How do I move my OS from one hard disk to another?

[Renowa558]

Recently I bought a SSD and now that I've installed it, I want to know how to move my windows from my existing HDD to my SSD.

 

[manofchalk]

It is possible, but its generally recommended you just do a fresh install on the SSD.

 

[imrul]

this is what I used: http://dcfldd.sourceforge.net/
the command i used was the following:

"dcfldd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=32M" without the quotes

"if" is the source, "of" is the destination, "bs" is the block size. for usb 2.0 connections, a block size of 32M seems optimal, if they're both sata, you can possible try 64M or 128M size blocks

 

[imrul]

It is possible, but its generally recommended you just do a fresh install on the SSD.

That's all just a bunch of fear mongering. There's nothing wrong with cloning an hd if you do it correctly.

 

[Renowa558]

Best answer selected by Renowa558.

 

[TheMaudDib]

If its going into a different system. Sysprep!