I have heard similar about them but I have never had a problem with using them with dd. I think they don't work well for data recovery or forensics, but that is a much lower level than what you are using it for. Should work fine.
Good luck, Jason On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Richard C. Steffens <rst...@comcast.net>wrote: > On 09/16/2011 08:56 PM, Jason Barnett wrote: > > Yes, that process should work, but there is an easier way. If you have > > access to a IDE to USB adapter (I have one I would be willing to loan) > just > > swap out the drives, boot from a live linux CD then use dd to copy > straight > > from the old laptop drive to the new one. Once done, use gparted to > resize > > the partitions to take advantage of the larger hard drive and it should > be > > fine. > > Yes. I do have one of those. I'll give that a try tomorrow afternoon. > > I thought those USB drive devices didn't expose everything. I'll see > when I try it. > > Thanks! > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
