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 <andrewmcrobb@gmail.com> 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!

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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

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