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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Hello Charles!

11 Jan 2019 00:46, Charles Stephenson wrote to ]:

Problem No. 1

42

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.

if its linux ?

tarball it

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

pariton magic

Looking for something that's not too costly.

write your own problem ?


Regards Benny

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Re: Help!
By: Benny Pedersen to Charles Stephenson on Wed Apr 22 2020 08:09 am

Hello Charles!

11 Jan 2019 00:46, Charles Stephenson wrote to ]:

Problem No. 1

42

*GRIN*
right, more like 42,125,345,245!

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

I wish there was a program in linux that could take advantage of my vast amount of google cloud space.

one in

my laptop with.

if its linux ?

tarball it

Good idea

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

pariton magic

Is there a linux version??

Looking for something that's not too costly.

write your own problem ?

I WISH! I am planning on learning pascal. Might be a good time to do it while in lockdown
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Hello Charles!

23 Apr 2020 16:56, Charles Stephenson wrote to Benny Pedersen:

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

pariton magic

Is there a linux version??

sysresqueuecd, install this on usb stick, boot it, now tarball it from the harddisk you like to recovery data from

google it

and paragon magic is linux aswell but needs gui on linux, just like it does on windows, windows version handle linux partion natively

other options instll e2filesystem on windows, mount linux partions natively and backup data

what is best for you work depends on what data to recovery


Regards Benny

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Re: Help!
By: Benny Pedersen to Charles Stephenson on Mon May 25 2020 09:08 pm

sysresqueuecd, install this on usb stick, boot it, now tarball it from

the

harddisk you like to recovery data from

google it

and paragon magic is linux aswell but needs gui on linux, just like it does on windows, windows version handle linux partion natively

other options instll e2filesystem on windows, mount linux partions natively and backup data

I paid for Insync a few months ago. It 'kinda' worked. One day it stopped making backups to my google drive. I'm still looking for a backup (gui based, and can be ran unattended) that I can make backups from linux to google drive. --- SBBSecho 3.11-Linux
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Hello Charles!

27 May 2020 18:43, Charles Stephenson wrote to Benny Pedersen:

I paid for Insync a few months ago. It 'kinda' worked. One day it stopped making backups to my google drive. I'm still looking for a backup (gui based, and can be ran unattended) that I can make backups from linux to google drive.

----- dropbox.ebuild begins -----
* net-misc/dropbox
Available versions: 94.4.384^ms ~96.4.172^ms ~97.3.451^ms ~97.4.467^ms
IUSE (all versions): X +librsync-bundled selinux
Best versions/slot: 94.4.384^ms
Homepage: https://www.dropbox.com/
Find open bugs: https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=net-misc%2Fdropbox
Description: Dropbox daemon (pretends to be GUI-less)
License: BSD-2 CC-BY-ND-3.0 FTL MIT LGPL-2 openssl dropbox

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then automate dropbox to copy data to gdrive

will you really sit there and see it sync ? :)

best option with non maintained is to get synology nas, and use cloud sync there


Regards Benny

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Re: Help!
By: Benny Pedersen to Charles Stephenson on Thu May 28 2020 01:01 am

----- dropbox.ebuild begins -----
* net-misc/dropbox
Available versions: 94.4.384^ms ~96.4.172^ms ~97.3.451^ms ~97.4.467^ms IUSE (all versions): X +librsync-bundled selinux
Best versions/slot: 94.4.384^ms
Homepage: https://www.dropbox.com/
Find open bugs: https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=net-misc%2Fdropbox Description: Dropbox daemon (pretends to be GUI-less)
License: BSD-2 CC-BY-ND-3.0 FTL MIT LGPL-2 openssl dropbox

----- dropbox.ebuild ends -----

then automate dropbox to copy data to gdrive

will you really sit there and see it sync ? :)

best option with non maintained is to get synology nas, and use cloud

sync

I have dropbox too, but I don't have a lot of space with it. I have 4 gigs on google cloud that I'm paying for. I got a package deal with something else I bought a few years back. I've 'tried' a few shareware linux backup programs. there WAS one I wish I could remember the name. it had options for google drive, but was only available if you paid for it. I was tempted to pay, but I'd have to have pay for something only to find out it doesn't work.
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