Ubuntu Installation :: Transferring System To Another HDD?
May 2, 2011
I have a question regarding the migration of the system to a new HDD. I currently have an 80GB HDD that has Windows 7 x64 installed and another 80GB HDD that has Ubuntu 11.04 x64 installed. The boot loader uses Grub2. I want to migrate the 80GB disk that hosts Win7 to a new 500GB HDD using Acronis True Image Home 2011 and then migrate the other 80GB disk that hosts Ubuntu to a new 800GB HDD following the steps described in the following page:
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Is this going to work or everything will be messed up with Grub2?
i have one laptop with ubuntu on it but no internet connection due to the loss of my gnome-panel package, and another with windows on it that has an internet connection, the easiest way to connect to the internet on ubuntu is through the gnome panel and so i think the best way around my problem would be to somehow transfer the gnome-panel package from the windows computer via usb harddrive, to ubuntu, is there a way in which i can install the gnome-panel package and transfer it, or other ideas around my problem?
I guess I'll be asking the impossible... Is it possible to EASILY move my Ubuntu set up from one disk (smallish) to a bigger one, so that I can install Win7 as well on that bigger disk drive? I am not too keen on reinstalling ubuntu because then I will lose all those other ubuntu programs that I have installed.
I bought a 30 GB SSD and I need to install Ubuntu on it. I currently have a 1500 GB harddrive, on it my current 60gb ubuntu partition and the rest is Windows 7.Out of the 60 GB for ubuntu I have used 9 GB, so I want to transfer that 9GB to the SSD to preserve all my settings. Then I want to format the original 60GB to something else, probably NTFS since both linux and windows can read it.I tried sbackup but that creates a back up on my current drive, not what I intended. If there is a gui program that will work that would be great, if not I'll still give whatever suggested a shot.
Looks like I finally have the time to install Squeeze in the next few days. I have the DVDs here and ready to go! Once I finish housekeeping and do multiple backups, I'll be ready to have a go at this I would like to transfer the settings stored in /home from Hardy to Squeeze. Can I just copy and paste? Or will the difference between the two make that risky (or impossible). I am especially concerned about .gnome and .gnome2. I really don't want to have to reconfigure everything from scratch but I also don't want the file transfer to break things.
I would also like some advice about the install. It would be safest to unplug the three active drives, hook up the new 1TB and install / and /home partitions without the possibility of disaster. However, I eventually want to dual boot with the Hardy install. When I reconnect the Hardy disk, will Squeeze find Hardy if I sudo update-grub? Hardy is in ext3 and boots with Grub legacy. Do I need an MBR or is it OK to just boot from Squeeze's /.
I've resolved to move onto Ubuntu, but I haven't done so quite yet. One question that sprang to mind was the transferral of files from the Windows OS to the Linux OS on the same machine, if it's possible. I'm thinking something like the dual partition, though I suppose Copy/paste wouldn't work.
Another possible solution was using dual partition and then Windows SCP, but everything I've read on the topic indicates that SCP works by finding the (different) host address of the computer; thus it would read my machine as one, even if I'm running Ubuntu on it as well.
how to transfer these friggin' things.
Part of the reason for my query is that I am quite strapped financially and am unable to backup my files on an internet service or on discs.
I would like to transfer a massive amount of data between my laptops simultaneously. Is there a way to attach a cable via one flash port on one laptop to another and transfer like that?
OK I have a problem, well I think it's just ubuntu because this has done this in 9.04 and 10.04 and still in 10.10. When I go to drag and drop the music files from iPhone to my music folder, the files transfer, but they don't transfer with the name of the song. They get transferred with a name of 4 digits like this "BVFG.MP3" (example).
I am not going to go through all 1,200 of my songs and rename them one by one that's ridiculous.
Here's a screen shot. That is actually More by Usher, but it doesn't say Usher obviously.
I want to convert my wife's computer from MS XP 2003 to Ubuntu 10.10. I have saved "My Documents" to an external hard drive. How will I go about transferring these files to Ubuntu? Do I just pick individual files and go to "Save As"? Can I just transfer them en mass?
I get an error message every time I want to save a background to my usr.share...backgrounds folder. Code:Error opening file '/usr/share/backgrounds/aurora2.1.jpg': Permission denied.Is there any way I can get permission to transfer the file to this folder? I would like to have some of my own pictures in this folder so I can use them for login screen backgrounds.
