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

[Aaron Jones]

Just chiming in that it should work but I will be curious if windows requires you to reregister due to hard ware changes. 

Let me know if the hard drive swap causes the system to deregister. 

> On Dec 30, 2017, at 5:33 PM, Andrew McRobb <andrewmcrobb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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!
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>> On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Todd Cole <toddc at azloco.com> 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 <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
>>> 
>>> 
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