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
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On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Todd Cole <toddc@azloco.com> 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 <andrewmcrobb@gmail.com> 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
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