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-- Eero 2017-02-22 15:26 GMT+02:00 Lucio Crusca <lu...@sulweb.org>: > Il 22/02/2017 09:18, Lucio Crusca ha scritto: > >> the following command to copy the disk contents: >> >> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb status=progress bs=4K >> >> > P.S. I've just tried cloning again with the SSD in the notebook and the > HDD in the external USB/SATA adapter, this time booting Ubuntu from USB > instead of CD media. This time the command was > > dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/sda status=progress bs=4K > > Before rebooting I checked that the first ~400MB of data had been > correctly copied with these commands: > > dd if=/dev/sdc of=./test1 bs=4K count=102400 > dd if=/dev/sda of=./test2 bs=4K count=102400 > cmp test1 test2 > > and I got no output from cmp, that means the two files are equal. Upon > rebooting I got the same error again. > >