<div dir="ltr"><div>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.<br><br></div>Thanks!<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(255,153,0)">Andrew McRobb</span><br></font></div><font size="4"><font size="2">Full-time Software Developer</font><br></font></div><font size="4"><font size="2">Part-time Freelancer</font><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="4"><a href="http://mcrobb.info" target="_blank"><font size="2">mcrobb.info</font></a><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Todd Cole <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:toddc@azloco.com" target="_blank">toddc@azloco.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Andrew McRobb <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrewmcrobb@gmail.com" target="_blank">andrewmcrobb@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hey everyone,<br></div><div><br>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)<br><br></div>Is there anything I need to watch out for when doing this? or should I be using another tool for the job?<br><br></div>Thanks,<br><br></div>Andrew<span class="m_-3036570764007987890HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><div><div><div><div><br><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-3036570764007987890m_5465900353185384416gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(255,153,0)">Andrew McRobb</span><br></font></div><font size="4"><font size="2">Full-time Software Developer</font><br></font></div><font size="4"><font size="2">Part-time Freelancer</font><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="4"><a href="http://mcrobb.info" target="_blank"><font size="2">mcrobb.info</font></a><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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