On Fri, 02 May 2014 20:02:47 -0400, James Knott
I recently replaced the hard drive on my Thinkpad E520 with a larger one.
Hello, In the past used linux dd to copy disk image to another with this method: 1. put each disk in a usb case 2. Boot with a linux live cd 3. plug in each disk [they are not mounted] just powered on 4. opened a terminal session 5. used 'fdisk -l' to identify each disk 6. use dd to image one disk to another. Target disk is overwritten by source disk. 7. power off. 8. put the newly imaged disk drive in system. 9. power off/on system 10. pick partition to boot from. example follows: # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 64.0 GB, 64023257088 bytes, 125045424 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk label type: dos Disk identifier: 0xcc791374 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 63 36435419 18217678+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 * 36435420 61528949 12546765 83 Linux /dev/sda3 61528950 120119295 29295173 83 Linux /dev/sda4 120119296 125044735 2462720 82 Linux swap / Solaris Disk /dev/sdb: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes, 625142448 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk label type: dos Disk identifier: 0xb2a0a341 # NOTE: Target disk is same size or larger than source disk -next step is disk to disk transfer [entire image] -must get if= and of= correct * WARNING Target disk is overwritten by source disk * # dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb --Glenn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org