new drive must be same size or bigger. see Clonezilla DD+GUI and many guides and has a guide that can copy to a smaller drive (assuming used space and no corrupt files... might be a bit easier if in doubt Todd On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Andrew McRobb wrote: > Hey everyone, > > So my gf's wip computer seems like it has a bad drive. (100% usage when > not doing anything, and Windows can't see anything wrong with it.) My gf's > newphie's old computer still has a good drive. I'm not sure if it's larger > or smaller then the bad one, but I was planning on using dd on my main > machine to simply copy all the data into the newer drive from the bad one, > plus also I don't have Win8 cd key laying around. (gf wants to play games > on it primarily) > > Is there anything I need to watch out for when doing this? or should I be > using another tool for the job? > > Thanks, > > Andrew > > > Andrew McRobb > Full-time Software Developer > Part-time Freelancer > mcrobb.info > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Todd Cole Ubuntu Arizona Team 4605 S PRIEST DR LOT 3 TEMPE AZ 85282-6507 toddc@azloco.com 602-677-9402