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Anyone know of a howto on upgrading your drive without a complete reload?

 

I tried Carbon Copy Cloner, but the PC wont boot off the drive, invalid boot disk

 

I'm thinking these hackintosh boot sectors may be different from what carbon copy cloner is used to dealing with

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Original drive

 

Starting Ending

#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]

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1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 409639] <Unknown ID>

*2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 409640 - 71629904] HFS+

3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused

4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused

 

 

 

New drive

 

#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]

------------------------------------------------------------------------

*1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 976773167] <Unknown ID>

2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused

3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused

4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused

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With Acronis in XP I was able to clone a drive, but it would give me an error unless the new drive was larger. It worked fine cloning on to the larger hdd, but the new partition was the size of the smaller one, so you would then have to resize that partition to fill the new hdd giving you more room. I didn't try that. My system was MBR, and apparently GUID makes it easier to resize partitions.

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I was able to use hdclone to copy my drive

 

but I've not found a way to enlarge my 36 gig partition to fill up the drive, or at least take up another 100 gig

 

suggestions on resizing hfs+ ? Gparted wont let me do it either

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hatchery is a clone tool, I have a clone

 

all I need to do now is resize the partition to fill this 500 gig drive, right now I've only got 36 gig usable

 

no luck so far, disk utility wont let me create a partition either

 

 

2008-05-19 18:01:37 -0400: Partition failed for disk (null) The chosen size is not valid for the chosen filesystem.

 

 

Pretty sure this 0 byte partition is not supposed to be there, but I cannot remove it for some reason, and diskutil does not see it

 

diskutil list /dev/disk0

/dev/disk0

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *465.8 Gi disk0

1: Apple_HFS 0.0 B disk0s3

2: EFI 200.0 Mi disk0s1

3: Apple_HFS Leopard 34.2 Gi disk0s2

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