Need Help Cloning a Drive

[Stephen]

Woo hoo!
On Jul 17, 2011 11:55 AM, "Mark Phillips" <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
wrote:
> 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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