Clonezilla works great. Plug both in and do a device to device clone.
Good to hear and you will be glad you made the change!
I just tried to clone my OVM boot disk to a larger disk (Clonezilla) and the clone grub section is failing leaving the disk unbootable.
Am I doing something obviously wrong?
Used this tutorial : http://clonezilla.org/show-liv…doc/03_Disk_to_disk_clone
Thanks
Hopefully I'm not stating the obvious, but did you make sure to answer "Yes" where it asked you if you wanted to clone the boot loader?
Yes, I did. During that part of the process I get a grub failed message on the screen.
I am cloning on a 32 bit machine while the disk I am cloning is from a 64 bit machine. I hope that is not an issue.
The error is:
error: hd1 appears to contain a ufs2 file system which isn't know to reserve space for DOS-style boot. Installing GRUB there could result in FILESYSTEM DESTRUCTION if valuable data is overwritten by grub-setup (--skip-fs-probe disables this check, use at your own risk).
Failed to install GRUB!!!
I have used the 32 bit Clonezilla many times. So, that shouldn't be the issue. What is the entire grub fail error?
updated prev post with the grub error
What was on the usb hard drive previously?
I plugged in the source and target drive to sata ports. When I connected the target drive via USB Clonezilla couldn't find it.
Previously the target drive had Windows 7. I removed all the partitions before I started using EaseUS Partition Master which I thought would leave it clean.
A lot of them may not create a new MSDOS partition table. I would boot from Parted Magic, start the Partition Editor, go to Device -> Partition Table and click Apply. This will create a msdos partition table which should allow grub to install.
Thanks I will give that a try when I get home from work.
I used Parted Magic as you suggested unfortunately grub still failed to install. Same error as before.
Any more suggestions?
This may sound like a lot of work but it is the only answer for a Linux newb 
Unplug the old usb stick. Plug in new drive and install OMV on it. Make sure it boots but don't set it up. Then boot clonezilla with both drives plugged in. Instead of cloning the whole disk, just clone the first partition.
I will give it a go.
I installed OMV on the target drive and it was bootable.
Using Clonezilla I did a partition to partition as you suggested.
The clone process succeeded but the disk wouldn't boot.
It had a message like Put in a proper boot disk and reboot
BTW I am cloning from a SSD to a SATA drive if that makes any difference
Finally got it to work.
I installed OMV to my target disk again.
Using Clonezilla I did a partition to partition clone.
The tutorial I have been following had me using the -k1 option in Expert mode.
This time I left it as the default -k and I now have a bootable larger drive.
Thanks for all your help!!
What a pain but good to hear
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