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My current hard drive on my MacBook is 160GB with 2 partitions: Macintosh HD-140GB & Bootcamp-20GB, but both partitions were filling up so I wanted to expand to my 320GB hard drive. I have it attached using a USB to SATA adapter (http://www.amazon.com/Vantec-CB-ISATAU2-Supports-2-5-Inch-5-25-Inch/dp/B000J01I1G/). I cloned the Mac partition using Super Duper! (http://www.shirt-pocket.com/superduper/superduperdescription.html) and my Windows partition using Clonezilla (on a bootable cd) (http://clonezilla.org/). When I restarted my Mac I held down the option key to see my boot options and I saw my two internal partitions as I did before plus my new Mac partition, but not my new Windows partition. I booted into Ubuntu using a live cd, because I have found it easier to view & edit partitions with Ubuntu. Everything appeared normal. Here is a screenshot of my result of |
sda2=sdb2 (Mac) & sda3=sdb3 (Windows) As you can see the only thing different is the size of the drives and partitions, and the star under the boot column (Can anyone explain what that represents?) I did use 
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On some external drives they are not "Boot Ready" meaning that they cannot be used as a boot disk. Is there a way to make them "Boot Ready?" Unfortunately no. They have to be made from the manufacture that way and most these days do come boot ready. Unless I'm wrong there is no way to boot from that disk. But my mac partition on the drive is bootable, just not my windows partition. Well when you ghosted the windows partition it might have destroyed the boot informtion. Isn't there a way to put that back, or not? My one friend suggested using GRUB, but I couldn't get that to work, although I may have been doing it wrong. Or do you have another program you would recommend to clone/ghost my windows partition? Thats tricky because a Windows boot partition is very hard to restore. If you want to get that back I would suggest going to talk on the forums over at Microsoft so they can properly get it back and running. Thats the problem with Windows computers, you can;t ghost them because they will freak out. I would just reinstall it, but I have software on there that I don't have access to anymore. I may just leave windows on my current drive and then swap them. Thanks though. I just had an idea, if I install Windows on my new drive, can I restore from my current drive? Will that copy everything including the applications?
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