[ale] Cloning laptop drive didn't work

[Boris Borisov]

Clonezilla maybe.

On Sat, Apr 27, 2024, 02:43 Alex Carver via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> 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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