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Clone external hard drive to internal hard drive

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The hard drive failed on my new laptop so I installed Ubuntu 14.04.2 on an external hard drive and have been using it for the past 3 months. Now that the laptop manufacturer had sent me a new hard drive I want to clone whats on external hard drive to the internal hard disk.
I'm looking for steps to take to do this correctly.

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answered 2 Years ago damomnning · Accepted Answer

You could use dd, from a live CD open a terminal an type:

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=64K

Just replace /dev/sda with your external hardrive name and /dev/sdb with your internal hardrive name.