[ale] Cloning laptop drive didn't work

[Ethan]

If you ask Scott Moulton nicely in DC404, he may be able to give you some
help getting your data :-)

Sent from my mobile. Please excuse the brevity, spelling, and punctuation.


On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 5:57 PM DJPfulio--- via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> 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.
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