SSD is dying- clone help FINAL CURTAIN

Wayne Davis waydavis at centurylink.net
Fri Sep 13 22:54:34 MST 2013


Thanks everyone.  The conversion was... a success!
I used Clonezilla, then used qparted to resize my partition. Worked 
great with no surprises....  YAY!


> Wayne Davis writes:
>> OH NOES!
>> My SSD boot drive is about to die....   I can feel a disturbance in 
>> the force.
>> I JUST ordered (Sun evening) a new 128GB SSD to replace my ailing 64 
>> GB Boot drive.
>> IT WILL BE HERE MONDAY (tomorrow) and I think I need to do this 
>> asap.   It has Kubuntu 13.04
>> I HAVE a 500 GB external I could create a image file on...
>> OR I could create the image on another drive in the system (they are 
>> big)
>> HOW should I do this?
>>
>>
>>
>> IDEALLY, I'd like to:  Make the IMAGE,  put it on the new drive, and 
>> swap them out and have happy feet.8-)
>> However, with me... It's far more likely I will slave for hours, 
>> transfer garbage, lose everything,  and have my feet nailed to the 
>> floor. :'(
>> Is there a fairly easy way?
>> Thanks All... :-)



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