Need Help Cloning a Drive

[Mark Phillips]

I tried the alt media and it did not work.

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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