Thanks for all the replies. It will take a few days--the machine is not with me--,then I will give some of these suggestions a try.
-Denis On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 6:19 AM, Josiah Luscher <[email protected]> wrote: > I've had very good experiences with Redo ( http://redobackup.org ). > > Having said that I've had all sorts of problems (not related to redo) > getting partitioning tables to match exactly and 4k sector alignment, etc... > > I'm guessing your going to have to get down and dirty with fdisk / > gparted. Can you post the output of fdisk for each drive? > > On March 1, 2016 8:42:22 PM PST, Denis Heidtmann < > [email protected]> wrote: > >I am working with an old computer with custom hardware and SW than > >cannot > >be regenerated. We want to clone the HD so that if the existing one > >fails > >we have a chance of being able to continue using the system. The HD is > >1G; > >the OS is Windows 3.1; the computer is a compaq. > > > >A clone was attempted to a 20G HD, but it will not boot (I forgot the > >error > >message, but it finally said not a system disk.) And at this point I > >do > >not know what SW was used to do the cloning. > > > >My first guess is that the BIOS cannot handle the drive, even though > >the > >cloning leaves only 1G available. Is this a likely explanation? My > >second > >guess is that perhaps Compaq did something non-standard to prevent > >drives > >other than theirs from being used. (They would not be the first nor > >the > >last company to be SOBs.) > > > >I have searched for ideas, but the answers are so varied that I do not > >know > >which ones to trust. > > > >Anybody here have suggestions? What cloning SW is suggested? > > > >(If this question is unacceptable for a Linux group, I can move it to > >Talk.) > > > >-Thanks, > >-Denis > >_______________________________________________ > >PLUG mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
