Tagged Questions

The tag has no wiki summary.

learn more… | top users | synonyms

1
vote
1answer
21 views

Can I use Acronis to create and sync a mirror of my main drive?

Having had a complete disk failure the other day, and spending two days getting everything back to normal (read: i had backups of data, but re-installing apps and a million little configs were the ...
0
votes
4answers
56 views

Cloning 2.5" laptop HDD and SDD fast over multiple laptops?

I noticed that simple USB -data-transfer may encounter heat-problems because the newer models have no separate line for energy as some XYZ-other-cord. Today, I received a box full of Seagate FreeAgent ...
1
vote
1answer
60 views

Do Linux swap partitions need to be cloned?

I'm in the process of cloning my hard disk in order to test some unstable software. One of the partitions is Linux-swap. From my understanding, it can be used by the os as additional ram. So this ...
2
votes
2answers
92 views

Clone External Hard Drive Without Leaving a Record on the Drive Itself

I have an external hard drive which I need to make an exact copy of, but I need to do so without leaving any trace of the operation on the original drive. I'm primarily a Mac user, but I suspect the ...
3
votes
1answer
64 views

Can you successfully clone a Mac OS X boot volume directly to another larger volume with ddrescue?

Can you clone a Mac OS X boot volume (specifically a "Mac OS Extended, Journaled" a.k.a. JHFS+ volume) directly to another, larger volume using ddrescue or even dd, and have the target volume end up ...
0
votes
2answers
113 views

Ghost / Drive Clone Software [closed]

Possible Duplicate: How do I easily copy or clone a Windows boot partition onto a new hard drive? Not actually a question per-se but what cloning software do people use? I will personally ...
0
votes
0answers
16 views

Can I use the answer file before sysprep?

What I have is a computer that I have configured and 20 others that need this same configuration. I want to use imagex to get an image of the computer and then apply it to the others with minimal ...
0
votes
0answers
85 views

moving from a 512 to a 4K byte/sector hard drive [closed]

Possible Duplicate: suggestions for migrating a windows 7 install to a new 4K sector disk I have a windows 7 desktop with a 512 bytes/sector main drive. I bought a backup drive that is 4K ...
0
votes
2answers
70 views

cloning single HDD to dynamic HDD (RAID1) … what app can do it?

I have a 1TB O/S disk and just installed matching 2TB disks in a RAID1 configuration via Win7 Disk Management. Previously, I had used EASEUS Todo Backup to successfully and easily clone drives, but ...
1
vote
1answer
52 views

Can I use dd to clone two drives from two machines simultaneously?

To clarify, I have two machines: Machine1 and Machine2. Each machine has 2 disks (Machine1 has Disk1-1 and Disk1-2; simiarly, Machine2 has Disk2-1 and Disk2-2). Can I use 'dd' to clone Disk1-1 to ...
1
vote
2answers
198 views

How do I make a VMDK format virtual hard drive from a physical partition on a disk?

I have a 320 GB HDD, which actually only has an 80 GB NTFS format partition which was being used by a Windows 7 system ... I want to create a VMDK format clone of this partition, so that I can use it ...
1
vote
2answers
114 views

Clone Windows partition from Linux

So I've got a 120 GB Intel SSD, with a partition for Windows and another for Ubuntu. Ubuntu is my main OS, Windows is for gaming. But now I'm looking to install Mac OS X, and I'd like it to be on the ...
0
votes
1answer
97 views

How to clone a HDD and then use the clone with VMware (so that Windows works!)?

I have a system on which Windows 7 is installed, and I am trying to make a clone of its HDD image, which I then want to use in my main PC with VMware, so that I can boot Windows 7 off the cloned HDD. ...
1
vote
1answer
136 views

Bootable Clone Hard Disk Drive Utility [closed]

Possible Duplicate: How do I easily copy or clone a Windows boot partition onto a new hard drive? My computer's 1TB hard drive failed not too long ago and I got a replacement from Western ...
1
vote
1answer
40 views

How to fix clone problems

I recently cloned (using Ghost 15.0) my 200gb C drive to 500gb Z(in a USB attached enclosure). After the clone successfully? ended, I did have 2 duplicate drives. After removing power and battery, I ...
1
vote
4answers
60 views

Custom system restore DVD?

