Need Help in restoring multiple partition on a smaller drive.
I just got my new 250GB hard drive today and I can't seem to select my backup from my 500GB hard drive. The backup file size is less than 175GB. Is there a way to recover these? I thought it would allow me to restore by selecting file sizes.
Any clues to restore these partitions? Maybe 1 by one? or do they always need to match by file size.
Is there an order to do this? I have a dual boot system with windows 7 and ubuntu. Should the boot file go first, or just start at the top and work my way down?
I just decided to go ahead and try to resize anyway. My problem now is it wont let me continue as it wants previous information that seem to have been skipped (but I wasn't prompted for).
I read the instructions and they look like they are for a different version of ATI. The book says I should be in,"Restore Data Wizard", while mine says, "Restore Wizard", with all different looking menus and layouts.
I do remember telling the install program to check for latest updates, so maybe it is a different version altogether? It says my version is ATIH 2009, just everything looks completely different and the layout is totally different as well.
Are there other options to resize?
Mark:
The appropriate instructions for restoring partitions are in the ATI 2009 User Guide beginning with section 6.3.4 on page 57.
I would restore the partitions in the order that you want them to appear on the disk.
Remember that Windows 7 should be restored to a primary partition. If your Win7 installation had both the 100 MB System Reserved Partition and the larger main Windows partition, restore both as Primary. It won't be necessary to restore either of these partitions as Active, if you are using GRUB as the boot manager and if GRUB resides in Track 0. If GRUB is somewhere else - in the Ubuntu partition, for example - then make its partition active.
To make life easier, restore your Linux partitions to the same locations as they were previously so that you don't have to edit the filesystem table, fstab.
Restore Track 0 last.
Mark:
The appropriate instructions for restoring partitions are in the ATI 2009 User Guide beginning with section 6.3.4 on page 57.
Doh, it seems I downloaded v9 instead of version 2009.
I would restore the partitions in the order that you want them to appear on the disk.
Remember that Windows 7 should be restored to a primary partition. If your Win7 installation had both the 100 MB System Reserved Partition and the larger main Windows partition, restore both as Primary. It won't be necessary to restore either of these partitions as Active, if you are using GRUB as the boot manager and if GRUB resides in Track 0. If GRUB is somewhere else - in the Ubuntu partition, for example - then make its partition active.
It won't let me install the Ubuntu Partition as I am out of space still. Can I resize it somewhere besides restore? I got the windows partition just fine.
To make life easier, restore your Linux partitions to the same locations as they were previously so that you don't have to edit the filesystem table, fstab.
Restore Track 0 last.
Not sure what yu mean by same locations. I guess make sure I restore in same order as listed? Also, Track 0 is listed as partition 3, so is it okay to restore it 3rd? or should I do it last partition 5 or will that mess up GRUB?
Mark:
Would it be possible for you to post views of your two disks showing their partition layouts? The pictures would answer a lot of questions. If you have Acronis Disk Director, then post its graphic layout. If not, use Windows Disk Management.
Also, where is GRUB currently located on your 500 GB disk? Is it installed to the MBR or to a partition, and if so, which partition? If Ubuntu still works on the original disk, from a terminal type the command sudo fdisk -l and post the output here; that would also answer a lot of questions.
I don't know which partition GRUB is installed. But here's a link to my picture from Acronis of my 500GB partitions:
http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/3860/atih2009.jpg
I don't have any partitions on my new 250GB drive yet.
Thanks for all of your help
-=Mark=-
Mark:
The picture is helpful. It does show that your Windows partition currently has 174 GB of used space, so it is going to consume most of your smaller disk's space. Ubuntu doesn't need very much space; an 8 GB partition is more than adequate unless you are storing a bunch of user files in its partition. And the Linux swap partition only needs to be as large as your RAM size.
So here's what I'd recommend. You will have available space of 233 GiB (binary) on your 250 GB (decimal) hard disk. Do the restore in this order:
1. The Windows System Reserved partition, sized to 100 MB, restored as Primary, Active
2. The Windows 7 partition, sized to 220 GB, restored as Primary
3. The Ubuntu partition, sized to 9 GB, restored as Logical
4. The Linux swap partition, sized to 4 GB (assuming that you have 4 GB of RAM; otherwise reduce this size to the size of RAM), restored as Logical
5. MBR and Track 0 last.
You can set this up to all occur in one operation if you follow the menus and choose each partition in the above sequence. The last step will be to allow the operation to proceed.
Adjust the partition sizes to fill the disk and to fit your personal preferences, but the above is the general idea.
I suspect that the Ubuntu installer would have placed GRUB in the MBR as a default. Your graphic shows the Windows System Reserved Partition as Active, so if GRUB was NOT installed to the MBR the PC would always boot directly into Windows 7. If, when you start up your PC you see the GRUB menu screen, then GRUB was installed to the MBR. When you restore the MBR/Track 0 you will restore GRUB.