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Cloning OS drive on Dell Studio 1747 laptop

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jim gurley
2015-02-21
2015-02-21
  • jim gurley

    jim gurley - 2015-02-21

    I'm trying to help a friend, and he is getting a SMART warning that his disk is about to fail. He bought an SSD drive and cloned his drive, but it didn't work. He handed the PC to me.

    It turns out, this laptop has two drives, so he replaced the wrong one. When I try to clone the proper drive with Clonezilla Live, it claims the target is smaller than the source drive. The target is a 480gb SSD while the source is a 465.7gb drive. I tried with the "ignore checking target size" and it only cloned one of the two partitions (not the OS partition).

    Any idea what I can due to get this done? The 'other' partition is the "recovery" partition, so I really don't care about it.

     
  • Fuchs

    Fuchs - 2015-02-21

    To replace some old harddrives by new harddrives:

    Make a defragmentation of your old OS
    and a
    chkdsk g: /f [/r] or so # on Windoows
    Then
    savedisk # with clonezilla

    A short summary for the cloning can you find in the attachment.

     

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