On 5 May 2014 15:27, Andy Random <andy.ran...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've used Clonezilla before to do this kind of thing on a desktop where I > can have both drives connected at once, but I'm not sure the best way to do > this on a laptop where only one disk can be connected at a time. >
Why can only one be connected at a time? Can you not stick the new one in an external enclosure, or some USB to SATA/IDE converter? > Any suggestions? > I used an external adapter, booted from a Live USB stick and just used gparted. It has a copy/paste feature where you just pick up partitions from one disk and paste them onto another disk. Works rather well modulo USB transfer speeds. The only gotcha I had doing this was needing to manually install grub, but that's not beyond the wit of man. Cheers, Al. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
