Hi Mark, welcome back! :-) On Monday, 6 January 2020 19:55:44 GMT Michael Jones wrote: > Generally the way I've handled this situation in the past is like so (this > is written from memory, so expect gratuitous problems). > > On the machine with the drive attached > mbuffer -i /dev/mydrive | xz -e -9 | mbuffer -O hostname:port > > On a machine with storage space > mbuffer -I port -o /path/to/storage.xz > > To make a backup.
Useful for creating a compressed backup image over the network, but not for cloning. > In terms of cloning windows to another harddrive in general, as long as the > destination harddrive is large enough to fit the original drive without > issues, simply running: > > dd if=/dev/original of=/dev/destination > (I prefer dcfldd, personally) This will take for-ever on larger disks as it will be copying all empty bits and bytes. Instead you may wish to try clonezilla, or partclone. https://clonezilla.org/ Clonezilla Live will copy the whole disk or selected partitions along with their UUIDs, so Win10 should have no idea it was just migrated. ;-) You'll need a USB/eSATA caddy to put your new drive in and connect it to the candidate laptop, or fit both drives in your desktop and perform the cloning there. Here's the step-by-step instructions you asked for: https://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live-doc.php -- Regards, Mick
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