How to clone drives using DD and GParted

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Want to replace a drive with a different drive? In this video I go over how DD and GParted can be used to clone drives of different sizes, and some of the details of whats going on with partitions when this happens.
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I love when people explain how to use core utilities instead of weird proprietary software. Thanks!

travis
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I appreciate when someone takes the time to not only explain what to do, but why we need to do it. Actually understanding the process helps me remember it in the future. Great tutorial, worked perfectly for me. Thanks!

HowdyFolksGaming
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I was cloning my Linux Lite from a 500G HDD to a 120G SSD. Unexpectedly, the Gparted bootable usb somehow didn't work on my laptop - boot failed by some firmware error - but I used a workaround - my Linux Lite OS live bootable usb, which contains Gparted and DD by default! Beside the booting, the rest part of the operations were the same with what has been demonstrated in your video, and it ended up with a success! I appreciate that you not only presented what the steps are, but also explained how it worked under the hood! Thank you so much for the tutorial!

haolu
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This is quite possibly the best tutorial and explanation of this process that I have seen ever. The theory is correct, the process simply works, and you are left with an understanding of why and how.

omardude
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Best explanation I've seen on the drive partitioning and copying/cloning subject!

iatheman
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Thank you very much!
i was needing to clone the OS from a laptop harddrive to an SSD
while searching about this process, i only found videos about proprietary software that was ""free"" (30 days trial before needing to buy it)
but i knew that Linux probably had such a feature built into it, so i took my bootable Ubunto USB stick, searched about drive cloning in Linux, and found your video, which solved my problem
the cloning was from a 500GB's HDD to a 500GB's SSD, so the entire process went on flawlessly and i didn't even needed to mess with disk partitions, again, thank you very much for your great tutorial on that subject!

Sheovion
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Thank you! I was able to move my 1TB Windows HDD into a 512GB SSD all thanks to this video. You easily helped explain the steps and their reasons for the migration. No more proprietary cloning software madness, good ol FOSS utils to save the day!

audiencebigg
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very nice video. Just need too add that before running dd check, check again and again which is the source drive and especially important which is the target drive. source drive must be specified in if= and target drive must be after of=. If you put it in wrong order or specify a different drive as target it will destroy your data. Never happened with me, but just for those who uses tool like dd first time - be very careful. In right hands dd is super useful tool which allows to copy any data to different drive, but if it used incorrectly it will be "disk destroyer".
For GParted it's also a powerful tool, but it has GUI, which means less likely to make a fatal mistake.

AngryPacman
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Your tutorial is the most compregensive and easy to follow. Tried a bunch of windows program to duplicate an iptv/vod server drive, but every time it failed to boot. When I found this linux based software I was sure it will do the job opposed to the Windows junk free programs. The trick was actualy the fix you did at the end with gdisk. Server is up and running again. Thank you!

stanislavtodorov
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Your a wizard and an absolute life saver, every other way of cloning seemed to fail I wish I found this 2 weeks ago. Honestly thank you so much, and for your detailed explanation of the tools!!

bostocked
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I finally stopped procrastinating and did my first clone with dd. I found it extremely straight forward and using the lsblk command, I could see exactly what and where each of my drives were, so for me, there was absolutely no confusion as to the source, the live and the destination. Your instructions were flawless and easy to follow and dd and gparted worked like a charm. It's a daunting process the first time round, but knowing whats happening while it's happening makes it a lot easier. And when that cloned drive just booted straight up (linux/win dual boot)...I was more than impressed. Shout out to you brother.... Thanks for your video and sharing your knowledge and obvious talent for these things.

belvederebaileycambodia
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Thanks for straightforward explained and demonstrations, that exactly what I need to know

xtalplanet
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It's evident you have a fundamental understanding of the Way of the Machine. Thx for sharing with us, your channel is a gem.

RedneckPythagorean
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I found the scenario you chose—cloning from a larger drive to a smaller one—really usefull. Most guides tend to focus on copying from smaller to larger drives, so your approach was refreshing. As an additional tip, you might want to consider using Gparted, which is available in most Linux distributions. If you already have a Live Linux distro pen drive, you can use it to resize partitions in a similar manner. Thanks for sharing!

jzgonzo
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This was a wonderful video. I am a computer tech but I learned several things that I didn't know about the drive utilities dd and gparted. Thank you so very much!

pcmman
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Great as usual. Inthe same line of the recovery/copy tools, one thing I recently discovered is Ventoy, you should make a video showing how to use one pendrive for everything. Anyway, just after finishing watching this video, I dropped the GParted iso that you just suggested. Great tool and great procedure!! Mate, I really enjoy all of your videos

JAVIERLLAMAS
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Came across this and tried it today going from 4TB to a 750GB drive, worked flawlessly! Thanks for the video.

Sapious
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I can't thank you enough. You saved me a lot of painful hours. I tried a bunch of propriety software and they limited what I could do unless I paid some money. I wish I found your video earlier. I would save even more time.

Elcientifiko
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A fantastically well put together explanation. This really is the number 1 tutorial for performing this commonly troublesome operation. Thank you.

pemburydidge
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Best video ever on DD and partition tables ! Thanks a lot 👍

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