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How to Clone Win7 from 512b sectors to 4096b sectors
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I'm using a new Thinkpad and I'm trying to upgrade the drive from a 250GB to a 640GB. I grabbed a WD Scorpio Blue and a ByteCC USB/SATA adapter. First I tried booting Linux and doing a dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdd bs=4M . This failed. The partition table was invalid after it was written. Normally thi…
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You are correct in that you need to do the cloning at the filesystem level, because you can't do it at a lower level (i.e. using ) if the disk geometry is completely different; but you must make sure to use a cloning utility which is compatible with…
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