I have a Canon Powershot A470 digital camera and can't get to transfer the pictures from it on Ubuntu 10.04. When I had Ubuntu 9.04 I imported pictures from the same camera without any problems. I considered that the problem could be the camera itself or the USB cable, but I have just accessed my pictures from that camera using Windows Vista.
Basically, what I have tried is 1) connecting the USB cable to the camera and the computer; 2) set the command button to the playback position; 3) turn on the camera. Using Windows Vista, this series of procedures opens the camera folder (as a flash drive) on Windows Explorer and this is what used to happen when I was using Ubuntu 9.04. I expected this to happen using the Lucid Lynx, but I didn't get even close. I even opened the Home Folder to see if something new showed up there when I hooked up the camera and turned it on.
Since I'm new with Ubuntu (especially the Lucid Lynx), I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I have read that sometimes we have to mount devices in order to get them to communicate with the computer. Is this one of those cases? If so, how do I do it? Does anyone else have the same model of digital camera? How do you guys transfer the pictures to your Ubuntu-based system?
I installed Ubuntu a few days ago from WUBI, but now I want to make it take the whole partition and I don't want to lose any files and software I have downloaded (Synaptec/Software Manager ) How can I do that ?
I am about to go on a last minute trip abroad and I need to bring a laptop with me so Im getting a lend of my mothers one. It has windows 7 and I will be sticking ubuntu on it. The problem is there are alot of programs/packages that I need and I wont have time to download them all. So is it possible to transfer the packages/programs I need from my PC to this laptop?
when I try to transfer files between flash drives, it starts to copy normally and then after few seconds it starts to lag. Transfer rate drops with each second by 0.2 MB down until 5 MB/s where it completely hangs. This happens to every single flash drive I put in and this is annoying because I have external HardDrive connected over USB port and I keep all my data in there, so when I try to transfer the files from the hard drive to the flash drive - it lags and hangs. Same thing if I want to copy from internal harddrive to flash drive. Although everything is fine when I copy from the flash drive to the internal harddrive and everything is fine when flash drive or the external harddrive is alone (no other flash drives or something is connected).
I am also using Ubuntu 10.04. I have tried transfering files on my netbook running ubuntu, because I thought that it might be a USB port issue but the same thing happened on the netbook too...
I suffered a permanent crash of WinXP. It won't boot and there's an incomprehensible error message.Anyway, I was able to recover almost all my data and move it over to Ubuntu 10.4 on the same computer. What I could not recover was my Outlook Address Book. I know it is funky to transfer it from one Windows email client to another, but transferring it across OS's seemed almost impossible, especially since I don't have Outlook's Export feature available. Even Google and other webmails needed to have those Outlook address files converted before they could use them.
What would be the plan of least resistance here for a Total Noob? Can I, should I, and how do I transfer the address book to a different computer with Outlook for export before transferring it back on the Linux side?
I'm new to android app development (but not to java) and I want to transfer apps I create on ubuntu to my HTC Incredible mobile phone. My computer's a desktop, so I don't have anything fancy like a bluetooth (unless you recommend I buy a USB one for this). What is the best way to transfer apps to my droid?
I tried using USB, but for some reason neither Ubuntu nor my droid sees the other. It doesn't even charge when I connect it via USB.
The HDD in my HTPC is giving off a really annoying grinding sound, and we all know what that means.Luckily, my movies, songs, games, etc. are stored on a brand new 400 Gig external drive- the install is all that's on the failing one. I've got about a half dozen IDE drives big enough for a base install, and at least half of those *aren't* failing, I just don't know what to do. Do I just create the ext and swap partitions then copy/paste the file system, or what?
I was dual booting Ubuntu 8.10 and Windows Vista on a Acer Aspire 5920. My laptop went for service and the company said they will give me a fresh laptop instead of the one I am using now for they cannot set it right.
When I plugged in my hard disk through an external cable onto a windows machine it detected only the data present (which is almost negligible in my case) in the vista partition. I would like to transfer all the data I have from hard disk at least the one in the Ubuntu 8.10 to my new laptop on which I plan to run Ubuntu. Can someone guide me on how to go about doing it? Also is it possible to transfer all the installed softwares so that they start running in the new laptop without any extra effort?
