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   On Fri, 7/25/2025 8:55 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 10:01:09 -0400, Paul wrote:   
   >   
   >> The problem I have with this idea, is later if you buy a new hard drive,   
   >> and you want to clone over the drive (say using ddrescue), you would   
   >> also copy the portion of the file system that declares some blocks bad.   
   >   
   > This is why I always do file-level copies, rather than trying to “clone”   
   a   
   > drive. rsync is a great tool for this.   
   >   
   > I think Windows users have this assumption that, for OS installs at least,   
   > you must use some kind of “cloning” utility to transfer them, otherwise   
   > they won’t work.   
   >   
      
   Windows users should "clone", because nobody really understands   
   the permission model :-)   
      
   The C: partition has many more features applied to it, than Data   
   partitions do.   
      
      Paul   
      
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