AFriendlyNerd
October 31st, 2014, 04:43 PM
UPDATE: I figured it all out, thanks to lots of forum posts and GParted. If you find your NTFS partitions hosed by Clonezilla, read my third post below. Run chkdsk /f twice on the old partition, and then use GParted on a lived to merely copy and paste over the bad copy onto the new drive.
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Original post:
It seems every time I do this, I fail to grasp certain things and break my server. Can you guys walk me back to being operational again?
I am running Ubuntu 14.04 on an ASUS X401a laptop, with the new UEFI style intel mobo. I had a 500GB drive with multiple formatted partitions, some the default linux format, a swap, a Windows partition, an NTFS and a FUSEBLK partition. I had it set up to boot into grub2, I think, and go to Ubuntu unless I make a different selection at the loader screen. My intent was to clone to a 1TB SSD.
I used Clonezilla but either it's not up to the task of multiple partition formats, or I needed to do more than follow the default tutorial.
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NEW DRIVE:
The new drive boots up and there are key partitions missing (Ubuntu asks me if I want to press S or M), namely the NTFS partition that is critical to most of the operations of this media server. Maybe it's because all the numbers of the partitions are different, and I need to edit fstab? In the desktop GUI, Ubuntu only sees Ubuntu partition, I think.
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OLD DRIVE:
So, I thought, no problem, I'll just boot from the old (now external) drive and try cloning it again. It boots straight into Windows 8.1 recovery mode, and I can't get it out. Clonezilla told me to run chkdsk on the windows partition, and I think I wound up overwriting the boot up method entirely. I booted up a LiveCD on USB, and tried the Boot Repair feature, but it seems to try and repair the New Drive. I can't figure out how to make it repair the old external drive.
I would rather not manually remove and insert these drives around again, because this is a cheap laptop that practically requires complete disassembly to change SSD's.
Please help me get either the new drive loading all partitions, or the old drive operational again so I can take another stab at cloning successfully.
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Original post:
It seems every time I do this, I fail to grasp certain things and break my server. Can you guys walk me back to being operational again?
I am running Ubuntu 14.04 on an ASUS X401a laptop, with the new UEFI style intel mobo. I had a 500GB drive with multiple formatted partitions, some the default linux format, a swap, a Windows partition, an NTFS and a FUSEBLK partition. I had it set up to boot into grub2, I think, and go to Ubuntu unless I make a different selection at the loader screen. My intent was to clone to a 1TB SSD.
I used Clonezilla but either it's not up to the task of multiple partition formats, or I needed to do more than follow the default tutorial.
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NEW DRIVE:
The new drive boots up and there are key partitions missing (Ubuntu asks me if I want to press S or M), namely the NTFS partition that is critical to most of the operations of this media server. Maybe it's because all the numbers of the partitions are different, and I need to edit fstab? In the desktop GUI, Ubuntu only sees Ubuntu partition, I think.
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OLD DRIVE:
So, I thought, no problem, I'll just boot from the old (now external) drive and try cloning it again. It boots straight into Windows 8.1 recovery mode, and I can't get it out. Clonezilla told me to run chkdsk on the windows partition, and I think I wound up overwriting the boot up method entirely. I booted up a LiveCD on USB, and tried the Boot Repair feature, but it seems to try and repair the New Drive. I can't figure out how to make it repair the old external drive.
I would rather not manually remove and insert these drives around again, because this is a cheap laptop that practically requires complete disassembly to change SSD's.
Please help me get either the new drive loading all partitions, or the old drive operational again so I can take another stab at cloning successfully.