Disk Cloning

dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda bs=8096 count=100 conv=sync,noerror status=progress

To clone a drive, I use dd that is usually with any linux distro.

if = input device

of = output device

bs = blocksize

count = number of sectors to be copied

conv = additional options sync = keeps LBA synced if unable to read (will fill with zeros on target drive for sector it was unable to read) noerror = will not stop on error

status = progress, shows how much data as been copied so far.