I am not sure where to post this so i figure that general help is as good as any. I have just bought my self a 32 gb micro sd card and I want to transfur all my old stuff (apps, contacts, music) off my existing card, how do I do this?
I've tried FXP and rsync, none worked and I can't find much info on how to get them working, just alot of google results with people in the same situation as me!
I want to transfer files from 1 remote server to another remote server... a fairly easy task in which I'm sure there's an easy solution, I just can't find it.
I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Rhythmbox recognizes my ipod just fine.. and i have no problem transferring mp3s over to the ipod. but when I unplug the nano from the computer it says I have 0 files under music.. yet 4.5GB are missing out of the 8GB. what in the world?? When I double click the IPOD on my desktop it shows all the mp3s too, but when I unplug it's like it's an empty ipod like nothing transferred, but yet it says synchronizing....
I am looking to set up a home network server on an old PC. I want to be able to access files on the network hard drive in the PC, stream video or music from the "server", and use the computer as a regular desktop connected to TV as a monitor. I tried setting up an FTP server and that worked for transferring files but failed to get a good connection for streaming or fast transfers.
Was less then 1MB a second. I tried setting up a shared folder but ran into several permission errors between the host PC and the laptop that that connected to the shared folder. which way to go with this to get what I want out of it. I know if can be done just not sure how to do it.
Method of automatic backup from my hard drive to a usb drive when plugged in.
Basically I'll be constantly putting files in /home/downloads and I want it so when I plug in a NTFS usb drive it will automatically Cut(not copy) all the contents of that folder including other folders to my usb drive. Is there any well known programs that can do this?
I would prefer something that is in the repositories that is easily configurable via command line rather than some complicated script.
I cant get my iphone to work with Ubuntu beyond transferring pictures. I have tried ifuse, isky, gtkpod etc. nothing seems to work, and many of the times I run into errors messages when following the tutorials. Ubuntu 64 bit 9.04 acer aspire 8730
I've tried for some time now to get my Zen 16GB working properly with Ubuntu 10.04. I've tried Rhythmbox and this works for mp3s but album art is not transferring. I have latest 0.13 Rhythmbox and now at leat the mp3's go in directories under Music, but the .alb file is put a root and not ar is displayed.
I have tried gnomad2 and the latest (2.9.4?) crashes with 10.04 when reading the Zen. I can't drag and drop in nautilus and the it is connected as gphoto and the tags are not copied over. So, for all you Zen users.. how are you trandfering mp3's (with album art!) over to your Zen's?
The computer and phone are paired, and transfer starts, but after 4096 bytes it says:Transfer finished with an error: Error sending object. I'm running 64-bit Lucid and Maemo 5 on the phone. Here are some of the things I've tried, following the docs, and the errors I get:
Code: ~$hcitool info 3D:F7:2A:60:7A:40 Requesting information ...
I'm a new Linux user and i've only dabbled in terminal, but it's been serving me well. Unfortunately when i added my hotmail address to evolution it deleted all the emails from the actual hotmail website and saved them somewhere to my hard drive.
At the time i didn't care but know i've got a new laptop and i'm getting rid of the old one(with the emails on it).
So my question is, how can i transfer the emails to my new laptop or back to hotmail? The new laptop has windows 7 and i was planning on putting ubuntu on one of these days.
Every time I attempt to transfer over a large file (4 GB) via any protocol, my server restarts. On the rare occasion that it doesn't restart, it spits out a few error messages saying "local_softirq_pending 08" and then promptly freezes. Small files transfer fine.
Relevant information:
Ubuntu server 10.10 Four hard drives in RAID 5 configuration CPU/HD temperatures are within normal range
I've got a quadcore PC, 2gb ram pc running ubuntu 11.04 with samba set up on a shared folder - the plan is to share files and media between myself and my housemates. However, I do not have the router attached by ethernet, I am connecting to the router (in another room) by a d-link wireless dongle.
I can access the share without real issue from my windows laptop and other computers in the house share I'm part of, and I can happily transfer a text file here and there, but it seems to be anything over 20mb will not go. All the files I am trying to transfer are >1gb and it's driving me mad.
After some decent transfer rates of around 1mb per second it just freezes up. The screen attached to the actual server goes blank and the host becomes unreachable by ping.I'll be happy to provide any command results or anything to get this working. any assistance would be welcome!
