[ale] Cloning laptop drive didn't work

[Alex Carver]

On 2024-04-26 14:57, DJPfulio--- via Ale wrote:
> On 4/26/24 03:42, Alex Carver via Ale wrote:
> 
>> I made an image of the full drive and then dd'ed it to the SSD.
>> Plugged it into the Toshiba and got the GRUB menu and the initramfs
>> loaded. But then it just had all kinds of ATA timeouts and stopped in
>> its tracks. I tried disabling ACPI and that didn't help.
> 
> dd isn't the best tool for this.  ddrescue is much better since it 
> handles failures nicer and keeps trying to get the data.  I think the 
> package name is gddrescue. There are two versions, perhaps one is a 
> fork? IDK.

I used ddrescue to generate the image and then used dd to write the 
image out to the new disk. But the old disk isn't failing, it's just 
slow so I wanted to switch out to the SSD.

> 
>> If I plug the full stack of IDE adapter and SSD into a USB to IDE
>> adapter and plug that into another computer I can mount the SSD and
>> see all the files, no problem.
> 
> USB adapters can lie to the OS about the drive characteristics. Of 
> course, we don't know this until later.  Of my 4 USB drive docks, only 1 
> of them lies, but it is a pain because that was the one I setup new 
> storage through and copied all the data over using.  When it was time to 
> put the HDD inside the case, all the drive parameters were different so 
> all that work was for nothing.  I freaked out a bit, since it was a new 
> 8TB WD Black that I'd setup and put about 2TB onto.
> 
> Anyway, something to consider.
> 
>>
>> I'm not sure what the issue is at this point because everything seems
>> to be in place. Thoughts? 
> 
> Sometimes life is out to get you. It isn't being paranoid.  But I don't 
> have any OTHER thoughts related to this topic.
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