Last time I tried cloning a drive it failed miserably and I was stuck doing everything manually and took forever

    • @PrecisePangolin@lemmy.ml
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      21 year ago

      They can still boot to a live linux usb and dd the drive from there. I’ve done this twice to move to larger ssd’s. Then just adjust the partition to use the rest of the space with gparted.

    • @Corngood@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      It’s a totally valid approach. Most of the answers in this thread involve booting some non windows thing, and running a tool that will do exactly this behind the scenes.

      Edit: there are also a lot of much more terrible answers that involve file-level copying that will definitely not work.