Transfer F7 partition to a new hard disk

[Karl Larsen]

Jonathan Dieter wrote:
> 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
>   
    Also I have been working with 2 hard drives and getting all versions 
known of Grub errors. I think you need to do what I did and Jonathan 
asked you to do. Remove the original hard drive. All you need to do is 
pull the plugs off that hard drive. I think that will fix your problem.

Karl


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