CHD's and removing unallocated space.

gobsgraham

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I have a Big Buck Hunter that I just copied the HD with CHDman but noticed that it is only using two partitions that equal less than 2GB. This is on a 7.5GB HD. I would like to put this image onto a 2GB CF card and try to convert it. Does anyone know how to remove the 5.5 GB of unallocated space from the CHD or a utility that will only CHD the 2 partitions that I want?

Thanks
 
If you have a backup copy of the drive to play with, you can try a freebie utility called Parted Magic to shrink the partitions down to the size of the data they contain. Keep in mind its possible that it may need the extra space as swap/memory space so I wouldn't make it as small as possible.
 
just chdman it back to the 2 gig card. it will time out when it runs out of space, tell you that it most likely will not work, but it will.
 
You're looking at this incorrectly. I've made the same mistake so let me share with you.

You need to be concerned with what CHDMAN shows as the LOGICAL size not physical size. Ignore what windows shows you for space used/free.
IIRC the command is chdman -info

You need to have a CF card that will host the logical size CHDMAN reports.
 
The logical size is showing up as 7.5GB which is the same as the physical size of the HD.

I will write it back to a 8GB HD drive and a 4GB CF card (which will fail) and test both of them.

Thanks guys.
 
Update

So the 8GB HD worked fine but the 4GB CF card did not. It would detect the CF as the HD but couldn't fine the boot sector or rom (I can't remember now).

Has anyone successfully done a CF HD for a GT. Do you have to use a certain brand of CF card or put a special file onto the card or format the card a certain way?

Thanks
 
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