitioned), that I use to keep several generational image backups of my system (the C: partition on the main internal boot drive). Let's ...

Message posted on the June 15th, 2012 - 10:32 PM ET

Problems after changing partitions

Hi. Mandriva 2010 free DVD fully updated. I had to do a full system restore on my Desktop PC of my installation on the one partition "sda11" as I accidentally deleted my bottom panel. Now on booting the system hangs on "waiting for ...

Message posted on the January 19th, 2010 - 8:32 PM ET

Cant start Vista after changing partions

I could really use some help with this error, its got me stumped. I have Vista Home Premium SP1 32 bit. Here is the story. I wanted to try out Windows 7, but I didn't want to upgrade Vista yet because it was still in beta. So I was going to ...

Message posted on the May 5th, 2009 - 8:30 PM ET

Can someone else help? Was changing partition size.

Tim Meddic originally replied. What he suggested did not work. He never answered my follow up question. This is all the correspondence: Tim, Finally had time to try this fix. I don't get on the screen what you say I will get. When I choose ...

Message posted on the June 4th, 2009 - 2:59 PM ET

Cloned Lenny OS partition: bumped into hibernate and grub2 issues

Howdy, fellow users of this magnificient OS called Debian! I've recently swapped the hard drive on my box, after cloning my Lenny (and other) partition(s) from the old drive that was becoming too small. I just did dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/hdb2 After ...

Message posted on the May 22nd, 2010 - 8:10 AM ET

Bug#565225: No /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume file after Sid upgrade

Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.97.2 Severity: normal I upgraded to Sid from Squeeze today and went to run "update-initramfs -u" after changing my /etc/uswsusp.conf file, and was unable to resume from hibernation. There was no ...

Message posted on the July 10th, 2010 - 9:40 PM ET

Fighting UBIFS failure after power surge on SheevaPlug

1. Problem Description 1.1 Setup I have a SheevaPlug running Debian. System is installed on nand Flash. Installation process is following: - First I boot up with USB stick and Debian installer images on it - Get Debian Installed and running on USB ...

Message posted on the November 8th, 2012 - 1:40 AM ET

Bootloader problems after installing a second distro

As mentioned in recent separate threads, I temporarily installed a second distro on my box to test and play with. I tried to do so in such a way that it would not affect my production distro, but what in fact happened was that the new bootloader ...

Message posted on the July 23rd, 2012 - 11:56 AM ET

Bug#604134: ppc: after debian installation MacOS 9.2 won't recognize, disk anymore

Dear Mr Wittau! To make sure that nothing unexpected will cause you troubles, please read through my complete text first before doing anything: I successfully run Debian "Lenny", Mac OS 9, Mac OS X 10.4, and 10.5 on my PowerMac G4/800MHz ...

Message posted on the January 3rd, 2011 - 7:50 PM ET

Changing drive letter of System volume under XP

There might be a very easy solution to this one or none at all, save for re-installing XP, so here's the situation and my question: I recently installed XP to a second hard drive while booted up to my primary drive, with the expectation of removing ...

Message posted on the June 2nd, 2009 - 12:45 PM ET

[RFC PATCH 0/2] block: Allow extending partition size online

Hi, This is a patch to allow extending the partition size online. There are two patches in the series. One is kernel patch and other is util-linux patch to add another command "extendpart". Kernel patch adds another ioctl to increase the ...

Message posted on the September 1st, 2011 - 6:00 PM ET

frustrated with access denied partition

hi all, i am a newbie here...anyways, I am running VISTA 32bit home edition. also working with EASEUS partition mgr 3 to take care of my 2 partitions: C:/ for OS and F:/ for my docs, and D:/ for my recovery. after performing, once again, another ...

Message posted on the April 10th, 2009 - 9:35 PM ET

Migrate primary partition from single disk to RAID array

I'm attempting to migrate SBS2003 installation from a single disk (PATA) to RAID1 (SATA). All hardware (other than the new HDDs) is the exact same - onboard RAID, but only supported with SATA drives. I've sucessfully imaged the drive with ...

Message posted on the April 5th, 2009 - 8:34 PM ET

Drive letters keep changing for some reason

OK I have a win XP Pro system with 4GB RAM and three hard drives 2 cd ROM's and 1 external USB hard drive, for some reason after a restart all my drives letters change. C is my main drive with single partition D is now my USB External drive single ...

Message posted on the May 26th, 2009 - 11:17 AM ET