Re: [Xen-users] migrate from physical disk problems in xen

[Adam Goryachev <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19/01/13 07:34, Steven Peckins wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:31:42 -0500, Adam Goryachev
> <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I'm at a complete loss on how to resolve this issue, or what to
>> try/look at. If all else fails I figured to try and create a new 300G
>> drive, format it from win2k, and then somehow transfer the files from
>> Linux into win2k, without losing any of the permissions / etc which I
>> guess will be somewhat challenging.
>
> I've had good luck with the ntfs-3g utilities
> (http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/), namely ntfsclone,
> for copying NTFS partitions in Linux.  As an alternative to dd you
> might try formatting a new disk in the Windows domU, mount it on a
> Linux machine, and use ntfsclone to copy the original to the new
> partition.

Just wanted to say thank you to all, I've resolved the issue now as
follows (summary)
1) Format drive in windows 2000
2) Look in My Computer and see drive space is 127G
3) Google that Win 2000 supports drives larger than 127G in service pack
2 or higher
4) Know I've already installed service pack 4, verify it is installed
correctly
5) Stuff around
6) Google that you need to add a registry entry to support drives >127G
7) Add registry entry and reboot - see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305098 for details
8) Original dd copy of drive works perfectly
9) Celebrate, run around and test, go home. All up, 23 hours marathon
resulting in success!!

The only remaining question I have (which I don't care to experiment or
really find an answer to, but which possibly slowed things down...
Why when booting from Ubuntu i386 version 11.10 could it also not mount
the 300G partition with corruption errors/etc.

Regards,
Adam

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