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I have a BIOS-based motherboard, dual (1.5TB) drive, dual boot (Arch/Win7, both 64b) PC, and use GRUB (current, not legacy) bootloader installed on the Win7 HD. Both HDs were MBR formatted and include several partitions. Both OS-fully updated (up to 3 days ago). Two days ago the Win7 HD (which also includes the Arch separate /var and swap partitions) sent a SMART Alert it's about to fail. Thus I've installed a new, larger (3TB) replacement drive. To overcome MDSOS/MBR limitations, I've partitioned the new drive using GPT (GUID) and prepared a new 2M BIOS GRUB (first) partition per the Wiki's recommendation. Using live clonezilla, I managed to clone the Windows (C), and var partitions (although I've lost some win data which was on a separate partition). Now I plan to chroot into Arch and reinstall GRUB on the new drive (and edit fstab to reflect UUID changes). As I have no GPT experience, I would appreciate answers to the following questions: 1. Have I forgotten anything? 2. Should I convert also my Linux HD (the one that did NOT fail) to GPT or can I leave it MBR? 3. My former (failed) Win partition was boot flagged. Do I need to boot flag the BIOS GRUB or the (new) Windows partition (both on the "new" drive)? 4. On the new drive, I've creaed a 2.6TB NTFS partition (photo storage, replacing a former 1.2 TB one). Will Win 7 recognize it? |