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[Xenophile]

I remember seeing a good post about it a while back, but I can't seem to find it.

I'm not having a problem now, but I'd like to have a clone ready to go if the original should get flaky, or if I should need extra storage space for samples, backing tracks etc.

The new SSD will be much larger than the original, and if I understand correctly, I should (must?) create additional partitions/volumes on the new drive. I have a Windows 10 PC as well as a 2021 M1 MacBook Pro that I can use to clone the drive. If I understand correctly, if I clone the drive there should be no need to reinstall the Kronos OS from DVD and/or re-activate my purchased sound libraries.

Can someone kindly point me to a tutorial or instructions for cloning an original Kronos 2 SDD to a larger, new SSD? I imagine it could be done with MacOS' or Windows' built-in disk management utilities, but might be easier with some 3rd-party software.

Thanks!

[Xenophile]

Well, here's 11 pages of advice for the curious.
http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=68128&highlight=clone+ssd

And more:
http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=122927&highlight=clone+ssd

[KK]

Follow Purgatory's method below and ignore the rest. Worked like a charm for me back then and still zero problem. Avoid procedures that need to reauthorize anything.

http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=118683

[Xenophile]

[Xenophile]

After considering the stories about problems re-installing the Kronos OS from DVDs with larger SSDs, I bought two 128 GB Kingston SSDs from Amazon for $14.00 each. I was thinking that smaller drives like this might be harder to find in the future, and I don’t have a need for a lot of storage on my Kronos.

So I figured I would make one of the new drives an exact clone of my original drive, make sure it boots, and store it as a spare along with the original. Then I would make another clone and try using some partition utility to make the extra ~64 GB available for storage on Kronos if I should eventually need/want it.

I’ve always kinda-sorta wanted to play around with Linux, so I converted an older Asus laptop to Linux with the Ubuntu Desktop distro. I downloaded the Ubuntu ISO and burned it to a bootable USB thumb drive using Unetbootin. That went surprisingly smoothly… The only hiccup being some incorrect information on the web about how to get into the Asus laptop’s BIOS settings to enable the proper boot options.

Clonezilla and Gparted were readily available for download from the Ubuntu software repository by following simple instructions. But I had trouble trying to figure out how to use Clonezilla to do the “sector by sector copy” of the original drive. Interface didn’t look anything like what I saw on several YouTube video demos. Perhaps the videos were all using the Clonezilla “live boot” option where I was running it from within an Ubuntu install. After messing with it for a while I did get it to copy the drive, but it complained about partitions and did some sort of “optimization” that I didn’t understand. That image would not boot on my Kronos. So I pulled the new SSD back out of Kronos and brought it back to the Linux machine where the original Kronos drive was still connected. This time I used Linux low-level dd command to copy the original drive to the new drive:
sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc status=progress
This process took almost 3 hours to complete, but resulted in a clone that boots perfectly well on my Kronos. I didn’t time it, but it seems to reduce the boot time by about a full minute.

So now that I’ve figured out how to make a working clone, I will make another and try using Gparted to resize the ext3 /korg/rw partition and see if that works. Looking at other posts on the subject, I am seeing conflicting information about which partition should be re-sized. Intuitively it seems like /korg/rw should be the correct one.

But right now I’m happy just to have a spare bootable SDD. When I was messing with Clonezilla it told me that only about 27 GB of the original was used, and I still had like 29 GB free, and that is probably more than I’ll ever need.

[Xenophile]

PS
I am not enjoying repeatedly removing and replacing dozens of screws on the bottom of my Kronos 2-61. I also learned that it is not a good idea to try to flip the unit right-side-up with the bottom panel removed because there is nothing securing the keyboard assembly, and it wants to fall out.

[helminsen]

I have just purchased my first Kronos (a 2011) and are interested in getting a fresh "factory reset" with a larger SSD (thinking 250-500gb) by replacing the original disc.

Found this thread and my thought is that the below way seems to be a good option to go with but have anyone had problems during this process?

[quote="Xenophile"]Well, here's 11 pages of advice for the curious.
http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=68128&highlight=clone+ssd

I have also ordered 2x2gb RAM for it (understand that only 3gb will be available though).

Do not have the restore DVD's but will be downloading from Korg and follow the instructions in burning the DVD's.
Only thing that is a bit confusing to me is that for the Kronos (2011) and the X there are just 2 downloadable files (updated 2023.03.17) and the restore instructions states 3 discs (I see there are 3 downloadable files for the Kronos 2)?

[voip]

The original Kronos, and Kronos X came with two restore DVDs, whilst the Kronos 2 came with three DVDs.

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[helminsen]