Hello,
I would like to share my personal approach I used in order to clone my HP dv6230 notebook’s old Seagate 80GB HDD, with dual boot opensuse-11.1/Windows Vista, to a new Western Digital 250GB HDD.
Googling is always in help, when you are looking for something and for this case it has been as well.
I have been very well impressed by an how-to I red from Linux.com :: Clone your Ubuntu installation onto a new hard disk where it was explained a procedure based upon Ubuntu Live CD and ddrescue http://software.opensuse.org/ymp/openSUSE:11.1/standard/ddrescue.ymp
I used the instructions detailed above and mixed/adapted with my specific case as opensuse-11.1 user.
So I did the following:
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first I installed ddrescue from the “one-click-install” link above
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then I rebooted my notebook, plugging my new 250GB, still inside its USB.2.0 case with opensuse-11.1 installation DVD choosing the “single-mode” option
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I “fscked” my / partition with fsck.ext3 -f /dev/sda4
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I ran /bin/dd_rescue -v /dev/sda /dev/sdb
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I wait almost 1 and half hour waiting ddrescue to finish the job
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Then I shutdown the notebook and I replaced the old 80GB with the new one installing the older into the USB case in order to have a ready backup for eventual comparisons
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I rebooted the system which of course** won’t starts! >:(**
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So I rebooted again, using once more the opensuse-11.1 installation DVD now choosing “repair-system” option,
which is very useful powerful and handy to correct every errors like boot loader (grub) and /etc/fstab 1. When I have been able to see my old O.S. booting and running again from the new 250GB HDD, I really smiled full of happines lol! -
Finally I shutdown again, rebooting the notebook with my Gparted live CD, used to resize the partitions.
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The final result has been worthwhile; I am not a “linux-guru” and it takes me almost 4 hours to finish the job, however now my disk looks like this:
** fdisk -l
Disco /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 byte
255 testine, 63 settori/tracce, 30401 cilindri
Unità = cilindri di 16065 * 512 = 8225280 byte
Identificativo disco: 0x0e9d9448
Dispositivo Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 7054 56661223+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 * 7055 9093 16378267+ f W95 Esteso (LBA)
/dev/sda3 9094 16764 61617307+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 16765 30401 109539202+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda5 7317 7355 313236 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 7055 7316 2104452 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 7356 9093 13960453+ 83 Linux
df -hk
Filesystem blocchi di 1K Usati Disponib. Uso% Montato su
/dev/sda3 60659972 6623808 51571472 12% /
udev 1993252 760 1992492 1% /dev
/dev/sda1 56661216 28082864 28578352 50% /windows/C
/dev/sda5 303344 24810 262873 9% /boot
/dev/sda4 107823248 8408456 95033224 9% /home
/dev/sda7 13741236 165312 12877904 2% /data1
hdparm -i /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Model=WDC WD2500BEVS-22VAT0 , FwRev=11.01A11, SerialNo= WD-WXEX08TFF875
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR>5Mbs FmtGapReq }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=50
BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=8192kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=?16?
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=488397168
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6
AdvancedPM=yes: unknown setting WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: Unspecified: ATA/ATAPI-1,2,3,4,5,6,7
- signifies the current active mode
**Thanks to linux world to make such things happens!