Move Data From External Hard Drive To Laptop Hardrive

[mahesh]

Gateway NE56R (I already know it is as old as my first son)  Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with all updates current as of 03JUL22. Fresh install and no exotic add ons.

So, my old laptop finally quit in that I cannot get power or a light in the screen. I purchased a hard drive enclosure as the old system stopped working (screen, lights, etc.) and it connects to my current laptop without issue. To that point, the USB which connects my hard drive (from the old system) enclosure mounts the data such as initrd, vmlinuz, grub folder, config, etc. What both the external hard drive and the local hard drive in the laptop have in common is Ubuntu 22.04. It should be noted that I have Disk Encryption installed on the hard drive seated as the external source. The laptop hard drive IS NOT encrypted. When I load it it has two USB symbols and I click the one locked and enter my password and it opens it up.

I attempted to move all the files to a folder on the laptop and then execute the initrd.img but it states that I cannot transfer some of the files and thus they are missing. Not sure if that is even the right thing to do, but did try. When I click the initrd.img it opens Restore Disk Image which lists my external hard drive, the laptop drive and the CD drive. This is the picture (and attached as file): https://imgur.com/a/k3EjNEC

I presume that the external hard drive via USB is mounted as I get:

/boot/efi /dev/sda1 vfat rw,relatime,fmask=└─/media/ghost/ad3acb64-303f-42e4-8729-7f217327ef8f
/dev/sdb1 ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,re

My only interest are the files I had on there. A lot were on folders and some were simply saved and stored on Desktop. After getting those files I simply want to use the external hard drive for storage.

The below are the files listed in the external hard drive when I execute "dir" and many of these files have a Red X as I guess they are simply old versions:


grub
config-5.15.0-39-generic
config-5.15.0-40-generic



initrd.img.old
initrd.img
initrd.img-5.15.0-39-generic
initrd.img-5.15.0-40-generic
lost+found
memtest86+.bin
memtest86+_multiboot.bin
memtest86+.elf
System.map-5.15.0-39-generic
System.map-5.15.0-40-generic
vmlinuz
vmlinuz.old
vmlinuz-5.15.0-39-generic



vmlinuz-5.15.0-40-generic


Not sure if the next set of info is needed, but including it anyway ...

lshw -short

H/W path Device Class Description
================================================== ===============
system NE56R (NE56R_0649_V2.15)
/0 bus EG50_HC_HR
/0/0 memory 128KiB BIOS
/0/4 processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU B9
/0/4/b memory 32KiB L1 cache
/0/4/c memory 256KiB L2 cache
/0/4/d memory 2MiB L3 cache
/0/a memory 32KiB L1 cache
/0/1a memory 4GiB System Memory
/0/1a/0 memory DIMM [empty]
/0/1a/1 memory DIMM [empty]
/0/1a/2 memory 4GiB SODIMM DDR3 Synchrono
/0/1a/3 memory DIMM [empty]
/0/100 bridge 2nd Generation Core Proces
/0/100/2 /dev/fb0 display 2nd Generation Core Proces
/0/100/16 communication 7 Series/C216 Chipset Fami
/0/100/1a bus 7 Series/C216 Chipset Fami
/0/100/1a/1 usb1 bus EHCI Host Controller
/0/100/1a/1/1 bus Integrated Rate Matching H
/0/100/1a/1/1/3 input24 multimedia HD WebCam: HD WebCam
/0/100/1b card0 multimedia 7 Series/C216 Chipset Fami
/0/100/1b/0 input25 input HDA Intel PCH Mic
/0/100/1b/1 input26 input HDA Intel PCH Headphone
/0/100/1b/2 input27 input HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=
/0/100/1c bridge 7 Series/C216 Chipset Fami
/0/100/1c/0 enp2s0f0 network NetLink BCM57785 Gigabit E
/0/100/1c/0.1 mmc0 bus BCM57765/57785 SDXC/MMC Ca
/0/100/1c/0.2 generic BCM57765/57785 MS Card Rea
/0/100/1c/0.3 generic BCM57765/57785 xD-Picture
/0/100/1c.1 bridge 7 Series/C210 Series Chips
/0/100/1c.1/0 wlp3s0 network AR9485 Wireless Network Ad
/0/100/1d bus 7 Series/C216 Chipset Fami
/0/100/1d/1 usb2 bus EHCI Host Controller
/0/100/1d/1/1 bus Integrated Rate Matching H
/0/100/1d/1/1/1 scsi4 storage NS1068
/0/100/1d/1/1/1/0.0.0 /dev/sdb disk 500GB ST500LT012-1DG14
/0/100/1d/1/1/1/0.0.0/1 /dev/sdb1 volume 731MiB EXT4 volume
/0/100/1d/1/1/1/0.0.0/2 /dev/sdb2 volume 465GiB Extended partition
/0/100/1d/1/1/1/0.0.0/2/5 /dev/sdb5 volume 465GiB Linux filesystem pa
/0/100/1d/1/1/3 input USB Receiver
/0/100/1d/1/1/3/0 input20 input Logitech M325
/0/100/1d/1/1/3/1 input21 input Logitech M525
/0/100/1f bridge HM70 Express Chipset LPC C
/0/100/1f/0 generic PnP device MSF0001
/0/100/1f/1 generic PnP device ETD0500
/0/100/1f/2 system PnP device PNP0c02
/0/100/1f/3 system PnP device PNP0b00
/0/100/1f/4 generic PnP device INT3f0d
/0/100/1f/5 system PnP device PNP0c02
/0/100/1f/6 system PnP device PNP0c01
/0/100/1f.2 scsi0 storage 7 Series Chipset Family 6-
/0/100/1f.2/0 /dev/sda disk 500GB WDC WD5000LPVX-2
/0/100/1f.2/0/1 volume 511MiB Windows FAT volume
/0/100/1f.2/0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 465GiB EXT4 volume
/0/100/1f.2/1 /dev/cdrom disk DVD-RAM UJ8E1
/0/100/1f.3 bus 7 Series/C216 Chipset Fami
/1 input0 input Power Button
/2 input1 input Lid Switch
/3 input2 input Sleep Button
/4 input22 input Acer WMI hotkeys
/5 input23 input Video Bus
/6 input3 input Power Button
/7 input4 input AT Translated Set 2 keyboa
/8 input6 input ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad






Any help appreciated!