Need Help Cloning a Drive

[Stephen]

I have never seen that. It has run on a wild array of hardware. Try thealt
media based on Ubuntu. You might have better results
On Jul 17, 2011 8:46 AM, "Mark Phillips" <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
> 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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