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06-Jun-2008, 10:00 PM #1
Exclamation grub error 17
Hi, I recently ran out of space on my laptop's hard drive which prompted me to buy a larger one. Just so you know i have a dual boot of Ubuntu 8.04 and Windows XP, and I upgraded from a 60GB Hitachi Travelstar to a 160GB hitachi Travelstar.

Anyway, i went out and bought a new HD and an enclosure and i cloned the old one onto that. I then switched them out and thought great now all I need to do is enlarge the partitions and thats that. But no! When I switched on and the grub started to load up, I was confronted with an Error 17.

Does anyone know how to fix this. Please help I'm back to using my old hard drive till I get this fixed and its irritating have no space left.
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07-Jun-2008, 06:15 AM #2
My verdict = You didn't clone the hard disk correctly.

This is one of the correct ways and is the simplest.

If the hard disk has been cloned correctly the boot sectors, partition table and every partition would have been in the exact positions in the new hard disk and the error 17 could not occur.
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07-Jun-2008, 08:58 AM #3
Thanks for the link saikee. Im cloning my laptop now and will let you know the result when it is finished.
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07-Jun-2008, 01:43 PM #4
Same thing happened. I must be doing something wrong, but i have no idea what.

I've decided to do this: copy all important files from ubuntu partition to my desktop; format the ext3 to FAT32 and enlarge it to swallow up the swap; reboot to windows and rewrite the MBR; clone drive; and then reinstall ubuntu.

Hopefully this will work. Of course this is going to take a lot longer than i had hoped it would but its the best i can come up with.
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