[ale] failing drive

[Paul Cartwright]

On 04/09/2014 07:25 AM, JD wrote:
> I haven't done this migration with Win7, just WinXP. I'd think it would work.
> HDDs are one of the few things that Microsoft's DRM doesn't seem to care about
> for upgrades.
>
> Clonezilla is fine.
>
> ddrescue is another way, if the sector sizes match between the old and new HDD.
> It doesn't crash when a bad sector is hit like dd does.
>
> gparted will also copy partitions.
>
> Last fall I migrated a netbook from 160G to 500G.  The 160G was 512b sectors and
> the 500G has 4Kb sectors. In that situation, let gparted create the partitions
> so they are aligned properly. Performance was terrible until I shifted the
> alignment.
I am going from a 1TB drive, to probably a 2 TB drive.. since I don't
have the new drive yet, I don't know about sector sizes..
my existing drive is 512 byte sectors:
 p
Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x77e3ed41

Device    Boot      Start        End    Blocks  Id System
/dev/sda1              63      80324     40131  de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 *         81920   30273535  15095808   7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3        30273536 1625841663 797784064   7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4      1625843710 1953522972 163839631+  5 Extended
/dev/sda5      1779974144 1953522972  86774414+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6      1625843712 1637560319   5858304  82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7      1637562368 1676620961  19529297  83 Linux
/dev/sda8      1676623872 1779970047  51673088  83 Linux

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Paul Cartwright
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