Comments on: Moving a Windows 2000 installation to a larger disk http://research.rolfes.org/computers/moving-a-windows-2000-installation-to-a-larger-disk/ possibly useful information Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:29:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: kevin http://research.rolfes.org/computers/moving-a-windows-2000-installation-to-a-larger-disk/comment-page-1/#comment-43 kevin Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:34:58 +0000 http://research.rolfes.org/?p=58#comment-43 Another tip: After copying the data to a new disk, you may want to reset the bad sector count (again, using Knoppix, sysresccd, or some other bootable Linux CD). The below text is from http://www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfsclone: <blockquote> 1. Back up important data from partition just in case 2. Find out size of '$Bad' attribute in $Badclus using ntfsinfo with ntfsinfo -i 8 <partition> (partition is for example /dev/sda1). It will be the “Allocated size” value in the “Dumping attribute $DATA (0×80)” (there will be two 0×80 attributes. Only one has an “Allocated size” line). 3. Use ntfstruncate <partition> 8 0x80 '$Bad' 0 to set $Bad's attribute length to zero. 4. Use ntfstruncate <partition> 8 0x80 '$Bad' <ntfs_size> to set $Bad's attribute length back to proper value which was recorded in step 2. 5. Boot into Windows and run chkdsk. It will find errors and should fix them. Unless you're certain that the bad clusters were just an error, It is recommended to do a full surface scan using either your hard disk manufacturer's tools or chkdsk /r after doing this.</blockquote> Another tip: After copying the data to a new disk, you may want to reset the bad sector count (again, using Knoppix, sysresccd, or some other bootable Linux CD). The below text is from http://www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfsclone:

1.
Back up important data from partition just in case
2.
Find out size of ‘$Bad’ attribute in $Badclus using ntfsinfo with ntfsinfo -i 8 <partition> (partition is for example /dev/sda1). It will be the “Allocated size” value in the “Dumping attribute $DATA (0×80)” (there will be two 0×80 attributes. Only one has an “Allocated size” line).
3.
Use ntfstruncate <partition> 8 0×80 ‘$Bad’ 0 to set $Bad’s attribute length to zero.
4.
Use ntfstruncate <partition> 8 0×80 ‘$Bad’ <ntfs_size> to set $Bad’s attribute length back to proper value which was recorded in step 2.
5.
Boot into Windows and run chkdsk. It will find errors and should fix them.

Unless you’re certain that the bad clusters were just an error, It is recommended to do a full surface scan using either your hard disk manufacturer’s tools or chkdsk /r after doing this.

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