Problem No. 1


I am trying to figure out how can I transfer information from one HDD that's in my laptop, to another HDD, that I plan on replacing the current one in my laptop with.

Is there something I can buy to make the HDD active, able to transfer files to?

Looking for something that's not too costly.
Regards,
KrUpTiOn
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On 01/11/19, Charles Stephenson said the following...

I am trying to figure out how can I transfer information from one HDD

that's in my laptop, to another HDD, that I plan on replacing the
current one in my laptop with.

Is there something I can buy to make the HDD active, able to transfer files to?

Depends on what is the type of drives you use.

Let's say both are SATA, you have multiple options.

There is drive duplicators, which I also use to mount ad-hoc drives and such. The price vary between 40$ and 100$. You plug both drives vertically and you can either mount them or copy the source to the target within a computer.
There is duplicators from various interface types too.

If it is SATA, you can always buy an USB to SATA adapter. These are cheap and only cost a few bucks. Then use dd to create an image and write the image on the new drive. I you can have both drives connected at the same time, making a direct copy is good too. It requires the target is exactly the same or larger.

You would them use something like: dd if=/dev/drive1 of=/dev/drive2 bs=4M

If the target is smaller, you have to do additional steps to reduce the file system on the source first before copying it on the target. This step is advanced and working on your original source drive can cause loss of data if something goes wrong.

You could create an image (with dd) and mount that image as a loop device,
then do the partition changes on the image before writing it to the target. I've never really done it myself but this could theoretically be possible to
do so.

I hope that helps you with your problem.

Cheers!

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I am trying to figure out how can I transfer information from one HDD that's in my laptop, to another HDD, that I plan on replacing the current one in my laptop with.

There is drive duplicators, which I also use to mount ad-hoc drives and such. The price vary between 40$ and 100$. You plug both drives
vertically and you can either mount them or copy the source to the
target within a computer. There is duplicators from various interface types too.

Was going to reply with pretty much the same answer as DC. One option you
could consider is a drive caddy that turns the bare HDD into an external
drive with USB connector then you can use something like 'dd' to mirror the internal drive to external.

Once the copy is done you can swap the drives around, and use your old
internal as portable storage.

RenMas

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Re: Re: Help!
By: Dave Cloutier to Charles Stephenson on Fri Jan 11 2019 07:04 am

I am trying to figure out how can I transfer information from one
HDD

Depends on what is the type of drives you use.

Let's say both are SATA, you have multiple options.

There is drive duplicators, which I also use to mount ad-hoc drives and such. The price vary between 40$ and 100$. You plug both drives vertically and you can either mount them or copy the source to the target within a

I'm trying to transfer stuff from my Laptop HDD to a bigger HDD for my laptop. I found this cool device that lets me turn the extra drive into a external USB drive, I ordered it off of E-Bay yesterday for only 10 bucks! I DO have to find the right software for linux that will copy EVERYthing as is to the other drive...
Regards,
KrUpTiOn
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Re: Re: Help!
By: Richard Lewis to Dave Cloutier on Sat Jan 12 2019 04:41 am

Was going to reply with pretty much the same answer as DC. One option you could consider is a drive caddy that turns the bare HDD into an external drive with USB connector then you can use something like 'dd' to mirror the internal drive to external.

That's exactly what I'm going to do, I ordered one lastnight, it'll be here in 5 days! :)

btw, what is 'dd'?
Regards,
KrUpTiOn
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I'm trying to transfer stuff from my Laptop HDD to a bigger HDD for my laptop. I found this cool device that lets me turn the extra drive into
a external USB drive, I ordered it off of E-Bay yesterday for only 10 bucks! I DO have to find the right software for linux that will copy EVERYthing as is to the other drive...

dd is your friend in that case. You can get the devices name using lsblk.

Then copying will be just to run: dd if=/dev/{srcdev} of=/dev/{tgtdev} bs=4M

This will copy block by block, from {srcdev} to {tgtdev}.

Once completed, you will have to expand your partitions on the target drive
to use it's full size, since the partitions will be sized from the source
drive size when originally created.

Cheers!

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On 2019 Jan 13 06:14:44, you wrote to Richard Lewis:

btw, what is 'dd'?

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