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I have an external 500 GB HDD which contains Windows 10 with Bootcamp. There are two partitions on it, one called BOOTCAMP (this is NTFS) with Windows installed on it an another called NO NAME (this is FAT32) containing a folder called EFI.
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Only 50 GB is used on this entire 500 GB hard drive, which is a waste.
I also have a 120 GB hard drive, and I want to transfer all the data from the 500 GB one to this 120 GB one, to free up the 500 GB one for other things.
I've tried Disk Utility's 'Restore' function and Carbon Copy Cloner but neither worked because neither can write to NTFS and both try copying files rather than bit-by-bit, so both will fail to write to an NTFS partition. Also CCC does not allow to copy an entire hard drive, it wants me to select one partition to copy from. I want to copy both partitions (BOOTCAMP and NO NAME) at the same time to make sure things are identical.
I've read that Terminal can do a bit by bit clone. This is the command I tried (after taking note of the correct disk names 'disk2' and 'disk3'):
sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk2 of=/dev/rdisk3 bs=1m conv=noerror,sync
I did a test using two USB sticks but it says 'Device is busy' or something like that and refuses to continue, and I suck at Terminal so I don't know what to do.
I've also read that the destination must be at least the size of the source device for a bit-by-bit copy, which in my case isn't.
How could I simply clone one hard drive to another, without running into problems about the destination drive being smaller, without issues with writing to NTFS on Mac, and while preserving the bootability of the drive?
I can also boot into Windows but then I'd be cloning the drive I'm booting from, which is probably a bad idea. I could also create a bootable USB of some cloning software and use that, so I'm open to that as well. Though I'd prefer to do this with Terminal, if it's even possible.
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