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How to merge two drives into larger new one

I have a setup (UEFI) with two SSDs, which contain a Windows partition, a Linux partition, boot and swap partitions and a data partition. I want to move all of these to a single new SSD. How do I go ...
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Partitions at the beginning and end of drive and migration to smaller SSD

I need to migrate one 256GB HDD to 240GB SSD, but EFI partition is at the very end of my HDD. I already did backup: sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=backup.img but I can't put this image to my SSD drive, ...
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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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Clone only space in use from hard disk

Can I use dd, rsync, clonezilla or any tool to clone only space in use in my hard disk in Linux? I need to do a backup from a 1 TB HD (with only 2 GB space in use) into a 500 GB HD.
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Clonezilla stopped. Can "sgdisk -z /dev/sdx" destroy all the data on sda?

I need suggestions. I wanted to backup sda2 on which Win7 is installed. I deleted the Recovery Resion. (Probably Testdisk can restore this partition because I haven't done any manipulation on that ...
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Clonezilla Disk too Small when it isn't

I took a 320 gig hard drive, shrunk the partition for Windows to 40 gigabytes, and cloned the partition. I'm trying to restore onto a 250 gig drive. I keep getting either a failed partition table, or ...
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Cloning harddrive I/O errors after about 30 seconds

I am trying to clone a harddrive with important data to another harddrive to make sure we can keep those files safe. Now my old HD is a 500GB 3.5" and the new one is 1TB 3.5". My old HD is plugged ...
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