Questions tagged [partition-copy]
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Windows shows smaller size of hard drive after cloning partitions
I upgraded my Windows hard drive, and now have a space problem.
I inserted a new 240GB SSD, used CloneZilla to clone my old 120GB Windows C: drive SSD to this new one, switched the SATA cables, and turned on the computer.
Everything works great with…
themike
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How to copy Microsoft Reserved Partition partition from hard disk drive to SSD using GParted?
I’m using GParted to clone all data from HDD to SSD on each Workstation in our Company.
I got two problems there:
How do I copy the Microsoft Reserved Partition? GParted marks this as unknown (which is absolutely understandable, since GParted is a…
SimonS
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Imaging and compressing NTFS partitions from a Linux boot disk
first this question is not a dupe of:
https://superuser.com/questions/7739/windows-backup-by-imaging
I've used Norton Ghost extensively in the past (actually I was already using Ghost before Norton bought it) and one of the thing I liked is that it…
Weezy
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How to partclone an NTFS partition to a smaller disk without having space for the full image
Every now and then I have got the following problem:
A disk fails and the replacement disk is smaller. The data often easily fits the smaller disk, but partclone simply does not shrink the filesystem to match the smaller partition size.
You can…
JPT
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How can I expand a partition to the left in Linux (or any other OS)?
I want to expand my 54 GB partition by 11 GB.
How can I do it? I know copying the data might do the trick, but I want some other solution as there isn't enough space for me to copy the data.
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Changing the sda partition number in a clonezilla img
I want to copy a linux system from a computer to mine. That linux system is using two partitions. ("/" and an other one)
I used clonezilla to copy thoses two partitions and put them in an image. But when I clonned them, they kept their partitions…
Red
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Btrfs volume management for normal home user
Btrfs is by design for enterprise use, but that doesn't stop normal home users from using it. By normal home user, I mean those people who don't use complicated setup like mirroring, or any level of RAID. They just use hard disks like hard disks,…
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Install Windows 8 from copy (not iso) of recovery partition
I have an Asus Vivoobook x202E which came with Windows 8 preinstalled. I used both Ubuntu and Windows for a short while, but then it all went to crap and I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 13.10 instead, which I have been using exclusively ever…
Haxxel
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How to copy partition table in sfdisk and edit last partition to use all free space?
I've seen a number of variations on this, but nothing that puts all the parts together. I'm doing this on a Linux system
I know I can use sfdisk /dev/sda
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How to clone Windows 10 Home from SATA SSD to new nVME SSD?
Here's my particular situation:
Have a new MSI Codex R desktop which came with a 500 Gb SATA SSD with Win 10 Home. I've booted up, pulled windows update, installed my G513 Carbon keyboard driver and a webcam driver from Logitech. That's it. The…
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dd a linux volume from windows
I'm booting Lubuntu from Windows 7 by installing Grub in the linux partition itself (and not the MBR), dumping the first 512 bytes of the linux partition on a linux.bin file and then booting linux.bin from Windows bootloader.
There is a problem:…
mfloris
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How to clone second onto primary partition in MacOS
I have weird situation in my iMac drive. I have 2 equal size partitions (2x250Gb). I have tested new OS version (Sierra) on second partition and erased primary partition cause Sierra works smoothly. I wanted to reduce size of primary partition to…
Војин Петровић
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How to backup the partition table of a mmcblk disk
I've been using parted-magic to backup my computers' system disks for a while.
So far I've been using either sfdisk or sgdisk for saving the partition table; most of the time, if sfdisk fail I'm using sgdisk and everything works, but I got a new…
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Computer gets very slow while copying files (of any size) from 1 partion to other
I have a 1TB WD internal Hard Disk. There are 2 partitions (500gb each). Whenever I copy something from primary partition (C:) to secondary partition (D:), computer gets really slow. You simply can't browse, or watch videos or anything.
Any tip ?…
Dho
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Windows doesn't correctly detect partition migrated from old disk with ntfsclone
I am trying to migrate a Windows partition (NTFS) from an old 1TB disk to a new 3TB disk.
To do this, I connected both disks, booted into Ubuntu Live, created a new partition (using GPartEd) on the new disk, and used ntfsclone to clone the…
Nicu Stiurca
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