I am looking for a way to make a clone of a partition on a DVD where the client will actually be able to restore the partition himself without much hassle. Any ideas ?
0
votes
2answers
64 views

HD Duplicate utility [closed]

Possible Duplicate: How do I easily copy or clone a boot partition onto a new hard drive? I have two hard drives, one is empty and one is with data, and I want to clone one to other - 1:1 ...
2
votes
1answer
230 views

Is there a way to clone an NTFS hard drive but leave some files out?

I'm trying to find a nice way to do backups of my Windows 7 Media Center machine. Ideally I'd like to take periodic snapshots of the entire hard disk, but leave some files out of the selection. For ...
0
votes
1answer
33 views

Why does disk clone show a wrong new disk size?

In Ubuntu maverick, i cloned from a 6 GB USB drive to a 40 GB SSD drive. The USB drive was at 99% full at the time i did it. everything ran fine and the new system boots up great. It occurs when I ...
2
votes
2answers
80 views

Why is logging in to a website affecting two different computers?

I have two Asus all-in-one desktops running Windows XP Pro SP3. I set one up perfectly for my needs, so I decided to use Clonezilla to clone it's HDD to the other one. Everything went well, but now ...
0
votes
0answers
200 views

Software to clone HFS+ partition [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Best program to clone partition I need to clone/backup an entire partition from a Mac Drive, is there any software that can clone the partition for restoring later on? ...
3
votes
2answers
604 views

can Windows 7 clone the OS HDD to new SSD?

can Windows 7 clone the OS HDD to new SSD? i.e have a new SSD to introduce for the main OS in my windows 7 PC, and it is of a different size to my existing HDD...
0
votes
1answer
77 views

no internet in browsers after cloning computer's MAC address to router

Looks like my ISP has a MAC address filter on their end, hence newly installed wifi router was being blocked until I did a MAC address clone from PC to router using in-built function in the router's ...
0
votes
2answers
131 views

Have 3 Monitors Display the same thing? (WinXP)

I have a setup in which there is a Computer running windows XP, with 3 monitors plugged into it, with a "Matrox Millennium P750" Graphics card. What I want is to enable mirroring of ALL THREE ...
0
votes
2answers
68 views

restore a smaller hard drive 320GB image to a larger harddrive 1TB

I want to transfer my current system hard drive to a larger hard drive. Doing so, I thought of creating an image of my system hard drive which is 320 GB in size. Would I be able to restore this ...
0
votes
3answers
276 views

Copying Windows 7 to a new SSD drive?

I've upgraded my hard drive to a SSD (Solid State Drive) - whats the easiest way to copy my previous version of Windows 7 to the new SSD?
0
votes
2answers
107 views

New Hard Drive not recognized on boot

I am upgrading the hard drive on my Dell Precision M4400 laptop. The current drive is a Seagate Momentus 7200 80GB. The new drive is a Hitachi 5K500 250GB. --> Both are SATA. I have an external USB ...
2
votes
1answer
242 views

Can I resume an interrupted disk image done with dd?

I am going to reinstall my system and I want to backup it first. There is an 80 GB HDD with Ubuntu and 750 GB HDD on which I want to put image. So, I run a live CD and use dd to transfer my sda to ...
0
votes
1answer
57 views

Best Tool to clone/detect system environment for setup/development testing?

we develop web apps which are tied to biztalk and usually require setup and web config updates on the client side. the problem that I'm seeing quite often is that our own testing/setup would be fine ...
2
votes
2answers
63 views

Can Windows 7 automatically maintain a clone of another directory?

I'm working on a Git repo for a client and I want to keep my client repos separate from my Apache htdocs folder. I want to work on the repo files here: C:\Web\Clients\repolocation And whenever I ...
5
votes
2answers
426 views

How can I transfer Windows from a partition of an existing hard drive to a new (smaller) SSD?

I have a 500 Gb hard drive currently split into two partitions: +---------------------+--------------+ | Data (D:\) | System (C:\) | +---------------------+--------------+ Now, I just ...
0
votes
1answer
134 views

What's the easiest way to clone a MacBook Pro drive with both Mac OS and Windows 7 installed?

