I have a 60gig hard disk with a 18gb C partition and a 60 gb D partition. I want to purchase a larger hard disk and make the c partition 80 gb and leave the D partition with the rest of the space. Can this be accomplished?
Thanks,
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I think I have a similar problem. On my Dell Latitude E6420, I currently have a 250 GB HDD partitioned with a 230 GB C partition and a 20 GB recovery Partition. I'm trying to upgrade to a 750 GB HDD. When going through the Beginner mode via DD, I get an error saying, "Can't have a partition outside the disk!" Will partitioning the target HDD help?
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Ok, here's an update on the situation. I did a bit of research and someone said to go to recovery console and run FIXMBR and FIXBOOT. I booted up with a WIN 7 disk but the repair tools did not see an OS nor does it see the HDD. Any suggestions on where to proceede?
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Ok After a bit of research, I noticed that other cloning tools do not work when the source sector size is 512 bytes and the target sector size is 4k. Would this be an issue for Clonezilla?
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Last update:
I gave up on the disk to disk cloning and imaged my source disk to a third HDD. Then did a restore from image onto the new (larger) HDD. Everything worked. I ended up removing the recovery partition to expand the usable space. All in all, using the image and restore worked for me.
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I have a 60gig hard disk with a 18gb C partition and a 60 gb D partition. I want to purchase a larger hard disk and make the c partition 80 gb and leave the D partition with the rest of the space. Can this be accomplished?
Thanks,
Basically yes, but you have to do that:
1. Create the partition table on the destination disk first. The size is as what you have mentioned.
2. Boot Clonezilla live, select "device-device" menu and enter the expert mode:
http://clonezilla.org/show-live-doc-content.php?topic=clonezilla-live/doc/03_Disk_to_disk_clone
and
http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live/doc/03_Disk_to_disk_clone/advanced/05-advanced-param.php
Remember to check "-r" option, and choose "-k" option.
Basically that's all.
Steven.
I think I have a similar problem. On my Dell Latitude E6420, I currently have a 250 GB HDD partitioned with a 230 GB C partition and a 20 GB recovery Partition. I'm trying to upgrade to a 750 GB HDD. When going through the Beginner mode via DD, I get an error saying, "Can't have a partition outside the disk!" Will partitioning the target HDD help?
TIA
"Will partitioning the target HDD help?" -> Maybe. Did you try that?
Steven.
I got a bit further, but when I swapped the HDDs the 750 GB halts at a black screen with a flashing cursor.
"a black screen with a flashing cursor." -> I believe this is something to do with boot loader. Did you process that manually?
Steven.
No I did not. Does Clonezilla handle that? If not any tips on how to do so?
Ok, here's an update on the situation. I did a bit of research and someone said to go to recovery console and run FIXMBR and FIXBOOT. I booted up with a WIN 7 disk but the repair tools did not see an OS nor does it see the HDD. Any suggestions on where to proceede?
Thanks
I am not familiar with the MS windows.
Anyone on this forum can share his/her experience?
Steven.
Ok After a bit of research, I noticed that other cloning tools do not work when the source sector size is 512 bytes and the target sector size is 4k. Would this be an issue for Clonezilla?
Yes, that could be an issue. You can clone or image that by Clonezila, but you need to tune the layout after cloning.
Steven.
Last update:
I gave up on the disk to disk cloning and imaged my source disk to a third HDD. Then did a restore from image onto the new (larger) HDD. Everything worked. I ended up removing the recovery partition to expand the usable space. All in all, using the image and restore worked for me.
Thanks for the report.
So you mean disk (512 bytes) to disk (4K bytes) cloning failed, but image restoring worked there?
Steven.