Comments on: Clone Disk Drives with Ubuntu. Make an Exact Copy of Your Hard Drive.

By: Steven West

Steven West — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:14:52 +0000

Thanks,

I’ve left it on for two hours and have only saved 465MB out of 60GB, I assume this is an over night job lol…

By: dimitar

dimitar — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:20:54 +0000

@Steven,

Yes, your drive could have errors. So it is not unusual.

By: Steven West

Steven West — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:14:42 +0000

Oh, cheers for that, I’ve currently got it now, and I’ve used the rescue code, I’m attempting to copy a entire drive to an external usb one, taking quite a long time, and I’m seeing there’s a few errors while I’m doing this, is this to be expected?

Thanks for your speedy reply.

By: dimitar

dimitar — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:17:26 +0000

@Steven,

Most likely you do not have the right repositories enabled that contain the gddrescue package. If my memory serves me right, the package is part of the Universe repository. Here is a quick guide about repositories and how to enable them:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/CommandLine

By: Steven West

Steven West — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:27:01 +0000

Hey, I’m currently getting ” Unable to locate package gddrescue” every time I attempt to download the rescue package, any ideas?

Running: Ubuntu Live CD

Thanks

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By: Neo

Neo — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 14:35:50 +0000

Great tutorial,

I have just upgrade the HDD of my Synology Ds106e with your solution.

I work fine.

Many thanks.

Regards.

Neo.

By: h4uw1n3

h4uw1n3 — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:10:07 +0000

Great Tutorial….

but i have a questions, if i clone one of few partitions…
example from disk 1 part 2 /dev/sda2 to /dev/sdb1
how to get it work? cause it didn’t clonethe boot sector also…
i lost the website address which explained about this….
i have done dd before… but i cloned the whole disk just like ur tutorial….
any idea to get this work?

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 16:04:28 +0000

THIS IS ANOTHER SOLUTION to COPYING A BOOTCAMP PARTITION.
For example you have a 2TB drive Mac 500gb Windows Bootcamp 1.5TB (HD1)
You wish to replace this with a new 2TB Drive. (HD2)
Format the new drive HD1 journaled.
Carbon copy your Mac partition from HD1 to HD2.
Make a new Bootcamp partition whatever size you want but large enough to conatin all your windows files and data.
Install Windows, Apple Drivers, and updates as for a NEW installation.
MAKE SURE you keep the same USER NAME and COMPUTER NAME as your current Bootcamp.
Now Boot into OSX in either drive
Zip your working Windows folder on HD1.
On your new Bootcamp partition (HD2) prefix the following with z
“Program Files” “Program Files (x86)” “ProgramData” “Recovery” “System Volume Information”
Copy these folders from HD1 to the new Bootcamp drive
Copy windows.zip to the new drive and unzip it.
rename your new Bootcamp user profile by prefixing “old” this is your User Name folder in “Users” HD2. Do this even though it has the same name as your old one. Copy your old user profile (within users) to the new users folder.
Copy any other non-system folder eg Documents etc from the old to the new Bootcamp drive and any folders that your working windows accesses..
DO NOT OVERWRITE any other system files such as bootmgr, Intel etc

REBOOT and it will work.

By: dimitar

dimitar — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:19:16 +0000

@ ranskalex,

Yes, that is correct. The boot loader will not be lost.