Is it safe to dd two drives, if you want to simply transfer data?

[Todd Cole]

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 <andrewmcrobb at gmail.com>
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
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