[TriLUG] New disk woes ( 9th )

[William Sutton via TriLUG]

Before the more intelligent minds than mine get involved, I'm going to ask 
the obvious stupid question:  If you put your old disk back in the G7, 
will it still boot?

William Sutton

On Tue, 9 Aug 2022, Brian McCullough via TriLUG wrote:

>
> I hope that I get the help that this group is known for, this time.
>
>
> I bought a new Crucial SSD for my HP Pavilion G7 laptop that I use for
> most of my work, and proceeded to replace the existing spinning 1 TB
> drive.  They are both SATA and of the same form factor, so I expected
> there not to be any problems.
>
> I was wrong.
>
>
> I started by removing the original drive and taking both to a second
> machine and started rsyincing the LVM partitions from the old to the
> new.
>
> That seemed to work properly.  I knew that the new drive was not
> bootable, so prepred a Debian Netinst memory stick.
>
> I put it in the G7 and could not seem to make it install to the new
> drive.
>
> I then took both parts to the machine where I did the rsync and
> proceeded to run the Debian Netinst to prepare the new disk as a new
> installable drive.  I made sure that I was choosing the correct
> partitions on the new drive when running the partitioner during the
> install.
>
> Debian claimed that the installation was successful.
>
> I took the drice to the G7, and it won't boot.
>
> I have a Ubuntu live CD ( DVD ), and a couple of different USB sticks,
> and they all seem to work in that machine.
>
>
> Any suggested tools to get me working again?
>
>
> Help Please?
>
>
>
> Thank you,
> Brian
>
>
>
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