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Author: Andrew McRobb
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Subject: Re: Is it safe to dd two drives, if you want to simply transfer data?
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!

Andrew McRobb
Full-time Software Developer
Part-time Freelancer
mcrobb.info

On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Todd Cole <> 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 <>
> 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
>>
>>
>> Andrew McRobb
>> Full-time Software Developer
>> Part-time Freelancer
>> mcrobb.info
>>
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