<div dir="auto">Thanks for the update. The HDD is a WD. If dd fails, I may try the Acronis. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 23, 2021, 11:33 AM Greg Kettmann <<a href="mailto:greg@kettmann.com">greg@kettmann.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="zoom:0%"><div dir="auto">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. <br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">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. <br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">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. <br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">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. <br><br></div>
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I'd be grateful to learn what worked. No need to waste my time more than necessary.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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