dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

[Dan Jenkins]

In my experience dd works. Make sure the destination disk is larger than 
the source. I've had problems sometimes when they were the exact same 
size. Any other issue was due to issues on the source disk, in which 
case ddrescue, has worked.

On 2021-03-23 08:33, Bruce Labitt wrote:
> 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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