Can anyone explain to me what is happening here? Improve this question. I really don't know. I went to Device Information in GParted and it said msdos under partition table. I don't know if that means anything to you or if it is just me highlighting my lack of understanding. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Source: GParted manual Boot is just a I needed to use a Windows recovery disc to repair the partition Yes, because restoring the partition probably didn't restore a working bootloader.
Now I have done the same process again, except this time Windows boots immediately Newer Windows versions I guess 7 and 8, 8. Improve this answer. Cornelius Cornelius 2, 1 1 gold badge 14 14 silver badges 24 24 bronze badges.
In both cases, I did the recovery with Windows 7. If these versions of Windows install the bootloader on a separate partition, then this is not consistent because with the first PC the one that needed the repair , there was no bootloader on a separate partition. Which is the exact reason I asked. Still have not recieved a statisfactory answer. I didn't provide a satisfactory answer because I don't know. I do not recall this when booting with the older PC the one that does require the recovery disk.
Confusingly, the boot partition has the active flag, and the C: partition has a boot flag. At least on my windows 7 x Implying that the boot flag is meaningless, and the active flag means bootable at least on windows.
Thus, chances are one of two things happened in your recent experience: You happened to restore to a partition with the same starting sector number as the original, and either you restored the MBR or the target disk had a compatible MBR in place already. Now, select a piece of unallocated space on your second disk. Step 8. When you click the Paste button, a new window will open that requires you to define how much of the unallocated space to use.
If it is not enough, you can resize the partition to make more room. Step 9. Although GParted claims to be able to clone partition to another hard drive, sometimes it fails especially when cloning partition to smaller disk. Below is a real user case:. I can copy the contents of the smaller partition from the old disk to the new one. Their partition sizes are similar.
Any idea, please? So, the clone steps are much more simple. This method allows cloning partition to smaller disk or drive. In this window, choose a proper partition clone method based on your situation. You can refer to the installation tutorial.
Select a target device to install the image file. Use the USB drive to boot your computer. You will soon see the GParted Live interface. After the keymap, language and video mode questions, you could start using the program. Click on the drive path on the top-right corner and you will see a list all the hard drives that are currently connected.
You can distinguish them by the different sizes. Then, n ote down the drive names of the source disk and target disk, double-click the Terminal icon and enter the dd command to perform disk cloning. The default value is bytes. Shut down the PC to replace the hard drive, then power it on. The PC will boot to Chkdsk screen, and when it's done, Windows shall boot up normally. And sometimes Windows may fail to boot after shrinking the system partition.
So personally, I prefer to use a powerful tool with more intuitive operation. If you want to clone only OS to another hard drive, you can also upgrade to Professional edition for support. Delete unwanted files and uninstall unnecessary programs.
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