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 wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Mark Phillips > wrote: > >> I tried the alt media and it did not work. - 20110530-natty, >> >> >> Mark >> >> >> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Stephen 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" >>> wrote: >>> > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Stephen 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" >>> >> 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 >>> >> >>> >> --------------------------------------------------- >>> >> 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 >>> >> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> 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 >>> >> >> >