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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
I had a simple question: how to rescue a Windows hard disk to a new SSD?
The answer is ddrescue from a Linux USB stick, but the Windows user wasnāt comfortable at the command line.
But if you Google it, you get:
Eventually I just did it myself with ddrescue. But I got a first-hand experience of how fucking unusable search is now.
Oh, and Google is now showing AI slop answers at the top of searches in the UK.
For people from the future:
Iām a fan of Clonezilla, which is a debian-derived live distro designed specifically to clone partitions as well as whole disks. If youāre comfortable with how Linux represents devices, itās as close as you can get to training-wheels-included imaging for free.
BIG WARNING: Be sure to write down the BitLocker key before you begin, or else itāll be a bad time!
I had a windows problem once, so was looking through all that looking for an answer and saw somebody go āI need to save my data, which is very important, so how do I fix this problemā and then they got a reply with āfollow these steps with step X making sure they would delete their dataā. And this was before the whole era of AI slop so I fear how much worse it has gotten now.
@dgerard What kind of HD? I have at least 4, incl. 2 x 500GB, 1 x 1TB, that are not āseenā anymore by the systemā¦ as if the head was ālockedā somehowā¦
The original is a 1TB mechanical hard disk, the new one is a 2TB SSD. I just copied the disk image with ddrescue and it works (and took 2 hours). Next step: expand the partition to 2TB with gparted.
@dgerard But was it recognized before, but unreadable?
@dgerard All mines go ātik tik tik tik tikā¦ā but nothing moreā¦
They copied it with some weird enshittified Windows software but the resulting disk wouldnāt boot, so I did it again with ddrescue and expanded the partition with gparted.