dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

[Bruce Labitt]

I'd be grateful to learn what worked.  No need to waste my time more than
necessary.

On Tue, Mar 23, 2021, 8:30 AM Greg Kettmann <greg at kettmann.com> wrote:

> 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, 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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