[ale] Cloning laptop drive didn't work

[DJPfulio at jdpfu.com]

On 4/26/24 03:42, Alex Carver via Ale wrote:

> I made an image of the full drive and then dd'ed it to the SSD.
> Plugged it into the Toshiba and got the GRUB menu and the initramfs
> loaded. But then it just had all kinds of ATA timeouts and stopped in
> its tracks. I tried disabling ACPI and that didn't help.

dd isn't the best tool for this.  ddrescue is much better since it handles failures nicer and keeps trying to get the data.  I think the package name is gddrescue. There are two versions, perhaps one is a fork? IDK.

> If I plug the full stack of IDE adapter and SSD into a USB to IDE
> adapter and plug that into another computer I can mount the SSD and
> see all the files, no problem.

USB adapters can lie to the OS about the drive characteristics. Of course, we don't know this until later.  Of my 4 USB drive docks, only 1 of them lies, but it is a pain because that was the one I setup new storage through and copied all the data over using.  When it was time to put the HDD inside the case, all the drive parameters were different so all that work was for nothing.  I freaked out a bit, since it was a new 8TB WD Black that I'd setup and put about 2TB onto.

Anyway, something to consider.

> 
> I'm not sure what the issue is at this point because everything seems
> to be in place. Thoughts? 

Sometimes life is out to get you. It isn't being paranoid.  But I don't have any OTHER thoughts related to this topic.