Just chiming in that it should work but I will be curious if windows requires you to reregister due to hard ware changes. Let me know if the hard drive swap causes the system to deregister. > On Dec 30, 2017, at 5:33 PM, Andrew McRobb wrote: > > Hi Todd, thanks for the feedback! I'll give it a go if bigger or same. Clonezilla sounds good, worst case. I'll report back here if something caches fire. > > Thanks! > > Andrew McRobb > Full-time Software Developer > Part-time Freelancer > mcrobb.info > >> On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Todd Cole wrote: >> 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 >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> 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 > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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