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