Transfer F7 partition to a new hard disk
Jonathan Dieter
jdieter at gmail.com
Sat Oct 20 17:35:09 UTC 2007
On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 18:22 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> Thanks to all. I have followed Jonathan's method, but I did not remove
> the old disk. However, I did increase the priority of the new disk as
> the first one. However, I get the following:
>
> # /sbin/fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500106780160 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Disk /dev/sda doesn't contain a valid partition table
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 81.9 GB, 81963220480 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sdb1 * 1 9965 80040960 7 HPFS/NTFS
>
> Disk /dev/sdc: 120.0 GB, 120033041920 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sdc1 1 3187 25597952 6 FAT16
> /dev/sdc2 3188 3200 104422+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sdc3 3201 14593 91514272+ 8e Linux LVM
>
> Disk /dev/sdd: 160.0 GB, 160040803840 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sdd1 * 1 10000 80324968+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sdd2 10001 19457 75963352+ 8e Linux LVM
> #
>
> The new disk is /dev/sda. It is rather strange that it says:
>
> "Disk /dev/sda doesn't contain a valid partition table"
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Paul
Which one was your source drive? The partition table should have been
copied over from it to the destination drive along with everything else.
Jonathan
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