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

By: Aron

Aron — Sat, 12 May 2012 18:37:21 +0000

I know this post isn’t new, still hoping for help.

Im running 12.04 LTS hoping to clone a failed/failing 160gb mac hard drive. I think Im ready to go, except where I read I need to prepare the target drive by putting an initial partition on it.

I was hoping to use a 750gb external drive that I already have. Thing is, I currently use it for extra storage and am afraid I’ll lose all of that data if I proceed.

Is that so? Am I missing something?

By: tag

tag — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:25:30 +0000

I was able to clone the hard drives. Thank you.

The ‘w’ key worked. It was CAPS W (shift + w).

Thank you.

By: tag

tag — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 13:38:58 +0000

Thank you for the article. Started the clone using ddrescue.

Also, running sudo cfdisk only started the console and I had to use the interface to create a partition and write to it. (the key ‘w’ didn’t work for me.)

And while running ddrescue, it prompted me to use the –force parameter as it had a partition.

Just wanted to inform you.

Thank you again for the article.

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.