I have a 500 gb SATA boot drive running WinXP that is 95% full. I have a blank 1 tb SATA drive that I want to transfer all of the data onto and make the bootable disk.
I have attempted to use Clonezilla (boot from CD) to copy disk to disk. Both times the data has transferred (I booted into the original drive and checked the data) but when reboot with only the 1tb (new) disk attached it doesn't boot. I get a message like "A disk read error has occurred, press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart"
I simply want to install a larger harddrive without having to re-install WinXP and all my software.
Can Clonezilla do this? What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
CR
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CR,
If your source disk contains a recovery partition which your vendor provided, it's recommended to avoid using option "-k1"... Since you did not describe more about how you run disk to disk mode, and you also did not mentioned which Clonezilla live version were you using...
There is a known issue about this and it's fixed (I hope so) in the latest Clonezilla live (1.2.1-53)...
Steven.
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Thanks Steve for you help ... but I gave up on Clonezilla. They are Seagate drives, so I used Seagate's disk wizard utility to clone the drive. It was simple, fast and it worked the first time.
Cheers,
CR
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Hey, hopefully somebody can help me.
I have a 500 gb SATA boot drive running WinXP that is 95% full. I have a blank 1 tb SATA drive that I want to transfer all of the data onto and make the bootable disk.
I have attempted to use Clonezilla (boot from CD) to copy disk to disk. Both times the data has transferred (I booted into the original drive and checked the data) but when reboot with only the 1tb (new) disk attached it doesn't boot. I get a message like "A disk read error has occurred, press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart"
I simply want to install a larger harddrive without having to re-install WinXP and all my software.
Can Clonezilla do this? What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
CR
CR,
If your source disk contains a recovery partition which your vendor provided, it's recommended to avoid using option "-k1"... Since you did not describe more about how you run disk to disk mode, and you also did not mentioned which Clonezilla live version were you using...
There is a known issue about this and it's fixed (I hope so) in the latest Clonezilla live (1.2.1-53)...
Steven.
Hi Steven,
I am using 1.2.1.39. So I will try the newer version.
I was using all the default options for disk to disk copy -- but now I know to avoid -k1.
Thanks for you help, hopefully it works.
CR
CR,
By default, "-k1" won't be used.
Please keep us posted.
Steven.
Thanks Steve for you help ... but I gave up on Clonezilla. They are Seagate drives, so I used Seagate's disk wizard utility to clone the drive. It was simple, fast and it worked the first time.
Cheers,
CR