clonezilla is a very good idea for this. It does a ton of the dd options
automatically for you.

On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 3:42 PM, Carruth, Rusty <Rusty.Carruth@smartm.com>
wrote:

> I’m late to the party, but if the idea is to take the ‘new’ drive (the dd
> destination) and install it in the computer that had the dd source drive –
> then all this bogus Windows registration garbge should be a nonissue.  Of
> course, if the idea is to take the drive to a different PC – well, yes,
> issues will arise.
>
>
>
> And, for the record, I use DD a lot when duplicating drives.  As long as
> the target is as big as (LBA count!!!!!!!) the source, there should be no
> issues.
>
>
>
> IF, however, you have read issues on your source drive, then DO NOT USE
> DD!!! Use DDRESCUE instead…
>
>
>
> Rusty
>
>
>
> *From:* PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Eric Oyen
> *Sent:* Saturday, December 30, 2017 7:20 PM
> *To:* Main PLUG discussion list
> *Subject:* Re: Is it safe to dd two drives, if you want to simply
> transfer data?
>
>
>
> well, you might need to set block size to make the transfer optimal. Also,
> dd the entire drive to an image on the destination drive (assuming the
> destination is larger). this will preserve the partition table and
> filesystem attributes.
>
>
>
> -eric
>
> from the central offices of the Technomage Guild, Drive Mechanics Dept.
>
>
>
> On 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
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