[ale] Cloning laptop drive didn't work

[Bob Toxen]

Is the failing disk layed out as non-cylinders & sectors, i.e., serial or whatever
they call it?  If not then that could be the problem.

An alternative is to make the partition table on the SSD and dd individual
partitions.

This isn't my strong suit so YMMV.

Bob

On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 12:42:57AM -0700, Alex Carver via Ale wrote:
> I've cloned drives before on other laptops to replace an older or failing
> drive and had no issues but this time I'm not getting a fully working drive.
> 
> The laptop is an old 32-bit Toshiba with a 256 GB IDE drive. I purchased and
> IDE to mSATA adapter board and a 512 GB mSATA SSD. I've done this exact swap
> before on a different laptop that ran Windows and everything was fine. The
> Toshiba has Debian Bookworm installed on it.
> 
> I made an image of the full drive and then dd'ed it to the SSD. Plugged it
> into the Toshiba and got the GRUB menu and the initramfs loaded. But then it
> just had all kinds of ATA timeouts and stopped in its tracks. I tried
> disabling ACPI and that didn't help.
> 
> If I plug the full stack of IDE adapter and SSD into a USB to IDE adapter
> and plug that into another computer I can mount the SSD and see all the
> files, no problem.
> 
> I'm not sure what the issue is at this point because everything seems to be
> in place. Thoughts?
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