Used Easeus Disk Copy and now both drives don't boot.

[Quazeye]

I wanted to copy my boot drive to a bigger drive so I used Easeus Disk Copy. The copy said it worked fine. I then unplugged the old drive and plugged in the new drive and it looked like it was booting (the fedora icon was about 3/4 full) then it said there was an error and to enter the root password to enter the recovery console. I did that and ran fsck and it said it was unable to resolve UUID=some long number. I thought that I was safe because I still have my original drive. I take out the new drive and put the old one back and try to boot but now the original drive has exactly the same error! This drive was working fine before I did the copy. Is there a way to fix this? I will re-install Amahi if I have to but I just spent days copying all my shared files over to my shares and I don't want to have to do this again if I don't have to. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Quaz

[gboudreau]

What you need to do is:
- On boot, enter the root password when asked to.
- Remount / to be writable:

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mount -o remount,rw /

- Look for your boot partition:

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fdisk -l

It should be /dev/sda1, but can be something else. Find the partition that has a * in the 'boot' column.
Example:

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Disk /dev/sda: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x20a0c72d Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 2612 20980858+ 83 Linux /dev/sda2 2613 243201 1932531142+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5 2613 2855 1951866 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 2856 243201 1930579213+ 83 Linux

- Find the UUID of that partition:

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ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid | grep sda1

Example:

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[gb@hda ~]$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid | grep sda1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-07-04 10:04 4245159c-83c1-4db5-a68e-6c1ffd589bfe -> ../../sda1

- Edit /etc/fstab (using nano, or vi), and change the UUID of the / partition to the UUID you just found above.
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UUID=4245159c-83c1-4db5-a68e-6c1ffd589bfe / ext4 defaults 1 1

- Reboot

[Quazeye]

Thanks! This worked.

Quaz