lesson for today. fresh install > cloning a drive.
I actually had a decent run with cloning lately, but I still reinstalled this after a few weeks, having cloned it from a 80gb ssd drive a few weeks ago to my 256.
for some reason the program increased the partition size.
If I had known clonezilla was on my hirensbootcd flash drive, I'd have just used it, the last time I used it, it worked great, even to a bigger drive.