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Originally Posted by RickS
I reckon there is a fair chance of running into problems doing a raw disk copy unless both drives have exactly the same geometry. At the very least you are risking poor performance if the second disk has cylinder boundaries in different places.
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That's not the case anymore. Cylinder boundaries are an artificial construct in modern hard drives. Modern access modes in disk firmware (and as supported by your OS) obfuscate physical geometry.
I've cloned dozens (hundreds?) of times and not yet had a problem, including booting off the cloned drive many times.