I just bought an ASUS S400CA, with a 500GB 5400rpm drive and a 24GB SSD for booting.
It appears to me that the HDD is the boot drive, so the 24GB on-board SSD should not be an issue. Correct me if I am wrong.
The HDD system was partitioned approximately like this...
1) 100MB (Windows use)
2) 300MB (Windows use)
3) 128MB (hidden, windows)
4) 128GB (C: Drive, system volume)
5) 250GB (D: Drive, empty)
6) 20GB (Recovery)
I have a spare 128GB SSD, and so I did the following:
1) Created a recovery thumb drive for the laptop. Windows gave me the option to delete the last, 20GB portion, and I did.
2) Deleted the D: partition
3) Shrank the C: partittion to approx 80GB using Disk Management
I then used linux gdisk to copy the partition table of the HDD to the SSD, then used clonezilla to duplicate the 4 remaining partitions.
The laptop did not even recognize the drive for booting. Not that it could not find the boot partittion, the BIOS literally did not detect the drive. Which is STRANGE, because it obviously detected the drive when I loaded linux from a USB volume and wrote to it.
I am now running the dd tool to clone the drive, and I'll see how that works. But am I missing something? Do I have to do something special to accomplish this?
Thanks!
It appears to me that the HDD is the boot drive, so the 24GB on-board SSD should not be an issue. Correct me if I am wrong.
The HDD system was partitioned approximately like this...
1) 100MB (Windows use)
2) 300MB (Windows use)
3) 128MB (hidden, windows)
4) 128GB (C: Drive, system volume)
5) 250GB (D: Drive, empty)
6) 20GB (Recovery)
I have a spare 128GB SSD, and so I did the following:
1) Created a recovery thumb drive for the laptop. Windows gave me the option to delete the last, 20GB portion, and I did.
2) Deleted the D: partition
3) Shrank the C: partittion to approx 80GB using Disk Management
I then used linux gdisk to copy the partition table of the HDD to the SSD, then used clonezilla to duplicate the 4 remaining partitions.
The laptop did not even recognize the drive for booting. Not that it could not find the boot partittion, the BIOS literally did not detect the drive. Which is STRANGE, because it obviously detected the drive when I loaded linux from a USB volume and wrote to it.
I am now running the dd tool to clone the drive, and I'll see how that works. But am I missing something? Do I have to do something special to accomplish this?
Thanks!
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Win8