All the advice to use "dd" is OK. But it will spend hours copying many gigabytes of blank areas of the disk. I bet there is only a few megabytes of data you really need.
The simple way is to make a bootable disk or SD card (or better an SSD) from scratch. Just the same way everyone installs from scratch. Then boot that drive, mount the old disk and copy those files you need across. This is MUCH faster. Buy a cheap USB SSD, it is much faster and more reliable than an SD card. Small ones are realy cheap now. But BEFORE you do anything at all BACKUP the important data off the failing drive. Do this twice then verify you can read the backups then place the backup someplace out of reach. No need to backup data you can download from the Internet. Only backup the files you made yourself. Then think about how to automate the backup so you never have to worry about losing data. Even SSDs can fail. Now that you have a safe backup make the new boot drive. I would not "clone" the old drive. On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 7:25 PM andrew beck <andrewbeck0...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey guys. > > Just a quick question here > > I recently heard some funny clanking noises in my old 2nd hand hard drive > on my VMC and thought I better change it out and get a SSD in there. > > I have a bunch of stuff loaded onto the hardrive for probe basic gui and > other stuff and would like to clone the drive and keep everything. > > I can manage a windows cloning I am just not sure if the process will work > on a linux system. I am using a crucial brand SSD and can download the > drive cloning software (it is rebadged acronis cloning software) > > anyway some help would be appreciated. > > > regards > > Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
