dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

[Bruce Labitt]

Is there a compelling reason to use ddrescue over dd for this?  Is gnu
ddrescue the preferred choice of the ddrescues?

Or is this a fool's errand?

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 11:14 PM Curt Howland <Howland at priss.com> wrote:

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> On Monday 22 March 2021, Bruce Labitt was heard to say:
> > Since the sizes are "equal", can I just # dd if=/dev/sdb
> > of=/dev/sdf bs=1M status=progress and be done with it?  Is there
> > anything else that I'd need to do to get it to boot?
>
> Since using dd to copy boot .iso images works, I would assume the boot
> record of a hdd would be copied over as well.
>
> Just an assumption, since that's not something I've ever tried.
>
> So long as your sdf has nothing on it of consequence, the worst thing
> that could happen is failure and you go back to your existing sdb.
>
> Do say what happens, curiosity abounds.
>
> Curt-
>
> - --
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