[ale] Cloning laptop drive didn't work

[Alex Carver]

Drive isn't failing, it's just slow. I've done this before in this very 
way and just don't quite know why this time the process isn't working.

On 2024-04-26 16:43, Ethan via Ale wrote:
> 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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