[PLUG] cloning old drive

Nat Taylor bioborg at gmail.com
Wed Mar 2 05:39:44 UTC 2016


Did you try clonezilla?
On Mar 1, 2016 8:45 PM, "Denis Heidtmann" <denis.heidtmann at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am working with an old computer with custom hardware and SW than cannot
> be regenerated.  We want to clone the HD so that if the existing one fails
> we have a chance of being able to continue using the system.  The HD is 1G;
> the OS is Windows 3.1; the computer is a compaq.
>
> A clone was attempted to a 20G HD, but it will not boot (I forgot the error
> message, but it finally said not a system disk.)  And at this point I do
> not know what SW was used to do the cloning.
>
> My first guess is that the BIOS cannot  handle the drive, even though the
> cloning leaves only 1G available.  Is this a likely explanation?  My second
> guess is that perhaps Compaq did something non-standard to prevent drives
> other than theirs from being used.  (They would not be the first nor the
> last company to be SOBs.)
>
> I have searched for ideas, but the answers are so varied that I do not know
> which ones to trust.
>
> Anybody here have suggestions?  What cloning SW is suggested?
>
> (If this question is unacceptable for a Linux group, I can move it to
> Talk.)
>
> -Thanks,
> -Denis
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