Disk imaging beginner

Rotwang · 05-23-2009, 09:12 AM

I wasn't sure if this goes into Software or General, since it's so low-level.

I'm getting a new ssd drive for my laptop. The old drive was 16gb, the new drive is 32gb. I want to make a disk image of the old drive rather than reinstall everything on the 32. But will that work? Does the disk image include the partition table, and if so, then will it only fill 16gb of the new drive instead of 32?

(And in general, can you point me at a disk image tutorial, I've never done it before.)

thanks

Sm1ler · 05-23-2009, 09:25 AM

I would recommend Clonezilla, Its very simple and easy to use from the live iso image which you can boot from.

Download it here http://www.clonezilla.org/download/sourceforge/

Also you can always grow the partitions or LVM after the imaging process, if you have a USB caddy I would recommend a simple disk to disk clone.

Hope this helps

Sm1ler · 05-23-2009, 09:27 AM

Trust me you will not need a tutorial but I am sure you will find some if you google "clonezilla how to"

The on screen instructions are great and should give you everything you need and it will really be a walk in the park if you have ever used Norton Ghost

amani · 05-23-2009, 09:36 AM

Basically you want to make a compressed image of a partition and store it somewhere else...dvds or hdd.

Apart from clonezilla, parted magic or system rescue cd can also do it ...from GUI

Ammad · 05-23-2009, 12:51 PM

but this dont support LVM2

kstan · 05-23-2009, 02:25 PM

you can try g4l too.

If everything don't work. you can use live cd to transfer the image.