If the new drive is a PATA and not SATA, yes. On May 6, 2011, at 11:38 AM, Olwe Bottorff wrote: > So something like this would allow me to clone directly onto my new drive? > > Sabrent 2.5" USB 2.0 to IDE/PATA Aluminum Hard Drive Enclosure (http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1086960&CatId=2781) > > > > --- On Fri, 5/6/11, Kathryn Hogg <kjh at flyballdogs.com> wrote: > > From: Kathryn Hogg <kjh at flyballdogs.com> > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Cloning a hard drive? > To: "TCLUG Mailing List" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Date: Friday, May 6, 2011, 9:22 AM > > Clonezilla is what I used for almost the same scenario. Except that I went to microcenter and picked up an esata/usb enclosure for like $6.99, put the new drive in it, connected to laptop, and used Clonezilla live to copy. > > Then I used gparted live to have the partition take up the whole drive, swapped the drives and rebooted from the new hard drive. > > -- Kathryn Hogg > http://womensfooty.com > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110506/5fa4d76e/attachment.html>