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Disk cloning trouble due to slight size mismatch between source and target
I tried to clone sdb onto sdc but that failed due to a marginal size mismatch. I tried recovery options using gdisk to no avail. What are my options now for starting again from scratch? The source ...
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How to clone desktop NVMe into a bigger one?
I currently have a 2TB Samsung NVMe with several partitions, C being the system partition (Windows 11).
I purchased a 4TB WD NVMe that I'd like to upgrade to.
The Samsung is installed in one of the ...
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GPT Table repair after dd disc clone
I used dd to clone a 500gb Hard Drive to a 256gb SSD before doing this I edited the partitions so that the last 280gb (roughly) was unallocated using GParted.
Eventually dd ran out of room at 240gb, ...
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Clone windows hard disk and resize ntfs partitions from linux
I have a 500gb hard disk with two main NTFS partitions, one for a Windows OS and the other for data for use by that OS as well as the boot partition at the beginning of the disk. The data partition is ...
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Why my images created with DD have different sizes
I am working on cloning my Raspberry PI microSD cards in order restore then quickly.
I use DD linux tool with SSH because they are difficult to access physically.
From my computer, my command is : ssh ...
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Cloned Disk with dd in Linux Live Image
I used dd to clone with an Ubuntu Live Image from a smaller SSD to a bigger one. During the cloning process Ubuntu freezed. I waited some time and did a hard shutdown. After rebooting it seems the ...
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How can I use the dd command to clone a USB drive?
I have created a USB with a Linux distro on it and would like to clone it to another USB drive. The drive with the distro on it is 256GB, the distro is on roughly 8GB partition of USB drive. The drive ...
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Cloned SSD, how can I clone it again?
I cloned my SSD A to a similar SSD B with a live system and dd.
Now that backup got old and I want to save SSD A again to SSD B.
My question is, how can I delete that cloned SSD B to make it writeable ...
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Can I clone a hard drive containing an operating system using dd with any block size?
Is it safe to clone a hard drive to an image file in a bigger hard drive using dd and an arbitrary big block size for better speed? is the resulting image the same when using different bs? How about ...
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Is it possible to successfully clone (with dd) a Linux OS disk between different sized/models SSDs?
I have a CentOS installed on quite an old SSD.
The SSD indicates hardware problems in the syslog.
I suspect that the answer to the following is no, especially due to superblocks and boot-sectors ...
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Creating image of CF card produces inconsistent results
A friend is trying to clone a CF card using the following linux command:
sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=card3.img bs=4M status=progress
but each time, it is producing a different image.
The first two cards ...
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Cloning an (almost broken) HDD via dd
I have a HDD of 1TB size, that is almost broken. Sometimes I am able to boot to windows, sometimes the computer freezes at the windows boot logo and sometimes I am able to use it for a certain period ...
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How to clone entire VeraCrypt encrypted system drive and mount it later on Windows 10 to copy selected files?
I'm doing a fresh install of Windows and I need to make a copy of all files in my system drive so I can restore them later.
I want to clone entire drive with dd tool (I'm going to use clonezilla).
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Cloning Hard Drive with DD May have Bricked the PC?
I wished to clone a 500GB hard drive, so I booted into Kali Linux and ran the following command:
dd if=/dev/sda of=/media/root/usb/windows.img bs=64k conv=noerror
This all worked absolutely fine, ...
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How to clone MicroSD Card Linux boot drive?
I have a Lubuntu installation booting from a MicroSD card. I want to clone the bootable MicroSD card so that I can restore it to another card if it fails at some stage in the future. Will the command ...
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