How to clone my HDD to SSD

Ruschi · 10. Dezember 2016

Hi guys.. I use a HDD as my system disc. Now i want to use a SSD instead.
My HDD is 150GB an my SSD is 120GB.
How can I clone it.. On my laptop i usw Linux.

Thanks in advance.

ryecoaaron · 10. Dezember 2016

You can try clonezilla with the icds option. Otherwise, shrink the hard drive partition size (gparted) so it would fit on the ssd.

Ruschi · 14. Januar 2017

I tried this but i ran in errors.. I shrinked the partition but if i try to Boot from the old HDD now i get "cannot get C/H/S vallues"
Lucky that I made an image with dd .. I hope I can copy it back. I also made a backup with the OMV backup tool. How could be a scenario if I Start a New Installation with my SSD. Can I then copy everything back to my SSD?!

ryecoaaron · 14. Januar 2017

Zitat von Ruschi

Can I then copy everything back to my SSD?!

Yes but you would have to change the UUID in /etc/fstab.

Ruschi · 14. Januar 2017

So I should be able to try a New Installation On my SSD and then i can copy back my old files within my config? I used pooling with mergerfs and so on.

Ruschi · 16. Januar 2017

update: but still on the old HDD..

I did following steps. everything running on ubuntu LIVE system.

-shrinked my Partition on HDD to fit the SSD using gparted.
-created new ext4 partition on my SSD.
-rsync both drives.
-copied the new UUID in /etc/fstab
-grub2 update

If I boot from my SSD now, I still get the error "cannot get C/S/H values".

I googled the C/S/H error but I still don´t find a solution for it.
Are there other ways to get my data from the old HDD?

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