On Mar 8, 2012, at 8:40 AM, Gilles wrote:

> On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:30:56 +0100, Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net>
> wrote:
>> You want to preserve contents of /dev/sda2?
>> What were you trying to change?  Just the starting sector of sda1?
> 
> I needed to recreate /dev/sda1 exactly as it was before, as unlike
> Linux, Windows7 doesn't seem to like it when we restore an image into
> a partition that's bigger than the original.

gparted will resize/move NTFS volumes. That's the part I think you've missed, 
is that you just changed the partition size, without resizing the file system.

Chris Murphy

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