dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

[Tom Buskey]

I've used https://clonezilla.org/ in the past with great success.  Windows
7 & Server 2008 were the last windows systems I've used it on.

I always connected via ssh to a machine with storage to place the images.
You can restore to the same size drive or larger.
The image is created with partclone so it's smaller, but it will fall back
to dd if needed.



On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 9:09 AM Bruce Labitt <bdlabitt at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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