dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

[Bruce Labitt]

In my case the disks report to be the same size in lsblk.
fdisk -l reports the hdd is 1000204886016 bytes, and the sdd
is 1000204886016 bytes or exactly the same size.
Guess I will try dd.  Fingers crossed...




On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 8:52 AM Dan Jenkins <dan at rastech.com> wrote:

> 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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