A clone is a replication, or an exact copy, of something.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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Bootable Clone Hard Disk Drive Utility [duplicate]
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ?
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HD Duplicate utility [duplicate]
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Software to clone HFS+ partition [duplicate]
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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?
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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?
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Cloning in KVM-Qemu
How does kvm clone the qcow2 images? I couldn't find any documentation on the internals of the cloning.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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?
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Migrating Windows 7 to a new drive, cloning the encrypted HDD to SSD
I have laptop with Windows 7. The whole drive is encrypted with Bitlocker. I want to switch magnetic hard drive to SSD. How can I mirror the entire system onto the SSD with the LEAST amount of user ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Clone a SATA disk to external USB disk and then back to SATA disk [duplicate]
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 ...
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“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 ...
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How do I image my Windows XP install to move it to a new computer? [duplicate]
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 ...
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Image Hard Drive with Bad Sectors?
I have a hard drive with important data on it. I have Spinrite running right now and it has located lots of bad sectors so its pretty much toast. I would like to image the drive and get as much data ...
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Cloning Hard Drives - Remotely
I have two servers, A and B.
I would like to clone server A to B. A is running Linux, and they are both remote, I don't have a physical access to them
What is the best way to approach this?
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Advice on cloning disk
I'm going to buy a second disk for backup, the same size as my laptops. I want to mount it in a casing via usb and backup an entire hdd every soemtime. That's because I want the posibility to just ...
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Is it possible to clone system drive in Windows 7?
My current problem is that my Windows 7 system drive is unstable. I would like to try to clone this drive to the same type of disk (OCZ Vertex 2 120GB to OCZ Vertex 2 120GB) and replace the system ...
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Any recommendations for a good disk imaging software package for Windows XP, free if possible? [closed]
I've always used Ghost at work, but at home I don't have a copy.
Can anyone recommend some software which will image my main windows XP system partition to another partition ?
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Cloning/Ghosting computers that have LogMeIn installed
Good afternoon,
We prepare ghost images for each of the computers we manage. Basically we start with a running system (previous image), perform a number of manual changes to the system's ...
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Shadow copy to clone system volume on Windows XP
I am looking for a program that uses shadow copy to copy the contents of a Windows XP system volume that is running.
I.e. I want to clone the system volume with the following snags: (1) I want to be ...
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Quickly clone a microSD card
is there an easy and quick way to clone all data from one microSD card to another? I want to periodically backup contents of my phone card to a backup one, and as I have a lot of small files on the ...
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Cloning a hard drive and using it to boot on a different system
Can I clone a hard drive and use it to boot on a different system? Windows XP, from Intel to AMD.
I used HDclone and copied my HD. When I tried to boot up with the new hard drive in the AMD system, ...
