[PLUG] cloning old drive

[Denis Heidtmann]

Thanks for all the replies.  It will take a few days--the machine is not
with me--,then I will give some of these suggestions a try.

-Denis

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 6:19 AM, Josiah Luscher <sy at josiahluscher.com> wrote:

> I've had very good experiences with Redo ( http://redobackup.org ).
>
> Having said that I've had all sorts of problems (not related to redo)
> getting partitioning tables to match exactly and 4k sector alignment, etc...
>
> I'm guessing your going to have to get down and dirty with fdisk /
> gparted.  Can you post the output of fdisk for each drive?
>
> On March 1, 2016 8:42:22 PM PST, 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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