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Hi all, |
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I haven't been here in a couple of years. IT's great to see some |
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familiar names posting. Cheers to all. |
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I have a laptop running Win 10 with no (working) DVD/CDROM. For various |
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reasons I want to move from a 10 year old laptop drive to a new SSD and am |
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looking for guidance on I might do that. Win 10 is properly licensed but |
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through a weird channel - it was Win 7 that M$ allowed to convert to Win 10 |
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for free and I'm nervous that if the hard drive died I'd have to purchase a |
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new license as the free conversion path likely doesn't exist anymore. |
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Both drives are nominally 500GB. |
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The older hard drive fdisk info shows: |
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root@science:~# fdisk --list /dev/sde |
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Disk /dev/sde: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors |
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Disk model: ASM1053E |
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Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes |
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Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes |
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I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes |
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Disklabel type: dos |
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Disk identifier: 0xe0c5913d |
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Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type |
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/dev/sde1 63 45062324 45062262 21.5G 1c Hidden W95 FAT32 |
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(LBA) |
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/dev/sde2 * 45062325 288063133 243000809 115.9G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT |
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/dev/sde3 288063488 289247231 1183744 578M 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE |
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/dev/sde4 289249254 976768064 687518811 327.9G fd Linux raid |
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autodetect |
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root@science:~# |
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The Linux RAID autodetect is from running Gentoo at some earlier time and |
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probably doesn't need to be copied. I'm not at all sure what /dev/sde3 is |
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or whether it's required to make M$ happy. |
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The new SSD is unused and shows: |
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root@science:~# fdisk --list /dev/sdf |
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Disk /dev/sdf: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors |
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Disk model: ASM1053E |
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Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes |
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Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes |
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I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes |
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root@science:~# |
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The appear to have the same sector count and overall size. |
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I can make a 1TB drive available in my big machine and work over USB |
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(which is what I'm doing to get the info above) but I'm unclear how much of |
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this can be done automatically and how much I might need to do by hand. |
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As long as I don't hurt the old drive I can put data on the SSD multiple |
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times to get through the process in case I have trouble. |
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Does anyone have experience with this sort of issue and can you point me |
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toward some instructions I might try? |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |