Moving My System to a New Disk After a Crash

[Ric Moore]

On 07/29/2012 12:59 PM, Luan Pham wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 09:52 -0600, compdoc wrote:
>> Read the drive's SMART info. It states number of hours in use, the
>> temperature, and if there are any reallocated sectors. On some drives
>> it shows if the drive has seen a hard shock such as when it's been
>> dropped.
>>
> Or download a copy of Hirens CD Boot Disk ISO, since they got a lot of
> HD utilities to see how healthy the drive it. I always carry the latest
> copy with me when I visit customer site to fix PC problem.
>
Or, just install the new drive and your old drive as slave. Install the 
latest/greatest version of Ubuntu to the your system, leaving the second 
drive alone. After you are booted into your fresh install, mount the old 
small drive to /opt. Then you can just copy whatever you think you need 
to the new drive onto a fresh install.
Ric

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