I've got my drive partitioned, but I WILL read up on sfdisk. Thanks for the pointer.
On Friday 17 June 2011 12:27:15 am Andrea Conti wrote: > Hello, > > > However, the good drive started on sector 63 and the new drive want's to > > start on sector 2048. Fdisk won't let me create the partition table on > > the new drive as it is on the old drive. > > Recent versions of fdisk require partitions to begin on a 1MB boundary; > this among other things guarantees that there are no alignment issues > with 4k-sector drives. > > If you really need to use fdisk for this task you can start it in > compatibility mode (i.e. "fdisk -c=dos"). > > The recommended way of preparing the new drive, though, is to simply use > sfdisk to copy the partition table from the existing one: > > sfdisk -d <old drive> | sfdisk -L <new drive> > > andrea -- Take care and have fun, Mike Diehl.
