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Ok here's the thing, I ordered a brand new laptop. It should be here sometime Monday or Tuesday. In the mean time I'm getting everything backed up. So what's the first thing you do to a brand new computer, you format the hard drive to get rid of winblows and all its bloatware. Basically I want to clone my ssd drive over to the new laptop when it arrives. This is something I have never done. Would it be easier to just do a clean install and move what files I wanna keep to the new one or clone the drive?
Either way works for me, just I installed a ton of tools some very large files. I play around with sdr# alot and have a alot of things I wanna keep pertaining to it. I have over 300GBs worth of data that's why I'm wondering if cloning would be better.
I found this:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mi … w_hardware
So gonna mark this as solved since this page answers my question, but I don't mind other peoples opinion on past experience if you have any to share feel free to post.
Last edited by Masstumor (2015-08-07 05:14:20)
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If it's just data, you can copy it over. You can reinstall applications and maybe clean up the settings you're using :-)
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That's what I was thinking, according to the page I was reading I need to do a clean install anyways before I can restore the data. So I may may just move the files like I always have. Not to mention the dd command would take a good while to run.
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Just make sure things are working on the new hardware before you nuke the old one.
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