https://superuser.com/questions/1050894/dd-clone-hd-to-ssd?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=google_rich_qa&utm_campaign=google_rich_qa On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 4:11 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: > well, my issue just now is two fold: > 1. I don't have the right tools > 2. my place is a mess (don't ask, I am too embarrassed to have anyone > inside and the room mates are just as disabled, which means that some kinds > of work needed to be done around here isn't happening). > > anyway, about all I need to do is DD the old drive onto the new drive and > then install it. Not too hard with an external data port, power lead and a > Vinux usb stick. > > -eric > On May 24, 2018, at 8:54 AM, Stephen Partington wrote: > > I can get access to an iFixit kit. they are immensely handy in working on > a laptop. > > On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 7:37 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: > >> well, >> I just acquired a 250 GB SSD and I have a dell latitude laptop (vintage >> 2013). I know what panel to remove to gain access to the HDD and ram, but >> my fingers aren't sufficient to find all the necessary bits to remove so >> that I can install the new drive. >> >> anyone willing to help? >> >> I am thinking of running it concurrent to the old style HDD in there (or >> at least until I can order a second one and have a dual boot SSD setup). >> >> -eric >> >> On May 23, 2018, at 2:47 PM, Stephen Partington wrote: >> >> I have dealt with latitudes for a while. The NVIDIA systems worked great >> with hybrid graphics (thanks to bumblebee!) but the one i had with a radeon >> GPU lost its gourd any time i tried to use the AMD GPU. I think the drivers >> are just better for nvidia in this regard. >> >> Makes em want to dual boot linux on my laptop again.... >> >> >> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 2:13 PM, Matt Graham >> wrote: >> >>> On 2018-05-23 10:22, Jerry Snitselaar wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon May 21 18, Stephen Partington wrote: >>>> >>>>> I have found that intel/AMD hybrid laptop combinations are a real pita >>>>> to work with and get all of your hardware running. [...] Intel has >>>>> embraced Linux pretty well of late so aside from hybrid soft raid it >>>>> all works. >>>>> >>>> Intel has one of the largest kernel teams of any company right >>>> now. They do a pretty good job at getting support for their hardware >>>> into the kernel as quickly as possible >>>> >>> >>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/hybrid_graphics says the hybrid >>> graphics parts should be doable. At least that's what I thought you meant >>> when you said "intel/AMD hybrid". There are also a lot of references to >>> fooling with various settings ("AHCI mode in the BIOS") to get a >>> spinny-disk + M.2 setup (hybrid soft RAID?) recognized properly. I don't >>> know for sure though, never tried to install anything on one of these. >>> >>> Any idea what Dell systems you were having trouble with? >>>> >>> >>> Yeah, we had many poweredge machines, and only one of them ever had any >>> real trouble with Linux. I think its hardware was flaky. For every other >>> machine, just install, configure, and it ran until the {disk, fan, CPU, >>> NIC} pooped out. >>> >>> -- >>> Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress >>> There is no Darkness in Eternity >>> But only Light too dim for us to see. >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from >> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. >> >> Stephen >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from > rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > > Stephen > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen