Need Help Cloning a Drive

[Mark Phillips]

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:

> Honestly I suggest clonezilla for this. It will get everything windows
> Linux grub etc.
>
I forgot to add that I first tried clonezilla, and it would not run on my
laptop. All I got was a black screen and a gray box.

Mark


> On Jul 17, 2011 7:48 AM, "Mark Phillips" <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
> wrote:
> > I purchased a larger hard drive (~750 GB)) for my laptop and want to
> clone
> > my current laptop drive (~320 GB) to the new one. The new drive is
> connected
> > to the laptop via usb - I can mount it and read/write to it. This is what
> I
> > did, but it didn't seem to work out...
> >
> > 1. Boot laptop using latest Knoppix
> > 2. umount both /dev/sda(old drive, internal to laptop) and /dev/sdb (new
> > drive connected via usb)
> > 3. I was going to use dd, but read that dd_rescue is a little better
> (read
> > error handling, reporting progress), so I installed that and fired it iup
> >
> > knoppix at Microknoppix:~$ sudo ddrescue -f -n /dev/sda /dev/sdb
> >
> >
> > Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
> > rescued: 320072 MB, errsize: 0 B, current rate: 29753 kB/s
> > ipos: 320072 MB, errors: 0, average rate: 29513 kB/s
> > opos: 320072 MB, time from last successful read: 0 s
> > Finished
> >
> > 4. I thought, time to use gparted to expand the Linux partition for my
> new
> > drive to the full size, and install the new drive.....but wait, there are
> > problems!
> >
> > knoppix at Microknoppix:~$ fdisk -l
> >
> > Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> > Disk identifier: 0x81d6785f
> >
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/sda1 1 5 40131 de Dell Utility
> > /dev/sda2 * 6 1918 15360000 7 HPFS/NTFS
> > /dev/sda3 1918 7017 40963092+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> > /dev/sda4 7018 38913 256204620 5 Extended
> > /dev/sda5 * 7018 37615 245778403+ 83 Linux
> > /dev/sda6 37616 38913 10426153+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
> > Note: sector size is 4096 (not 512)
> > Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
> > Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
> > Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
> > Warning: invalid flag 0xbfbb of partition table 5 will be corrected by
> > w(rite)
> >
> > Disk /dev/sdb: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 11400 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 4096 = 65802240 bytes
> > Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
> > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
> > Disk identifier: 0x81d6785f
> >
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/sdb1 1 5 321048 de Dell Utility
> > Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.
> > /dev/sdb2 * 6 1918 122880000 7 HPFS/NTFS
> > /dev/sdb3 1918 7017 327704740 7 HPFS/NTFS
> > /dev/sdb4 7018 38913 2049636960 5 Extended
> > Partition 4 does not start on physical sector boundary.
> > /dev/sdb5 ? 82628 130208 3057478824 48 Unknown
> > knoppix at Microknoppix:~$
> >
> > It appears that dd-rescue did what I expected it to do....copied sda to
> sdb
> > bit by bit. I am not sure what the warnings are for sda, but it looks
> like
> > dd_rescue did what it was supposed to do. However, What do I do about the
> > errors on sdb? GParted does not recognize the partition table for sdb,
> and
> > reports 698 GB of unallocated space.
> >
> > Thanks for any suggestions you may have to solve/explain what is going
> on!
> >
> > Mark
>
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