Re: Scandisk

[Donald McCann]

I clone a 4.3G to a 40G HD and yes scandisk could not see/read the new 40G hard drive. Did you clone your new disk? If so, it is the cluster sizes that are messing you up. FDisk, Reformat and Reinstall is the only way that I found to work for me. Hope this helps.

[PCR]

There was another way to fix that...

http://www.bootitng.com/ 's BootIt NG, has a variety of backup
capabilities: Copy to HDD, or Image to HDD or to CD. (TBIView, freely
downloadable, can retrieve individual files from an Image.)
Shrink/expand your partitions without data loss. Multi-boot, if you
dare. Free, run from floppy, but pay up as I did if satisfied. To
install & use beyond 30 days, $34.95.

However, take a quick look in the BootIt NG docs for an explanation of
"CHS Alternative". I'm not sure I fully understand it-- perhaps someone
else may say-- but, I believe you should select the alternative, if you
ever intend to use another party's partitioning tools on that HDD, such
as PQ, whatever.

........Start.........
CHS Alternative: If this option is enabled then the CHS values for
partitions and volumes will be filled in using an alternative method.
........End..........

I only run BootIt NG from the floppy. It has never failed me, in what I
do with it. I'm running on a partition that has been to HD1 & back and
shrunk. However, I must admit, I am somewhat fearful to actually install
the thing and boot with it. Here is how to run it from floppy.

(1) Download it: BootItNG.zip
(2) Unzip it; read the .pdf
(3) Click BOOTITNG.EXE to create a floppy
(4) Boot the floppy, which puts up an "Install" requester
(5) Click to cancel the install
(6) You are now in Maintenance Mode, running off the floppy
(7) Click the "Work with Partitions" icon

(8) It would go SOMETHING LIKE this. Bolt HD0 on left. Select the
malformed partition on right. Click the "Resize" button, & choose the
same size. I believe it then might offer to repair the cluster size or
just do it automatically. Better do a bit of research first, Kim.

Do check out "Aternative CHS".. I can't recall where that button is or
whether it matters for just this.


--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"Donald McCann" > wrote in message
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| I clone a 4.3G to a 40G HD and yes scandisk could not see/read the new
40G hard drive. Did you clone your new disk? If so, it is the cluster
sizes that are messing you up. FDisk, Reformat and Reinstall is the
only way that I found to work for me. Hope this helps.