dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

[Greg Kettmann]

I don't know if dd works. I've done this several times using freely available utilities.  In one case I tried and it failed.  I simply used a different utility and it worked.  I was impressed with the results, particularly with dramatically improved boot times. 

Sorry to be vague. You were asking about dd.  If you're interested in which utility(s) I used just let me know.  I should have records.  The last time was a year ago. 

Greg

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On Mar 22, 2021, 10:19 PM, at 10:19 PM, Bruce Labitt <bdlabitt at gmail.com> wrote:
>Have this excruciatingly slow Win10 HDD I'd like to clone to SSD. 
>Reading
>about how to do this leads me to dd as a way to clone the disk.  The
>disks
>are close in size.  According to lsblk, the HDD sdb is 931.5GB, and the
>SSD
>sdf is 931.5GB.
>
>sdb has 5 partitions on it.
>1) EFI                              500MiB
>2) MS reserved partition  128MiB
>3) OS "basic data" partition 918.07GiB
>4) WINRETOOLS             852MiB
>5) Image                           11.56GiB
>
>sdf has stuff on it, which I presume will be wiped out by dd.
>
>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?
>
>
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