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jimbean
April 21st, 2010, 10:26 PM
i want to clone old hard drive to new hard drive both are seagate 300 gig
ata drives i am using the seagate disk wizard cd with acronis clone utility
i have 2 partitions vista first and ubuntu second

any thoughts why it wont clone tried for 2 days
keeps saying not enough room

went to acronis web site and it said it was compatible with linux

acej1995
April 21st, 2010, 10:27 PM
Get a CD, and create a backup, then use the CD on the other hard drive and it should work.

noelvh
April 21st, 2010, 10:30 PM
Try Clonezilla it is the best clone tool I have every used. Google it and download the iso.

andrewthomas
April 21st, 2010, 10:31 PM
Just use clonezilla.

You beat me to it noelvh

jimbean
April 21st, 2010, 10:33 PM
thanks thanks and thanks