HDD is going out on my laptop. Purchased a new one.
My new HDD arrived and I need to install all data from the existing drive that is wearing out.
Never done this before. Do I have to do anything particular to accomplish the task? I was given the following code to complete the task. dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=4096
I have an outside storage unit and have put the new drive in it. I have connected the USB cable to the computer. The existing drive is named /dev/sda and the new drive is named /dev/sdb just like the command I was provided says.
Do I have to format the new HDD? What I am copying has 2 OS's Kubuntu 14.04 and Win 7. Do I have to set any file system.
When I first made the connection, I opened a shell and typed in the following:
sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=4096 The following returned:
dd: failed to open '/dev/sdb': Is a directory
What do I do?
Never done this before. Do I have to do anything particular to accomplish the task? I was given the following code to complete the task. dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=4096
I have an outside storage unit and have put the new drive in it. I have connected the USB cable to the computer. The existing drive is named /dev/sda and the new drive is named /dev/sdb just like the command I was provided says.
Do I have to format the new HDD? What I am copying has 2 OS's Kubuntu 14.04 and Win 7. Do I have to set any file system.
When I first made the connection, I opened a shell and typed in the following:
sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=4096 The following returned:
dd: failed to open '/dev/sdb': Is a directory
What do I do?