drive change

[sdavmor]

On 09/28/2010 04:27 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 09/28/2010 03:08 PM, Bill Wright wrote:
>> how can i change hard drives to another and retain o/s and data
>>
>
> Similar to what Alan suggests:
>
> 1. Power down&  connect both drives.[1]
> 2. Boot to the Ubuntu liveCD (live use mode, not install mode) - do
> *not* mount the drives.
> 3. Open gparted (System|Administration|gparted) and use the copy
> function to copy from the old drive to the new. Note: this will
> effectively do the same as if you were to use dd from the terminal to do
> the copy and will copy bit for bit).
> 4. Exit the liveCD, power down, disconnect the old drive, make sure that
> the new drive jumpers are properly set (Master)&  power up with the new
> drive. Immediately go to bios&  make sure that the drive is showing up
> properly etc.
> 5. Continue to boot to the new drive&  you should be good to go.
>
> Note: if you plan to use the old drive in the same machine as well need
> to change the UUID of the old drive so that it doesn't conflict with the
> drive that you just mirrored/copied, see:
> <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/202144>
>
> [1] If it is not possible to connect both drives in the same machine
> (for example if it is a laptop drive&  you are installing to a desktop
> drive), I use a nifty usb-sata-ide adapter from vantec:
> <http://www.vantecusa.com/front/product/view_detail/266>
> to connect via USB. Well worth the small investment IMO.

I have to do this fairly often for customers.  I use the bootable 
GParted CD.  It works very well.
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