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 wrote: > Honestly I suggest clonezilla for this. It will get everything windows Linux > grub etc. > > On Jul 17, 2011 7:48 AM, "Mark Phillips" 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@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@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@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 > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss