<div dir="auto">Format the new one and rsync.<div dir="auto">Unless this is a boot drive then dd the boot sector and /boot partition.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 26, 2022, 5:29 PM Narahari Lakshminarayana via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Friends:<br><br></div>I bought a new SSD drive of the size 512GB the inland brand from Microcenter.<br></div>I want to use that to replace my current laptop's 160 GB NON-SSD drive.<br><br></div>Is it a good idea to use Clonezilla to make an img file of the current disk and restore to the new SSD ?<br><br></div>OR<br><br></div>Is it faster and best to run the dd command and replicate bit-by-bit of the current drive to the new SSD drive ?<br><br></div>Please advise.<br><br></div>-N<br></div>
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