dying hard drive copy - afterwards

[jakkwb]

Hello all. Laptop had a hard drive that had developed some errors on it (Windows XP Home, trying to boot would just blue screen and reboot).

Bought new hard drive and copied old to new on seperate PC. Put new in laptop, booted into Windows OK. Went ahead and ran chkdsk with both options checked to fix possible copy problems. Went fine.

Well, the newer hard drive of course was larger, so now I am trying to resize the main partition. I am trying Easeus Partition Manager. Problem is, it starts the process, but stops and says there are errors on the partition that must be fixed before it can resized. So, I ran chkdsk again (this time from the Windows CD in repair mode). Try the partition resize again, same error!

What gives?

[geoscomp]

Have you tried running chkdsk /r by booting from a windows xp disk and using recovery manager? Some disk problems can't be fixed if you run chkdsk from within windows

[jakkwb]

Yah, I tried that.

[Niclo Iste]

I don't resize partitions a lot but I thought resizing a partition/drive that's currently in use causes conflicts in the first place. I would suggest slaving the drive you want to resize on and doing it throuh a host computer.

[Ferrit]

I would recopy and do the resizing in the copy process.
Thats likely where it should have been done in the first place

[jakkwb]

Yah, I have tried it to enlarge the partition on a different PC.

Can anyone tell me one that copies and enlarges that is free?

[Platypus]

What brand are the drives? If they include Seagate, Maxtor or Western Digital, the free TrueImage from Seagate (DiskWizard) or WD (DataGuard TI WD Edition) will resize the partition as it clones. I've just changed the system partition size as I cloned between between my laptop's WD and a Vertex SSD. There just needs to be one of the relevant manufacturer's drives in the system, e.g. Seagate or Maxtor to use Seagate DiskWizard.