Need Help Cloning a Drive

[Mark Phillips]

I took a look at clonezilla again, and found an amd64 iso in clonezilla
testing. I tried that one, and it worked on my laptop. I will try a clone
tonight (I like to make my laptop work while I sleep....;) ), so I will let
you know in the morning. Perhaps the ubuntu version was not amd64 and that
may be why it barfed? I tried the CD on a another machine (i386) and it
booted up OK.

As of right now, it is humming along nicely on the old drive.

Thanks!

Mark

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Mark Phillips
<mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz
> > wrote:
>
>> I tried the alt media and it did not work. - 20110530-natty,
>>
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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