Cloning OS drive on Dell Studio 1747 laptop

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Cloning OS drive on Dell Studio 1747 laptop

Forum: Help

Creator: jim gurley

Created: 2015-02-21

Updated: 2015-02-21

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.

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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.

Cloning to a smaller target HDD

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