[mythtv-users] impending failure

[Steve Greene]

Clonezilla will definitely copy the UUID. You will need the same size or
larger drive. If you upsize partitions, you may need to manually partition
the new drive and tell Clonezilla to NOT copy or resize partitions. If you
have a Windows boot volume on the same drive, prepare for fun and games
getting Windows to boot again.

Good luck!

Steve

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On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 6:13 PM Allen Edwards <allen.p.edwards at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 3:06 PM Curtis Gedak <gedakc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> GParted copies partitions and the data within.  It does not copy boot
>> records from unallocated space, or the initial boot code contained
>> within the partition table.
>>
>> All that should be needed is to restore the GRUB boot_loader.  You can
>> do this by booting from media containing the distro you are running
>> (Mythbuntu?) and then running the appropriate commands to restore the
>> ability to boot.
>>
>> See GParted - Fixing Operating System Boot Problems
>>
>> https://gparted.org/display-doc.php?name=help-manual#gparted-fix-operating-system-boot-problems
>>
>> 'Hope that helps.
>>
>> Curtis
>>
>> On 2018-10-23 2:39 p.m., Daryl McDonald wrote:
>> > Greetings mythizens, I got a message that a storage drive was about to
>> > fail. I just received the replacement, used gparted to copy and paste
>> from
>> > the failing drive to the new one, and the box won't boot? I thought that
>> > gparted cloned everything including UUID and Labels. Any suggestions?
>>
>>
> Sounds like the say to go but if you need to start over, you might look at
> Clonezilla.  I just did a disk and it did the boot and expanded the drive
> proportionally all in one run.  I am about to use it again on another
> system.  It takes a long time, hours, so if you can just make your disk
> bootable, that is the way to go.
>
> Allen
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