On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 21:44 +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Mon, 26 Nov 2012, Andrew Greig <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have 2 x identical Lenovo IdeaPads each 160Gb storage. > > Are the drives identical? If they aren't does the target of the clone > operation have a disk that is bigger than the source or which is bigger than > the used part of the source? > > If so then you don't need to worry about partition tables etc, just copy the > raw data from the disk. You can do that safely by booting both systems from > a > recovery CD or USB stick. You can even copy the raw disk if the source is > running in multi-user mode as long as there are few disk writes in progress > and you run fsck on the target afterwards. >
Thanks Russell, Matthew and Michael, It's amazing the things that can trip one up. Both machines were running WiFi networking so I decided to see how it would go with an ethernet cable connection instead. I started Clonezilla in the source machine with a USB DVD drive and the CZ disc, when it was in standby I disconnected the drive and used it to boot the target drive. With both machines on ethernet cable it is swinging along nicely. Just as well that I remembered to run them both on 240v. I am pretty sure the batteries would have expired during this process. Thanks for your support. I will report on the success of the exercise, tomorrow. Andrew Greig
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