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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

I had a simple question: how to rescue a Windows hard disk to a new SSD?

The answer is ddrescue from a Linux USB stick, but the Windows user wasn't comfortable at the command line.

But if you Google it, you get:

  • insanely detailed geek pages. These contain the right answer! But not the specific right answer.
  • AI slop.

Eventually I just did it myself with ddrescue. But I got a first-hand experience of how fucking unusable search is now.

Oh, and Google is now showing AI slop answers at the top of searches in the UK.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

For people from the future:

I'm a fan of Clonezilla, which is a debian-derived live distro designed specifically to clone partitions as well as whole disks. If you're comfortable with how Linux represents devices, it's as close as you can get to training-wheels-included imaging for free.

BIG WARNING: Be sure to write down the BitLocker key before you begin, or else it'll be a bad time!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

insanely detailed geek pages. These contain the right answer! But not the specific right answer.

I had a windows problem once, so was looking through all that looking for an answer and saw somebody go 'I need to save my data, which is very important, so how do I fix this problem' and then they got a reply with 'follow these steps with step X making sure they would delete their data'. And this was before the whole era of AI slop so I fear how much worse it has gotten now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

@dgerard What kind of HD? I have at least 4, incl. 2 x 500GB, 1 x 1TB, that are not "seen" anymore by the system... as if the head was "locked" somehow...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The original is a 1TB mechanical hard disk, the new one is a 2TB SSD. I just copied the disk image with ddrescue and it works (and took 2 hours). Next step: expand the partition to 2TB with gparted.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

@dgerard But was it recognized before, but unreadable?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

They copied it with some weird enshittified Windows software but the resulting disk wouldn't boot, so I did it again with ddrescue and expanded the partition with gparted.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

@dgerard All mines go "tik tik tik tik tik..." but nothing more...