<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">clonezilla is a very good idea for this. It does a ton of the dd options automatically for you.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 3:42 PM, Carruth, Rusty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Rusty.Carruth@smartm.com" target="_blank">Rusty.Carruth@smartm.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">IF, however, you have read issues on your source drive, then DO NOT USE DD!!! Use DDRESCUE instead…<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, December 30, 2017 7:20 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: Is it safe to dd two drives, if you want to simply transfer data?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">from the central offices of the Technomage Guild, Drive Mechanics Dept.<u></u><u></u></p>
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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
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