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> Behalf Of *Eric Oyen
> *Sent:* Saturday, December 30, 2017 7:20 PM
> *To:* Main PLUG discussion list
> *Subject:* Re: Is it safe to dd two drives, if you want to simply
> transfer data?
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> well, you might need to set block size to make t
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From: PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf
Of Eric Oyen
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2017 7:20 PM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Is it safe to dd two drives, if you want to simply transfer data?
well, you might need to set block size to make the t
well, you might need to set block size to make the transfer optimal. Also, dd
the entire drive to an image on the destination drive (assuming the destination
is larger). this will preserve the partition table and filesystem attributes.
-eric
from the central offices of the Technomage Guild, Driv
1. linux list 😀 But
Aaron FYI windows OS tags to CPU from my testing over the years but there
are options to re-register if needed (Hardware upgrade)both online and
phone call
I often have to re-register when moving Physical to virtual Servers
On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 6:22 PM, Aaron Jones wrote:
Just chiming in that it should work but I will be curious if windows requires
you to reregister due to hard ware changes.
Let me know if the hard drive swap causes the system to deregister.
> On Dec 30, 2017, at 5:33 PM, Andrew McRobb wrote:
>
> Hi Todd, thanks for the feedback! I'll give it
Hi Todd, thanks for the feedback! I'll give it a go if bigger or same.
Clonezilla sounds good, worst case. I'll report back here if something
caches fire.
Thanks!
Andrew McRobb
Full-time Software Developer
Part-time Freelancer
mcrobb.info
On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Todd Cole wrote:
> new
new drive must be same size or bigger. see Clonezilla DD+GUI and many
guides and has a guide that can copy to a smaller drive (assuming used
space and no corrupt files... might be a bit easier if in doubt Todd
On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Andrew McRobb
wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> So my gf's
Hey everyone,
So my gf's wip computer seems like it has a bad drive. (100% usage when not
doing anything, and Windows can't see anything wrong with it.) My gf's
newphie's old computer still has a good drive. I'm not sure if it's larger
or smaller then the bad one, but I was planning on using dd on
