On Tue, 10 May 2016 22:00:26 +0100 Adam Bower adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 06:32:28PM +0100, Chris Walker wrote:
<sigh> Why is that when you want to register the new SSD on the Sandisk site, it asks for a serial number which is on the underside of the disc which is now securely bolted in and with the covers on the machine? :-(
You can usually pull the serial number for a drive from within linux using either hdparm or smartctl (you may need to install the smartmontools),
example:
sudo smartctl -i /dev/sda
Unfortunately, linux isn't yet installed on that machine and appears to be having problems doing so. It complains about miscalculation on the size of the Windows partition. As I don't want a /home partition on there, I thought I would create the partitions manually but even doing that it fails.
My next thought is to check the validity of the various partitions when I copied them over from the smaller SSD.