<html><head></head><body style="zoom: 0%;"><div dir="auto">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. <br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">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. <br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">Greg<br><br></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote" >On Mar 22, 2021, at 10:19 PM, Bruce Labitt <<a href="mailto:bdlabitt@gmail.com" target="_blank">bdlabitt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">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. <div><br></div><div>sdb has 5 partitions on it. </div><div>1) EFI 500MiB</div><div>2) MS reserved partition 128MiB</div><div>3) OS "basic data" partition 918.07GiB</div><div>4) WINRETOOLS 852MiB</div><div>5) Image 11.56GiB</div><div><br></div><div>sdf has stuff on it, which I presume will be wiped out by dd.</div><div><br></div><div>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?</div></div>
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