![]() The latest version I used failed noisily on errors, as it should (not all NTFS systems can be cleanly backed up - as NTFS is rather "peculiar" - on those broken systems, I use manufacturer HDD software to clone the old drive to a new drive, then back up the image). My only complaint with the program was that an earlier version had silently failed during the backup (I knew this because I had backed up with Partimage which had noisily failed, and Clonezilla silently produced a save file even smaller than that failed image). The clonezilla route did the whole operation for me, backup and restore as a bootable disk. With the RAID drives and my SATA hard drive still unplugged, I plugged in my new SSD and put the Windows 7 hard drive into my SATA swap bay, planning to simply clone Windows 7 from the hard drive (along with installed programs and formatting) to the SSD. I've done this many, many times and is really just as simple as described. Then, once done, you'll need to modify the /etc/fstab file of the target, unless you are going to physically switch the cables to use the new drive. Instead, create them manually in the target partition. You'll want to explicitly list the dirs to copy and avoid certain ones, like /mnt, /proc, /tmp and /sysfs since they contain dynamic and temporary items. ![]() Then cd into the root '/' of your running system and run:Ĭp -a list-of-dirs target-drive-mountpoint And the new drive must be as large as the old one.Īmigo wrote:I agree that using dd is not the best thing unless the two drives are identical.Ĭreating a clone is pretty easy, though, Create and format the target partiton and then mount it. Note: it does not resize the restored partitions, so you'll have to do that afterwards, if your drive is larger. Shut down, and put in a blank drive, boot Clonezilla and push the image onto that blank drive. I migrated my tri-boot system (Win98, Puppy, Debian) to a larger HDD using this.īoot Clonezilla, and back up the master drive. Use the "beginner" instructions, and have a disk to place the image (I would store an image, then burn that image to your new drive). Since you're migrating a system, you still have the functional master, if the copy doesn't work. ![]() ![]() I have now migrated from using Partimage, to using Clonezilla for my backups. I recently tried the newest version, and found that it did correctly copy (and that it did complain when the copy operation went badly). It had silently "errored out", neither complaining nor crashing. OK, the regulars will recall that I have been very critical of Clonezilla in the past (Clonezilla is a live boot CD for backing up disks) - that older version had twice produced a "backup copy" that was not complete (thus, it was a truly false sense of security). Is it possible to clone one hard drive to another and include the boot sector so that the new hard drive will boot. ![]()
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