Boot a live CD with both HDDs attached, start the Partition Editor (gparted
), copy and paste the partitions from one drive to the other:
- In the top right corner select your old hard disk.
Select a partition you want to copy (right-click → "Copy"):
In the top right corner select your new hard disk.
Paste the copied partition into unallocated space (right-click → "Paste"):
Resize if you want (right-click on the partition → "Resize/Move")
This will keep the unique identifiers of the partitions, so you shouldn't need to adjust anything after cloning the drive.
The final part is to re-install GRUB:
- Note the root partition name of your new HDD (for example /dev/sdb1).
Open a gnome-terminal and run (sorry, I don't know a GUI way to do it, but it's just a couple of commands):
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sdb
sudo umount /mnt
Make sure you use the disk name at the end of point 2!
That's it, reboot with only your new HDD and you should be fine.
Some advise: Do backups first! Only run one operation at a time and not all at once (so: copy → (resize) → copy → ...).