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I am trying to migrate a Windows partition (NTFS) from an old 1TB disk to a new 3TB disk.
To do this, I connected both disks, booted into Ubuntu Live, created a new partition (using GPartEd) on the new disk, and used ntfsclone
to clone the partition. Since the new partition was bigger (the whole point of migrating to the new disk), I also used GPartEd to "Check" the new partition which supposedly dealt with the partition size discrepancy.
The new partition works fine in Ubuntu Live (I can browse around, has the right label and size, etc.) but not in Windows 7. If I go to Disk Manager, I see the new partition as a "Healthy (Primary Partition)" of the correct size, but there is no drive letter assigned. If I right click, only the "Delete Volume" entry is enabled (even "Properties" is disabled!).
If I fire up diskpart
at a console, here is what I see:
DISKPART> list volume
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 0 C NTFS Partition 244 GB Healthy Boot
Volume 1 FAT32 Partition 100 MB Healthy System
DISKPART> list partition
Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- --------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 System 100 MB 1024 KB
Partition 2 Reserved 128 MB 101 MB
Partition 3 Primary 244 GB 229 MB
* Partition 4 Unknown 2257 GB 244 GB
DISKPART> detail partition
Partition 4
Type : 0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4
Hidden : Yes
Required: No
Attrib : 0000000000000000
Offset in Bytes: 262384123905
I'm not terribly familiar with administering Windows, so I'm not sure what all this means. It seems that Windows doesn't recognize that Partition 4 is an NTFS partition, which I imagine is the root of the problem. The Hidden: Yes
has me a little worried too, but I (speculatively) imagine it is a symptom of not recognizing the partition type. Any ideas how to address this? Hopefully without wiping the partition and making me have to copy it again?
First question I have is the disk using MBR or GPT? Because 3TB presents problems if its MBR. – Ramhound – 2014-01-06T17:15:13.717