BIOS won't recognize all of hard drive

[CP]

It does work deleting and recreating the partition, I've done it myself a couple of times and never had a problem
CP

[kornp]

Well, I don't have another disk handy that's big enough, and I don't think the sys-admin would appreciate a 32 gig backup being on the school server...but If all else fails that's what I will try. But with conformation from CP that this can work, here goes nothing! Wish me luck guys for I am about to do something crazy without making a backup! ;D

[kornp]

Okay, damn, I just realized that it's friday (my grad weekend! woo!!! ;D) and I probably shouldn't do this through ssh, so I guess I'll have to wait 'till monday. :-\

[GhostDawg]

[quote author=trickster link=board=3;threadid=7086;start=0#66278 date=1054853055]Basically, create an image of your hard drive, either to another drive or to cd-rw, and then install the image again. It will allow you to resize the partitions ANY way you want it.

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So Windows' Ghost will make a complete image of the hard drive including Linux partitions, no matter what the filesystem type is?

Interesting. Does it have to be a certain version of Ghost?

[trickster]

It will. The latest version supports ext3. And it will allow you to resize.

I don't think it supports reiserfs or other exotic variants.

[kornp]

Okay, I managed to get it all fixed today! ;D Booted from the gentoo CD and first copied ext2resize to ramdisk, then using fdisk removed the partition and created a new one starting at the same block. Then used ext2resize and everything went perfectly! Thanks for all the help guys!