Need Help Cloning a Drive

[Mark Phillips]

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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