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You can use the Windows 10 Download Tool (Or similarly named thing, sorry, |
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I can't find the details of it at this time) to download an ISO image |
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Combine that with the rufus program https://rufus.ie/ (I use the portable |
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one, personally) to create a Windows 10 USB installer stick. |
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On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 2:39 PM Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi Michael, |
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> Thanks for the response. Great info. |
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> The install Win 10 clean sounds wonderful if it works. With no DVD in |
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> this machine it sounds like I should investigate an install from USB if the |
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> machine supports it. It's an Asus gaming laptop circa 2008 so hopefully |
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> that works but I've never done it on this machine. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Mark |
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> On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 12:56 PM Michael Jones <gentoo@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Generally the way I've handled this situation in the past is like so |
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>> (this is written from memory, so expect gratuitous problems). |
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>> On the machine with the drive attached |
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>> mbuffer -i /dev/mydrive | xz -e -9 | mbuffer -O hostname:port |
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>> On a machine with storage space |
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>> mbuffer -I port -o /path/to/storage.xz |
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>> To make a backup. |
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>> In terms of cloning windows to another harddrive in general, as long as |
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>> the destination harddrive is large enough to fit the original drive without |
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>> issues, simply running: |
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>> dd if=/dev/original of=/dev/destination |
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>> (I prefer dcfldd, personally) |
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>> Is enough. Run gparted (the graphical version, for nice wizards) after, |
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>> and it'll fixup your partition table for you to match the new size, and you |
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>> can re-size any partitions you have to make them match as well. I do |
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>> exactly this all the time and have yet to have a problem. |
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>> As for windows 10 licensing, don't trust me on this blindly, but your |
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>> license should be tied to the hardware fingerprint of the laptop. So even |
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>> installing windows fresh on your new SSD should result in Windows |
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>> activating automatically. In fact, you might want to take this opportunity |
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>> to try that out, to get a completely fresh installation without the decade |
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>> of old cruft built up by window's lack of a package manager. |
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>> If it doesn't activate as soon as you plug in an ethernet cable, you can |
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>> just wipe your SSD and copy your old installation as discussed already. |
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>> On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 1:11 PM Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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 |
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>>> various reasons I want to move from a 10 year old laptop drive to a new SSD |
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>>> and am looking for guidance on I might do that. Win 10 is properly licensed |
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>>> but through a weird channel - it was Win 7 that M$ allowed to convert to |
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>>> Win 10 for free and I'm nervous that if the hard drive died I'd have to |
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>>> purchase a new license as the free conversion path likely doesn't exist |
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>>> anymore. |
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>>> |
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>>> Both drives are nominally 500GB. |
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>>> |
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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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>>> |
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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 |
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>>> 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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>>> |
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>>> The Linux RAID autodetect is from running Gentoo at some earlier time |
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>>> and probably doesn't need to be copied. I'm not at all sure what /dev/sde3 |
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>>> is or whether it's required to make M$ happy. |
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>>> The new SSD is unused and shows: |
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>>> |
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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 |
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>>> multiple 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 |
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>>> me toward some instructions I might try? |
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>>> |
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>>> Thanks, |
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>>> Mark |
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>>> |