Cloning Fresh Windows 7 -fsed HDD to Linux Server because having no external HDD or disks for the Backup
New lenovo x220 laptop with Windows 7 Pro with the below specs. I want to backup the disk to my server but I need to know the W7 fs, what is it?
$ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb Windows/
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sdb' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
$ sudo mount -t ntf /dev/sdb Windows/
mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntf'
$ sudo mount -t nts /dev/sdb Windows/
mount: unknown filesystem type 'nts'
$ dmesg|tail
[ 25.928832] sdb: p2 size 4779917312 extends beyond EOD, truncated
[ 25.928867] sdb: p3 start 4804509696 is beyond EOD, truncated
[ 25.929882] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 78142806 4096-byte logical blocks: (320 GB/298 GiB)
[ 25.931382] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[ 25.931387] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 25.931392] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[ 27.960028] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 174.655199] EXT3-fs (sdb): error: can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sdb.
[ 174.657319] EXT2-fs (sdb): error: can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sdb.
[ 174.660818] EXT4-fs (sdb): VFS: Can't find ext4 filesystem
Perhaps related
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/11028/backup-whole-hard-disk-linux
USB-SATA adapter -suggestion to connect the new HDD to my *ix laptop, https://superuser.com/a/387134/114739
I am using these SATA to HDD 2.5" Adapters here and here, bought two pieces but both seems to work at least automounting works with them in Ubuntu and Windows.
To Luke's comment
$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7297 cylinders, total 117231408 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000da58e
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 113055743 56526848 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 113057790 117229567 2085889 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 113057792 117229567 2085888 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Note: sector size is 4096 (not 512)
Disk /dev/sdb: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders, total 78142806 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x181d6d22
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 3074047 12288000 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb2 3074048 600563711 2389958656 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb3 600563712 625139711 98304000 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Err to Lamar's comment
root@h:/# mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb2 /Windows/
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb2': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sdb2' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
root@h:/# sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb2 /Windows/
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb2': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sdb2' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
$ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb2 /Windows
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb2': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sdb2' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
You can clone the whole drive to an image file with dd, you can even compress it to save space:
sudo dd if=/dev/sdb2 | bzip2 >~/old-disk.img.bz2
If you have pv, you can even get a progress bar:
sudo pv /dev/sdb2 | bzip2 >~/old-disk.img.bz2