Then I notice 1mb of "unformatted space"... So I decide to expand the partition to fill it, because I told it to fill the drive dammit >_<
A small amount of space ending up outside your partitions is common. My Windows 7 install in VirtualBox has 9MB at of unformatted space at the end of the drive. Honestly not sure what's causing it. I have a couple guesses about where to look, but wasn't able to turn anything up quickly. It's generally not worth worrying about such a small amount of space on such a large disk.
Linux, telling you to do something via Windows? Epic fail.
Would you rather it just said "You're fucked. Nothing you can do"? I'm sorry nobody working on this piece of software for free has implemented the incredibly complicated thing that is a filesystem repair tool. Especially for a filesystem as undocumented as NTFS. At least it tried to tell you something to try.
Too bad surface mount parts are basically impossible to fix. ;_; Tricky, but not nearly impossible. Especially for something like a capacitor or
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Generally that happens when the drive partition isn't set to "ACTIVE", as in, a bootable system partition. Except, I already set it to ACTIVE.
A partition being marked "active" doesn't mean much. See wikipedia. The status field for a partition (which is what can mark the partition as active) is only there for use by the bootloader. The bootloader isn't part of the BIOS, it's whatever is stored at the very beginning of the hard drive (we already established this was GRUB). It's up to the bootloader to decide what the status flags mean, and if it cares.
Almost certainly, what you actually need(ed) to do is reinstall the windows bootloader in the MBR. You used to be able to do this from DOS/windows by running fdisk /mbr. Not sure if that's still the way to do it.
And, even though Kaya was formatted with HFS+ filesystem, and still full of data, data I hadn't had access to in years... Somehow both Linux and Windows saw it as unformatted for some reasonDifferent systems (PC and Macs
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I had already run fdisk /mbr. First step in a number of steps to rebuild the bootloader. It simply wouldn't work. Various steps kept failing, usually with an error "element not found".
And yeah, I did lose everything on Kaya, because it did create and install a 100mb partition on it the first time. Before I disconnected everything, beat it with a wet fish, and told it that it's grounded from playing with other children until it stops trying to force its religious views upon them.
Also, the current Windows partition manager really sucks. Gparted, with all it's little flaws here and there, is still the best I've ever used.
Also, the current Windows partition manager really sucks.
For extending a single partition like it sounded like you were trying to do, I expect it's more than adequate.
Gparted, with all it's little flaws here and there,
Have you reported these flaws? Software only gets better when the people working on it know what areas could be improved. Maybe they already know, but maybe they don't. If you have a bug or feature request, it goes here. I'm sure writing something up there nicely goes a lot more towards getting it fixed than bitching about it on a blog somewhere the developers will never see.
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A small amount of space ending up outside your partitions is common. My Windows 7 install in VirtualBox has 9MB at of unformatted space at the end of the drive. Honestly not sure what's causing it. I have a couple guesses about where to look, but wasn't able to turn anything up quickly. It's generally not worth worrying about such a small amount of space on such a large disk.
Linux, telling you to do something via Windows? Epic fail.
Would you rather it just said "You're fucked. Nothing you can do"? I'm sorry nobody working on this piece of software for free has implemented the incredibly complicated thing that is a filesystem repair tool. Especially for a filesystem as undocumented as NTFS. At least it tried to tell you something to try.
Too bad surface mount parts are basically impossible to fix. ;_; Tricky, but not nearly impossible. Especially for something like a capacitor or ( ... )
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Generally that happens when the drive partition isn't set to "ACTIVE", as in, a bootable system partition. Except, I already set it to ACTIVE.
A partition being marked "active" doesn't mean much. See wikipedia. The status field for a partition (which is what can mark the partition as active) is only there for use by the bootloader. The bootloader isn't part of the BIOS, it's whatever is stored at the very beginning of the hard drive (we already established this was GRUB). It's up to the bootloader to decide what the status flags mean, and if it cares.
Almost certainly, what you actually need(ed) to do is reinstall the windows bootloader in the MBR. You used to be able to do this from DOS/windows by running fdisk /mbr. Not sure if that's still the way to do it.
And, even though Kaya was formatted with HFS+ filesystem, and still full of data, data I hadn't had access to in years... Somehow both Linux and Windows saw it as unformatted for some reasonDifferent systems (PC and Macs ( ... )
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And yeah, I did lose everything on Kaya, because it did create and install a 100mb partition on it the first time. Before I disconnected everything, beat it with a wet fish, and told it that it's grounded from playing with other children until it stops trying to force its religious views upon them.
Also, the current Windows partition manager really sucks. Gparted, with all it's little flaws here and there, is still the best I've ever used.
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For extending a single partition like it sounded like you were trying to do, I expect it's more than adequate.
Gparted, with all it's little flaws here and there,
Have you reported these flaws? Software only gets better when the people working on it know what areas could be improved. Maybe they already know, but maybe they don't. If you have a bug or feature request, it goes here. I'm sure writing something up there nicely goes a lot more towards getting it fixed than bitching about it on a blog somewhere the developers will never see.
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