On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 23:41:57 +0000 steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
On 10/02/15 17:57, Chris Walker wrote:
I've had to go back to this as I have another stick which despite doing all manner of work on it, refuses to be recognised by my car.Rather than copying a partition table, can I dd one drive to another (they're both 32GB sticks albeit sold by different companies) and still expect the drive to work? The two drives which work are PNY devices like these - http://www.scan.co.uk/products/32gb-pny-key-attache-usb-20-read-25mb-s-write... whereas the other disk is a 32GB stick from Maplins.
Provided that they're exactly the same size, or the destination is larger than the source, I would have thought it would work.
Suck it and see - what have you got to lose?
A USB stick? ;-)
I thought that if I took a dd image of the destination (the Maplin stick) I would be able to restore that if things didn't work out. If I then compare filesizes of the PNY disk and the Maplin disk, they're about a gig different with the PNY being larger. So it looks as though it won't work and I'll have to find another way.