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Clone and backup failure to SSD

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Help please!

Been trying to clone my 320GB HDD with Dual boot Win 7 / Linux Mint to a Crucial 250GB SSD using TI 2019.. and failing. A lot. The actual space used on the HDD is significantly less than 250GB This is in a refurbed Dell Optiplex 380 (BIOS)

Read lots on this in forums and the TI documentation instructions, some of which is conflicting and quite a bit confusing (how many acronyms?!), most may or may not apply to TI 2019.

In the end I followed the suggested route given here, of making a USB Bootable version of TI ( the Linux version), then making a full disk backup of the disk onto an external HDD, swapping out the 320GB drive for the SSD and recovering to the SSD. I did this twice and verified both times - got the following errors (pics) both times.

I then tried a clone with the SDD plugged into the USB port - same errors at the end but even longer to get them! I did get an obscure warning about needing a  GRUB floppy disk (pic) but need it not "FAIL" first. Also pic of disc from Mint.

I have just reduced the size of the partitions on the 320GB HDD so they are smaller than 250GB but don't know if that will help (and it's another 3 hrs to find out!)

Grateful for any help.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Paul, welcome to these public user forums.

Sorry but ATI is not very good at handling EXT4 partitions in this type of scenario where any form of resize will be needed!

Just went through a similar situation with an old 32-bit notebook where I wanted to clone a 250GB HDD drive to a 250GB SSD drive but ATI told me effectively the same because this was a Xubuntu EXT4 drive.

The answer for me was to download a copy of Clonezilla and write this to a USB stick using Rufus, then use that tool to clone the drive.  The SSD is now booting just fine into Xubuntu!

The alternative would be to manually resize your EXT4 large partition then retry.

Thanks for the advice Steve.

Did as you suggested and I resized the data partitions and a windows data partition I had (as i already have Gparted on a USB),  so all they all added up to 245GB, I also removed the Linux swap partition (going to use "Swapspace" instead) as I thought that might be the problem, did a TI back up and restore and success!!

All booting and running OK on the SSD so thanks again:)

 

Paul, great that all is done and working, thanks for the feedback.