Replace boot drive

[Jack McGee]

On 05/20/2017 03:46 PM, Xen wrote:
> Jack McGee schreef op 20-05-2017 22:10:
> 
>> Thanks, I tried that.  Problem is, since this originally was an XP
>> machine, the boot disk is NTFS.  I want the new boot disk to be EXT4.
> 
> It would be kinda odd if the boot disk was NTFS. The boot disk is either 
> NTFS or EXT4 but not both, if you know what I mean.
>
Thanks everyone. Indeed the original boot disk was NTFS as it was 
WindowsXP.  I installed Ubuntu and it put Ubuntu on a different drive 
(that was also NTFS, but it created EXT4 partition for Ubuntu).

I used Clonezilla eventually to clone the Ubuntu installation to the new 
drive.  I also tried to clone the NTFS drive again.  This has been a few 
days, but I think it went south when some helper program in Clonezilla 
suggested changing some inodes.  I let it.

After that it would only boot to emergency mode.

I ended up installing from scratch a new 16.04 onto a new partition on 
new drive and moved Thunderbird and Firefox profiles to get some 
semblance of my old installation.

I'm pretty sure I need to run boot-repair to sort all this out, but am 
challenged now getting the computer to boot off CD or USB stick.  I 
think my DVD drive is toast, when the new USB drive arrives, I will give 
that a shot.  Hopefully it can find my cloned Ubuntu and original XP 
partition.  If nothing else, to get back to my cloned Ubuntu 
installation would be great.