I'd be grateful to learn what worked. No need to waste my time more than necessary.
On Tue, Mar 23, 2021, 8:30 AM Greg Kettmann <g...@kettmann.com> wrote: > I don't know if dd works. I've done this several times using freely > available utilities. In one case I tried and it failed. I simply used a > different utility and it worked. I was impressed with the results, > particularly with dramatically improved boot times. > > Sorry to be vague. You were asking about dd. If you're interested in > which utility(s) I used just let me know. I should have records. The last > time was a year ago. > > Greg > > Get TypeApp for Android <http://www.typeapp.com/r?b=16417> > On Mar 22, 2021, at 10:19 PM, Bruce Labitt <bdlab...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Have this excruciatingly slow Win10 HDD I'd like to clone to SSD. >> Reading about how to do this leads me to dd as a way to clone the disk. >> The disks are close in size. According to lsblk, the HDD sdb is 931.5GB, >> and the SSD sdf is 931.5GB. >> >> sdb has 5 partitions on it. >> 1) EFI 500MiB >> 2) MS reserved partition 128MiB >> 3) OS "basic data" partition 918.07GiB >> 4) WINRETOOLS 852MiB >> 5) Image 11.56GiB >> >> sdf has stuff on it, which I presume will be wiped out by dd. >> >> Since the sizes are "equal", can I just # dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdf >> bs=1M status=progress and be done with it? Is there anything else that I'd >> need to do to get it to boot? >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> gnhlug-discuss mailing list >> gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org >> http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ >> >>
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