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Cloning windows onto a new drive for non-retards 2017-05-07 04:29:14 Post No. 60255527
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Cloning windows onto a new drive for non-retards
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2017-05-07 04:29:14
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So, /g/. I need to use wangblows for work, and the drive that it's currently installed on is pathetically tiny and since a bunch of shit software REQUIRES that it stores files on C:\, I need to move windows to one of my other SSDs.
Is there a way to do this without nuking the other drive? Everything I've found online suggests that you use a ton of software to make the new drive bootable but it seems ludicrous to me that I would need that many steps and that much shitware to do a simple file transfer.
Is there any reason that I can't just copy over the windows files and the mark the other drive as bootable using a BIOS option?
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Well, fuck it. Using robocopy to move the files now.
Here's hoping that I can boot from the secondary drive
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Use gparted to clone the partitions to a new disk. If the new disk is smaller, shrink the c drive first. Fdisk should run its self once the new drive boots. Make sure your drive letters show up correctly
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>>60255527
You could also just go about cloning the drive if you want it to be exactly the way you have it now, in which case paragon drive copy is extremely straightforward
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dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
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>>60256134
i don't like this. it takes hours and there is no indicator that anything is even happening
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>>60256134
>dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
I used
>cat /dev/sdb >/dev/sdc
as per a post I read saying it was faster. Do you know the difference?
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>>60255527
You can't copy and paste boot tables you dum dum.
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>>60255527
Just make symlinks from the C drive to another drive. For an intensive porpoises, your apps won't know the difference.
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>>60256520
dd is as fast as it goes. it takes that long because your drive read/write speeds aren't infinite.
try
dd if=/dev/sda | pv | dd of=/dev/sdb
if you really need some kind of progress shown
as far as i know there is no ETA, but you know the size of your drives and pv shows you how long it's been running and at what speed the copying takes place.
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