<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">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.<div><br></div><div>-eric</div><div>from the central offices of the Technomage Guild, Drive Mechanics Dept.</div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 30, 2017, at 5:04 PM, Andrew McRobb wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><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<br><div><div><div><div><br><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>
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