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I had a simple question: how to rescue a Windows hard disk to a new SSD?
The answer is ddrescue from a Linux USB stick, but the Windows user wasn't comfortable at the command line.
But if you Google it, you get:
Eventually I just did it myself with ddrescue. But I got a first-hand experience of how fucking unusable search is now.
Oh, and Google is now showing AI slop answers at the top of searches in the UK.
For people from the future:
I'm a fan of Clonezilla, which is a debian-derived live distro designed specifically to clone partitions as well as whole disks. If you're comfortable with how Linux represents devices, it's as close as you can get to training-wheels-included imaging for free.
BIG WARNING: Be sure to write down the BitLocker key before you begin, or else it'll be a bad time!
I had a windows problem once, so was looking through all that looking for an answer and saw somebody go 'I need to save my data, which is very important, so how do I fix this problem' and then they got a reply with 'follow these steps with step X making sure they would delete their data'. And this was before the whole era of AI slop so I fear how much worse it has gotten now.
@dgerard What kind of HD? I have at least 4, incl. 2 x 500GB, 1 x 1TB, that are not "seen" anymore by the system... as if the head was "locked" somehow...
The original is a 1TB mechanical hard disk, the new one is a 2TB SSD. I just copied the disk image with ddrescue and it works (and took 2 hours). Next step: expand the partition to 2TB with gparted.
@dgerard But was it recognized before, but unreadable?
They copied it with some weird enshittified Windows software but the resulting disk wouldn't boot, so I did it again with ddrescue and expanded the partition with gparted.
@dgerard All mines go "tik tik tik tik tik..." but nothing more...