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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Guidance on using Gentoo to clone a Win 10 system drive
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 19:11:18
Message-Id: CAK2H+eewMB7id-sRnwJ+x+gj_b7cK6mu=Np+f7qQkXy_9sd-Ew@mail.gmail.com
1 Hi all,
2 I haven't been here in a couple of years. IT's great to see some
3 familiar names posting. Cheers to all.
4
5 I have a laptop running Win 10 with no (working) DVD/CDROM. For various
6 reasons I want to move from a 10 year old laptop drive to a new SSD and am
7 looking for guidance on I might do that. Win 10 is properly licensed but
8 through a weird channel - it was Win 7 that M$ allowed to convert to Win 10
9 for free and I'm nervous that if the hard drive died I'd have to purchase a
10 new license as the free conversion path likely doesn't exist anymore.
11
12 Both drives are nominally 500GB.
13
14 The older hard drive fdisk info shows:
15
16 root@science:~# fdisk --list /dev/sde
17 Disk /dev/sde: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
18 Disk model: ASM1053E
19 Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
20 Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
21 I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
22 Disklabel type: dos
23 Disk identifier: 0xe0c5913d
24
25 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
26 /dev/sde1 63 45062324 45062262 21.5G 1c Hidden W95 FAT32
27 (LBA)
28 /dev/sde2 * 45062325 288063133 243000809 115.9G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
29 /dev/sde3 288063488 289247231 1183744 578M 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE
30 /dev/sde4 289249254 976768064 687518811 327.9G fd Linux raid
31 autodetect
32 root@science:~#
33
34 The Linux RAID autodetect is from running Gentoo at some earlier time and
35 probably doesn't need to be copied. I'm not at all sure what /dev/sde3 is
36 or whether it's required to make M$ happy.
37
38 The new SSD is unused and shows:
39
40 root@science:~# fdisk --list /dev/sdf
41 Disk /dev/sdf: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
42 Disk model: ASM1053E
43 Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
44 Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
45 I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
46 root@science:~#
47
48 The appear to have the same sector count and overall size.
49
50 I can make a 1TB drive available in my big machine and work over USB
51 (which is what I'm doing to get the info above) but I'm unclear how much of
52 this can be done automatically and how much I might need to do by hand.
53
54 As long as I don't hurt the old drive I can put data on the SSD multiple
55 times to get through the process in case I have trouble.
56
57 Does anyone have experience with this sort of issue and can you point me
58 toward some instructions I might try?
59
60 Thanks,
61 Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on using Gentoo to clone a Win 10 system drive Michael Jones <gentoo@×××××××.com>