<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span><br></span></div><div></div><div> Going from mbr to gpt was my major concern.</div><div>The machine does have a 4tb drive in it now (testing to see if it worked and formated)...</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> grlug@grlug.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, June 10, 2013 1:30 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [GRLUG] 2tb to 4tb drive clone<br> </font> </div> <div
class="y_msg_container"><br>On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 12:49 -0400, Kyle wrote:<br>> On 06/10/2013 12:34 PM, Patrick Goupell wrote<br>> > On 06/10/2013 12:13 PM, Joseph McLaughlin wrote: <br>> > > Is there a way to clone a 2tb drive to a 4tb drive that is used in the boot?<br>> > > If I have to do a re install - is there a check list I should follow?<br>> > You could also use clonezilla (www.clonezilla.org).<br>> There are a couple assumptions in that, though: <br><br>Yep.<br><br>> partitioning type of the old drive (MBR vs. GPT), and whether your<br>> computer supports 4TB drives (not always a safe assumption, as I've<br>> found through experience).<br><br>Yep.<br><br>> If you're on MBR on the old drive you may not be able to use that<br>> strategy.<br><br>A "clone" might still 'work', but leave you with unextendable<br>partitions and 2TB of unusable space.<br><br>--<br>Adam Tauno Williams
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