You can pick up a SATA/IDE to USB adapter (with power source) from Newegg for about $15. It's such a useful tool that everyone should have one. :)

Back to OP's issue -- Caleb, you can still do this with Clonezilla by saving your image to a network location, swapping the drives out, and copying the image back to the new drive.

Greg

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Michael Marley < michael@michaelmarley.[redacted] > wrote:

Laptop do use standard-size SATA and SATA power connectors, so you can hook a laptop disk straight up to a desktop PC without any adapters.  The reverse should work too, but you would need some kind of external power source as I would image most laptops would not supply enough power for a desktop disk.

Michael

On 04/17/2012 11:11 PM, Alex Jones wrote:

that's..... really clever, I don't usually clone my drives, but I'm hoping I'll remember that, I'm due to replace my laptop soon.
On that note,  do laptop drives usually use standard sata nowadays? I know you use to need a 2.5 IDE to 3.5 IDE cable.
On 4/17/2012 10:59 PM, Michael Marley wrote:

dd works for me on drives of different sizes.  You just have to resize the partition before (if the destination drive is smaller than the source) or after (if the destination drive is larger than the source).  I have copied numerous hard disks this way.  Just make sure you get the entire drive (ex. /dev/sda) and not just one partition (ex. /dev/sda1).

Michael

On 04/17/2012 09:16 PM, Warren Myers wrote:

Using dd is likely going to be a Bad Idea, unless the two drives are *identical* in size.

There are a variety of approaches listed on a similar question asked on superuser: http://superuser.com/q/11453/978 "How to move from one drive to another that's a different size?"

Then just use dd on the first 512 bytes (the MBR and partition table) like this (presuming the SSD is sda, and the hdd is sdb):

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1

That all being said, clonezilla is probably your best bet :)

-WMM

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 16:41, Caleb Wilson < ctwilso3@ncsu.[redacted] > wrote:
>
> Hooking them up at the same time isn't possible right now (laptop, no converter) and also I am more of a hardware guy, not software. So while what you said sounded like a solid fix, I would have no idea what I'd be doing lol.
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Greg Sheremeta < greg@gregsheremeta.[redacted] > wrote:
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>> Yes, Clonezilla goes onto a CD or a USB. Then it's easiest to connect both drives to the machine, boot from CD or USB into Clonezilla, and bounce the data.
>>
>> If you can't connect both drives to the same computer (maybe via a USB-to-SATA adapter or something), then Clonezilla offers a few options to bounce the image -- easiest would probably be using a network location.
>>
>> Yes, it will overwrite data on the destination drive, but I don't think it will clean wipe the entire drive. You probably don't need that anyway.
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Caleb Wilson < ctwilso3@ncsu.[redacted] > wrote:
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>>> Create an iso image onto a cd, switch out drives and from there? Will this wipe the data on the HDD previously? (don't need to keep it.)
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Greg Sheremeta < greg@gregsheremeta.[redacted] > wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Clonezilla should work for you.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Caleb Wilson < ctwilso3@ncsu.[redacted] > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Alright so here is what I am trying to do.
>>>>>
>>>>> I may not be using the correct terminology, but I need a way to 'clone' or 'copy' the OS and data from my SSD onto a HDD. I've run out of space very quickly on my SSD despite not saving data on it. So my goal is to create a clone of it, and switch out the drives so that I am literally booting the same setup. I have spent a good many hours tweaking the OS and UI and won't be able to recreate it from scratch.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, as long as I can do this, I'll be able to dual boot linux again (YAY!)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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Man, packet loss would not be nice in this situation

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Bill Farrow < bill@arrowsreach.[redacted] > wrote:

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Greg Sheremeta < greg@gregsheremeta.[redacted] > wrote:
> Back to OP's issue -- Caleb, you can still do this with Clonezilla by saving
> your image to a network location, swapping the drives out, and copying the
> image back to the new drive.

You can also use dd and netcat to do the same thing, just depends how
familiar you are with command line tools.

Basic commands:
Network Server:  nc -l 1234 > hdd_image.bin
Laptop booted with LiveCD: dd if=/dev/sda | nc 192.168.1.xxx 1234

Notes: When using dd, try setting the block size parameter to speed up
the transfers: bs=1M

The pipe-viewer tools (pv) is really useful in the these situations, I
add this in like so for a 40 gig hdd:
Network Server:  nc -l 1234 | pv -pbret -s 40G > hdd_image.bin
Laptop booted with LiveCD: dd if=/dev/sda | pv -pbret -s 40G | nc
192.168.1.xxx 1234

Bill

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On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Alex Ray < alexjray.ncsu@gmail.[redacted] > wrote:
>

> Man, packet loss would not be nice in this situation
>
>

TCP
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