I'm with Howard. I use Clonezilla often. Sometimes, I'll have to use GParted, first, to resize partitions, then use Clonezilla to copy stuff over and possible use GParted, again, to resize the partitions on the new drive.
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/05/2015 06:45 PM, JMJ wrote: > > <snip> > > >> I 'pulled the trigger' on the parts purchase this past weekend and have >> been assembling things yesterday and today. I forgot that the GFX card >> needs power via PCI-e connectors, and the existing PSU doesn't have any, >> so I'll be buying a PSU before installing the GFX card. While I wait on >> the PSU, I've been trying to get the drives moved over. >> >> As I mentioned, I do have a 240GB SSD. I want to copy my existing Linux >> and Windows partitions to the SSD, and install the existing HDD for >> extra storage and also to back-up the Linux/Win partitions to. There >> aren't any partition size issues, my root/home/boot/windows partitions >> will all be close to the same size or bigger. The rest of the 1TB drive >> will stay as is. >> >> I've tried a variety of things to get the data copied to the SSD, GRUB >> installed correctly, and the HDD installed as a second drive. Rather >> than bore you with the mistakes I've made, can someone tell me what I >> SHOULD do to make this happen? LOL Or is it a dumb idea to copy the >> data to the SSD and then use the HDD for backups? >> >> I'd prefer to copy as much to the SSD as possible, but if I have to, I >> can just re-install the OS on the SSD. >> >> Thanks for any advice! :-) >> >> JMJ >> >> > Clonezilla is my universal antidote for moving entire systems and MBRs (or > their UEFI equivalents) across disks. The challenge is moving from a > bigger disk to a smaller disk. If the HDD you already have is a 500GB or > some such, you may be in for gymnastics getting everything happy to move to > the SSD. > > Howard > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@ > googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ > group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
