<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I've used <a href="https://clonezilla.org/">https://clonezilla.org/</a> in the past with great success. Windows 7 & Server 2008 were the last windows systems I've used it on.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I always connected via ssh to a machine with storage to place the images.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">You can restore to the same size drive or larger.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">The image is created with partclone so it's smaller, but it will fall back to dd if needed.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 9:09 AM Bruce Labitt <<a href="mailto:bdlabitt@gmail.com">bdlabitt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">In my case the disks report to be the same size in lsblk. <div>fdisk -l reports the hdd is 1000204886016 bytes, and the sdd is 1000204886016 bytes or exactly the same size.</div><div>Guess I will try dd. Fingers crossed...<br><div><br><div><br><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 8:52 AM Dan Jenkins <<a href="mailto:dan@rastech.com" target="_blank">dan@rastech.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">In my experience dd works. Make sure the destination disk is larger than <br>
the source. I've had problems sometimes when they were the exact same <br>
size. Any other issue was due to issues on the source disk, in which <br>
case ddrescue, has worked.<br>
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On 2021-03-23 08:33, Bruce Labitt wrote:<br>
> I'd be grateful to learn what worked. No need to waste my time more than<br>
> necessary.<br>
><br>
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2021, 8:30 AM Greg Kettmann <<a href="mailto:greg@kettmann.com" target="_blank">greg@kettmann.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> I don't know if dd works. I've done this several times using freely<br>
>> available utilities. In one case I tried and it failed. I simply used a<br>
>> different utility and it worked. I was impressed with the results,<br>
>> particularly with dramatically improved boot times.<br>
>><br>
>> Sorry to be vague. You were asking about dd. If you're interested in<br>
>> which utility(s) I used just let me know. I should have records. The last<br>
>> time was a year ago.<br>
>><br>
>> Greg<br>
>><br>
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>> On Mar 22, 2021, at 10:19 PM, Bruce Labitt <<a href="mailto:bdlabitt@gmail.com" target="_blank">bdlabitt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> Have this excruciatingly slow Win10 HDD I'd like to clone to SSD.<br>
>>> Reading about how to do this leads me to dd as a way to clone the disk.<br>
>>> The disks are close in size. According to lsblk, the HDD sdb is 931.5GB,<br>
>>> and the SSD sdf is 931.5GB.<br>
>>><br>
>>> sdb has 5 partitions on it.<br>
>>> 1) EFI 500MiB<br>
>>> 2) MS reserved partition 128MiB<br>
>>> 3) OS "basic data" partition 918.07GiB<br>
>>> 4) WINRETOOLS 852MiB<br>
>>> 5) Image 11.56GiB<br>
>>><br>
>>> sdf has stuff on it, which I presume will be wiped out by dd.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Since the sizes are "equal", can I just # dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdf<br>
>>> bs=1M status=progress and be done with it? Is there anything else that I'd<br>
>>> need to do to get it to boot?<br>
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