rogerh Posted February 22, 2012 Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 Hello, Hopefully the last question associated with my motherboard upgrade. I have a 150GB IDE drive that currently holds everything for the computer, including my upgraded to current Mandriva 2010.2. I am getting a 150GB SATA drive, and would like to migrate the contents of the bootable IDE drive to this SATA drive. Is this fairly simple, or should I wait until the next time I upgrade the OS (probably a year or two)? My objective is to minimize the time that I run with the current IDE to SATA drive converter/adapter that I am using now. If the drive migration process is easy, instructions would be helpful (or a pointer to where the info can be found). Thanks -- Roger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 It has been a few years, but I believe I used Clonezilla (http://clonezilla.org/) to do disk imaging in the past. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 CloneZilla will be able to do it no problems in terms of data copy etc and should even sort out grub booting etc. If it doesn't boot, then the easiest option later would be to do this. 1. Install the new disk as the first disk in the system. 2. Attach the old disk as the second disk in the system. 3. Boot and install new system on the first disk. 4. Create a new home directory on the new disk. 5. Copy data later once rebooted from old disk to new disk - only data for your username in /home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerh Posted February 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Hello, Thanks for the suggestions. Sounds like my best bet is to just reload the system. I already have save the desktop info on a DVD, so I am pretty much set... Thanks again -- Roger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K Bergen Posted February 24, 2012 Report Share Posted February 24, 2012 Since the disks are the same size and if you have a Live CD dd might be a good option. Boot the CD open a terminal and su to root, then dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/sdY where X is the old disk and Y is the new disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerh Posted March 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 The SATA to IDE adapter for my IDE drive is working well for the moment, and I have the SATA drive as backup. I will just reload the new system on the SATA drive when I need to transition systems (or if the adapter or IDE drive fails). Thanks for the input and suggestions. Problem solved. Thanks again -- Roger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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