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I want to clone my hd to another bigger, faster drive. I have a
160GB, 5400rpm sata drive in my toshiba laptop and I bought a 320GB,
7200rpm drive. I have cloned an old Powerbook IDE drive and had no
issues. However, I found this site:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.arsgeek.com/2008/01/22/how-to-clone-your-bootable-ubuntu-install-to-another-drive/">http://www.arsgeek.com/2008/01/22/how-to-clone-your-bootable-ubuntu-install-to-another-drive/</a>
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that says I need to clone to an exact same size partiotion. I didn't
do that a few years back with the IDE drive as I recall. Is this
really necessary?<br>
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"You’ll also want to either be cloning your hard drive to one of the
exact same size, or if you have a larger disk, make a partition of
the same size on it and clone to that. Then, use an Ubuntu liveCD to
change the partition size (<em>System-> Administration->
Partition Editor</em>). Lastly, you’ll need a <a
href="http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu" target="_blank">LiveCD</a>."<br>
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The article also says that I need to install grub after the cloning
but it seems that the grub install I have would be cloned too, no?<br>
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Many thanks and here's hope for a great '11!!<br>
<br>
Brian<br>
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