Re: dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

FWIW, I've created VMs (VirtualBox or libvirt) of WinXP & Win7 to support old software that doesn't work in newer versions. I turned off all updates on them. If I need to add software to them, I make a copy first. I'd save a copy of that image somewhere and try to make a VM out of it. Of

Re: dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

Worked on the first boot. Booted in maybe 10 seconds! Ran CrystalDiskMark on the before and after. It's the random 4k stuff that really makes a difference. The Samsung EVO860 SSD is a minimum of 77x faster on random write and 100x faster on random read as compared to the WD HDD. (RND4K, Q1T1).

Re: dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

I was 20 minutes into dd when I noticed that the disks were mounted. Aborted dd. Unmounted both disks and restarted dd. I'm at the tail end of the run, and hoping it completed without errors. If it barfs I may try ddrescue, the gnu version. The old disk has really bad random access rates.

Re: dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

On 3/23/21 9:07 AM, Bruce Labitt wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 8:52 AM Dan Jenkins > wrote: > > In my experience dd works. Make sure the destination disk is larger than > the source. I've had problems sometimes when they were the exact same > size. Any

Re: dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

Thanks for the update. The HDD is a WD. If dd fails, I may try the Acronis. On Tue, Mar 23, 2021, 11:33 AM Greg Kettmann wrote: > I used Acronis True Image. It's free but only works if one of the drives > is Western Digital. It worked great for my brother as well. > > I believe I've also

Re: dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

I used Acronis True Image. It's free but only works if one of the drives is Western Digital.  It worked great for my brother as well. I believe I've also used EaseUS, further in the past. Even  further back I think I used Partition Magic (to clone a boot drive) but I don't think that's free

Re: dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

It would seem clonezilla requires linux x86* to run. Unfortunately I'm on a RPI4, as my "real linux laptop" is being repaired. Seems I'm stuck with dd or gddrescue. At the moment it has taken 6571s to copy 677GB... hope this works. Less than an hour to go, I hope. On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at

Re: dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

I've used https://clonezilla.org/ in the past with great success. Windows 7 & Server 2008 were the last windows systems I've used it on. I always connected via ssh to a machine with storage to place the images. You can restore to the same size drive or larger. The image is created with partclone

Re: dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

In my case the disks report to be the same size in lsblk. fdisk -l reports the hdd is 1000204886016 bytes, and the sdd is 1000204886016 bytes or exactly the same size. Guess I will try dd. Fingers crossed... On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 8:52 AM Dan Jenkins wrote: > In my experience dd works.

Re: dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

In my experience dd works. Make sure the destination disk is larger than the source. I've had problems sometimes when they were the exact same size. Any other issue was due to issues on the source disk, in which case ddrescue, has worked. On 2021-03-23 08:33, Bruce Labitt wrote: > I'd be

Re: dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

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 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

Re: dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

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

Re: dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Tuesday 23 March 2021, Bruce Labitt was heard to say: > Is there a compelling reason to use ddrescue over dd for this? Is > gnu ddrescue the preferred choice of the ddrescues? Until now I'd never even heard of ddrescue. Reading the gnu page for

Re: dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

Probably only if you're getting read errors on the old device. But I'm not a particular expert. Re: using dd at all, the target drive must be at least as big as the source partition. (I'm assuming that everything uses LBA (logical block addressing) these days. In the bad old days we had to

Re: dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

Is there a compelling reason to use ddrescue over dd for this? Is gnu ddrescue the preferred choice of the ddrescues? Or is this a fool's errand? On Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 11:14 PM Curt Howland wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On Monday 22 March 2021, Bruce Labitt

Re: dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Monday 22 March 2021, Bruce Labitt was heard to say: > 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? Since using

dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

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