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