Cloning a Drive

[Elroy]

I won't go into how it came about but I needed to move my install from one drive to another. I didn't want to have to do a fresh install, add backups etc. so I tried it with my Acronis Recovery CD. For those who don't know, Acronis is a disk imaging and back up program for windows. Acronis recognized all the linux partitions resized them (except for the swap) to fit the new drive, gave a warning that the new drive might not boot and what to do.

The whole process took less than 10 minutes, resize from 120gig to 160gig, and when it was finished the computer booted from the new drive with no problems. I was surprised that it was so easy and will experiment with taking an image and doing back ups, which can be done from the CD. I hope this helps someone. Oh yeah! I have version 10 home edition.




























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[dougal]

How does this compare with ddcopy. I am about to get a new PC at work and want to do the same. I presume you have to buy the Acronis product?

I will be going from a 160Gb drive to a 320Gb or 500Gb drive. I have Windows 7 for work and Ubuntu for playing at the moment and how did you provide a SWAP area?

Thanks,

Dougal.