dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

[Bruce Labitt]

Thanks for the update.  The HDD is a WD.  If dd fails, I may try the
Acronis.

On Tue, Mar 23, 2021, 11:33 AM Greg Kettmann <greg at kettmann.com> wrote:

> I used Acronis True Image. It's free but only works if one of the drives
> is Western Digital.  It worked great for my brother as well.
>
> I believe I've also used EaseUS, further in the past. Even  further back I
> think I used Partition Magic (to clone a boot drive) but I don't think
> that's free anymore.
>
> I've cloned boot drives (mostly Windows, I usually rebuild Linux machines)
> quite a few times and have had excellent luck with the utilities.  They're
> flexible with (larger) drive or partition sizes. I've not had multiple
> other partitions to contend with but copying them shouldn't be difficult.
> It's the MBR that is the challenge and having all the boot pointers
> pointing to the right locations.
>
> Good luck.  It's well worth it.  On an old machine the boot time was
> reduced by a factor of ten. Your mileage may vary but I've done this at
> least 6 times and never been disappointed.  Now I always make my boot drive
> is an SSD.
>
> Greg
>
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> On Mar 23, 2021, at 7:33 AM, Bruce Labitt <bdlabitt at gmail.com> 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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