I have a mid 2009 13" MacBook Pro with the 160Gb drive split in half running both Mac OS and Windows 7 through bootcamp. I'm planning to replace the hard drive for a 750Gb model and I would like to ...
1
vote
0answers
52 views

Cloning in KVM-Qemu

How does kvm clone the qcow2 images? I couldn't find any documentation on the internals of the cloning.
2
votes
5answers
440 views

Clone hard drive to another, smaller hard drive

Is there a good tool/program that allows me to clone a system drive to another, smaller hard drive? I've bought a new 64GB SSD drive and would like to move my current Windows 7 Professional 64-bit ...
2
votes
1answer
106 views

Scheduled Push Changes To Local Git Repository (Ubuntu)

Boring Background - Summary: I know we're not using GIT properly!. This started as a small hobby project and has spiralled - my company uses Git to track/manage changes to a bespoke web-based software ...
1
vote
1answer
129 views

Using a Snow Leopard disk image (clone) on a Tiger Computer

I've got a computer running Tiger that is becoming unbearably slow, pinwheeling at the slightest activity. I've tried to create a backup using Super Duper and it won't even create one due to the i/o ...
3
votes
2answers
240 views

Disk copy of failing drive with Fedora 14

I have a WD disk drive of 1 Tera Byte capacity with Fedora 14 installed. On it I also have Virtual Box with a Windows XP guest installed. Now BIOS startup and Fedora is reporting that disk failure ...
1
vote
1answer
92 views

Advice for attempting to get data from a hard disk by putting it in a freezer

One of my hard drives on a RAID0 setup failed and I have basically nothing to lose. There's a trick that seems to be more than a myth that involves taking a hard disk, sealing it in a bag and freezing ...
1
vote
1answer
137 views

partitioning a cloned hard drive which is bigger then the source hard drive

If I clone my 20 GB hard drive on to a 150GB hard drive using Norton Ghost, what partitioning does the extra 130 GB receive and how can I make use of this extra space if it isn't partitioned?
4
votes
3answers
1k views

Does cloning a hard drive also copy over errors like bad sectors?

For example, I have Windows 7 on a hard drive where SMART reports "many bad sectors". If I buy a new hard drive, and attempt to clone over Windows to the new hard drive, will that fix the problem so I ...
5
votes
2answers
621 views

How to clone entire VirtualBox OS to a new PC (real-hardware)?

The situation is; I am running a web server (Ubuntu 10.10 server) on virtualbox v.4 inside Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop and now I want to clone entire web server on my brand new PC. Please help me with this, ...
0
votes
2answers
64 views

Can an in-use computer be cloned

I am looking to clone several servers periodically as part of a backup scheme. Is it possible to clone a server that is in use using clonezilla or other foss product? One of these servers is running ...
2
votes
2answers
433 views

Create bootable clone Windows 7 while running

I'm issued a SafeBoot encrypted computer at work, and I'd like to decrypt, clone, and then reinstall with something cross-platform like TrueCrypt. In order to have a clone that's useful at all, I need ...
1
vote
2answers
66 views

Extracting from VirtualBox or VMWare vHDD

I have VirtualBox installed in my system. I installed Windows XP Pro SP3 in VB. Then installed all the applications I need, ie. MS Office, Winamp etc. Now, if the OS I use crashes, Can I extract the ...
1
vote
2answers
174 views

How to copy most of a Linux filesystem onto a new drive?

I am getting a SSD and I'd like it to become my new Linux boot drive. However, it is smaller than my current hard drive's root Linux partition, so I'd like to copy over the filesystem and exclude some ...
2
votes
1answer
262 views

How to turn Google chrome into firefox clone

Ok I'm addicted to firefox, BUT I cannot be blind: chrome way to handle webpages (pre-loading, rendering and other features) is great. I was thinking to use this browser, however it's quite hard ...
0
votes
3answers
266 views

Trouble cloning a Macbook Pro hard drive

I am trying to upgrade the 250GB hard drive in my MacBook Pro (early 2008 model) to a 750GB drive. I have connected the new drive via an external USB enclosure. The drive is recognized fine, I can ...
0
votes
2answers
325 views

Clone a SATA disk to external USB disk and then back to SATA disk [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Easiest way to copy or clone boot partition onto new hard drive I need to clone a SATA disk from a Windows 7 computer to an external USB disk. After that I will replace ...
1
vote
1answer
1k views

“A disk read error occurred” when booting XP disk image in VirtualBox

I'm trying to boot an XP installation cloned into VirtualBox from a real drive. I'm getting the message A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart whenever* I try to boot the ...
1
vote
2answers
317 views

How do I image my Windows XP install to move it to a new computer? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Move Windows XP to a new PC I have a PC running Windows XP x86 and I want to transfer the current configuration to another PC. My idea was to copy my info to an empty ...

1 2 3