How do I move ubuntu 11.04 from disk 1 to disk 2

Does this help at all?
http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/8225-clone-your-ubuntu-installation-onto-a-new-hard-disk

I believe the disk drives are two drives in one case.

Anyway, I want to move Ubuntu from disk 1 to disk 2 and then install windows 7 on disk 1.

HP wants me to do this for warranty issues....

How did you cloned disk ?
How did you installed again Grub2 ?

You should:
  1-installed Windows on first disk (new one). Windows installer will put its own bootloader
  2-switch both disk making Ubuntu first and Windows second.
  3-reinstall Grub2 from CD. Grub2 will be put on first disk. During installation Windows will be detected and a boot menu will be made with both Ubuntu and Windows. And Windows disk will be UNTOUCHED.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Reinstalling%20GRUB2

Don't hesitate to request more data.

I cannot switch disks.

I cannot install windows without first getting ubuntu on the second disk

How did you cloned disk ?
How did you installed again Grub2 ?

I cloned the disk with clonezilla.

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
sudo grub-install --root=/mnt /dev/sdb

On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 18:46 +0000, delance wrote:

I decided to re-install Ubuntu 11.04 on sdb. I saved some files
from /usr/local and home. I saved the package list with dpkg-query. I
chose to import my account from sda

Next, I plan to divide sda into 200G for Windows 7 and 400G for FreeBSD.

I will install windows on the first partition, as is is limited to...
Then, I will boot the DVD and reinstall grub.

Lastly, I will use dpkg to install the packages I initially had.

I will post the results.

I need to figure out the moving from one disk to another problem. I
believe this is at least the third time I have faced it... I hate
windows but for some reason always have to reinstall it!!!! Maybe I
should hate the computer manufacturers, too?

tomdean

To find out if bios is what is causing heat problem, have you considered, bios update without DOS.
http://www.mahalo.com/answers/anyone-know-how-to-get-a-bios-update-for-my-motherboard-if-im-running-ubuntu
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=318789
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa/message/20689
I have not tried this, but seems to have a lot written about it. This will not help warranty problem. It would show if bios update will fix heat problem, without installing Windows.

I installed ubuntu 11.04 on sdb and copied the files I needed to save from sda to sdb
I installed windows 7 on sda (disk0)
I booted the ubuntu 11.04 DVD

    sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
    sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/ /dev/sdb
    If that returns any errors run:
    sudo grub-install --recheck --root-directory=/mnt/ /dev/sdb

Rebooting, the system went straight to windows. I managed to screw up the windows installation on sda. Now, nothing will boot.

I used the windows DVD to restore the MBR.

Now, I have
  windows 7 on disk 0
  ubuntu 11.04 on disk 1 (sdb)

I have reinstalled grub on sdb. But, that does not change the MBR or windows boot.

I would like to have grub on sda to boot
    windows from disk0 part 2
    freebsd from disk 0 part 3
    Ubuntu from disk 1 part 1 (sdb1)

So far, I have not found a way to do this.

Ok, I finally managed it. The laptop really has two disk drives! toshiba MK6461GS

  installed Ubuntu 11.04 on sdb
  installed windows 7 on disk 0, leaving half for a future FreeBSD install

  booted windows 7
  downloaded and installed easyBCD. There is a free version.
  In easyBCD, add a new entry, linux and select grub 2
      I named it 'Ubuntu 11.04' But, that does not matter.

All done.

Thanks for all the help.

tomdean