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

[Todd Cole]

1. linux list 😀 But
Aaron  FYI windows OS tags to CPU from my testing over the years but there
are options to re-register if needed (Hardware upgrade)both online and
phone call

I often have to re-register when moving Physical to virtual Servers

On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 6:22 PM, Aaron Jones <retro64xyz at gmail.com> wrote:

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