Well, Clonezilla is having problems cloning my drive.
I first booted into Debian and created one big ext3 partition on the new
drive (750 GB), old drive is 320 GB. Then fired up Clonzilla. I took all the
defaults, chose device to device, expert, and local disk to local disk, and
chose sda as the source and sdb as the target. l kept the default options:
-g auto -e1 auto -e2 -j2 -v, and 'use the partition table from the source'.
I get a' successfully wrote partition table'. Then I get the "Error can't
have a partition outside disk" and Clonezilla dies. Here is what I get with
fdisk after booting back into Debian
orca:/home/mark# 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
orca:/home/mark#
Any ideas how I can fix this error and clone my drive to the new drive?
Thanks,
Mark
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Stephen <
cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:
> Woo hoo!
> On Jul 17, 2011 11:55 AM, "Mark Phillips" <mark@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@phillipsmarketing.biz>wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Mark Phillips <
> mark@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@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@phillipsmarketing.biz>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>> > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Stephen <cryptworks@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@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@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
> >>>> >>
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