Need Help Cloning a Drive

[Bob Elzer]

Ahhh, much better, my eyes thank you :)

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[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Stephen
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2011 8:36 AM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: RE: Need Help Cloning a Drive



Just saw that. Oops. Try again.

On Jul 17, 2011 8:33 AM, "Bob Elzer" <bob.elzer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it my browser or is it your blog dim gray text on a dark gray
background
> ?
> 
> I can't see the thing to read it !
> 
> Sorry
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of
Stephen
> Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2011 8:13 AM
> To: Main PLUG discussion list
> Subject: Re: Need Help Cloning a Drive
> 
> now im at a computer i did a brief blog post about your very situation.
>
http://cryptworksapps.blogspot.com/2011/06/doing-rude-horrible-and-wonderful
> .html
> 
> clonezilla to clone the drive, and gparted LiveCD to adjust the partition
> sizes.
> 
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Honestly I suggest clonezilla for this. It will get everything windows 
>> Linux grub etc.
>>
>> 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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> 
> Stephen
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