A clone is a replication, or an exact copy, of something.
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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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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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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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Fast copy from one TrueCrypt non-system volume to another
Is it possible to perform sector by sector copy of one TrueCrypt non-system volume to another? As I see, the clone software (Maxtor MaxBlast) does not recognize the mounted disks as the suitable ones. ...
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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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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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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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Copy a “Bad” Drive to a New Drive
I have a bad 500GB drive that has important data on it. The drive gives loads of Error 51 warning messages in the XP event logs but in disk management the drive shows as healthy. I'm wondering if I ...
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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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Clone a SCSI drive to an IDE drive?
Is it even possible to clone a SCSI hard drive to an IDE hard drive? If so what are some good free tools to do so?
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Hard drive seems to not exist when trying to clone
I want to copy my entire C drive, including Windows 7, to a new drive I bought* but the new one cannot be found.
I've tried both Clonezilla and Easeus Disk Copy but neither program recognizes the new ...
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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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How can I copy my windows 7 partition to a new drive, keeping the boot partition?
I want to copy my windows 7 partition onto a new hard drive (I've got a linux bootcd with fdisk, which I'm happy using), but I've spotted that there's a boot partition of ~200MB before my main windows ...
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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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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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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:
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| Data (D:\) | System (C:\) |
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Now, I just ...
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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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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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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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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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How do I copy/clone a dynamic disk in Windows 7?
I have some dynamic disks (or "partitions" but they are not really partitions) that I want to copy onto spare hard drives.
I tried using gpartd (and fdisk for that matter) from a linux live disc. All ...
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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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Should I enter my Office product key before running sysprep?
I'm planning on cloning a Windows XP install, and am a little confused about sysprep. I know that it blanks out the XP product key, but what about other software?
If I install Office 2007 and enter a ...
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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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How can I easily add a new hard drive as my boot drive?
I just bought a SSD to use as my boot drive. However, I don't really want to re-install all my different applications by hand.
Is there a way I can tweak the registry or something to simply "point" ...
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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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How do I restore the operating system using Acronis?
I have made a backup using Acronis 2010. And I've tested it on vmware.
And I'm having problems booting up the dual boot vm. After restoring from the .tib file. What do I do?What other software that ...
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How to clone or copy running windows 7 to child partition
Is there anyway to clone partition to partition in windows 7 for free using some kind of command line tool so that i can set block size to increase speed
i google and found some tools like dd for ...
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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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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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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, ...
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Cloning hard drive — data, operating system settings, everything [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Easiest way to copy or clone boot partition onto new hard drive
I am using Windows XP. My hard drive (Seagate 160gig Barracuda) is about to fail. Its already developed ...
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Copy all installed programs & files in a hard disk (which has 32 bit Windows 7) and clone/transfer it to another computer which has 64 bit Windows 7
I recently got a new PC which has a 64-bit Windows 7 installed. The current PC that I am using has a 32-bit Windows 7 installed.
I would like to know if there is a software that can copy all my ...
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Linux cloning tools
Could you please advice how to clone CentOS with all installed software to another box.
What tools should be used?
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Imaging new hard drive in Windows 7 laptop?
I'm upgrading my Windows 7 laptop to a new hard drive.
How can I clone or image the old hard drive over to the new hard drive, so that it looks like nothing has changed (other than the new hard ...
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Full system clone, snapshot using rsync
I have automated backups running on my ubuntu box using rsnapshot (rsync) basically following this tutorial.
My concern is how to restore if everything is lost. Since it does not seem that I can ...
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What open-source drive clone software out there have you successfully used on win2k3 server?
And, how many attempts did you have to make before you got it right? I'm about to do a 80gb to 80gb clone for archival purposes and want to make the best move here.
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How can I clone a protected HD?
I have a copy protected hd.
It works perfectly in a kiosk but when I try to clone it using clonezilla, ghost or any other sector to sector copiers I get i/o errors...
I think they've ruined some ...
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Unable to clone repository with Git
I am trying to clone a repository on my machine that I have just created on GitHub.
I am new to Git, but have been using SVN for a while. I've set up an RSA key as per instructions but am unable to ...
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What must be changed for cloned Linux systems?
When cloning Windows systems, it's fairly well-known that one should run sysprep before creating an image. This way, when the machine starts up, it will reconfigure itself for its new environment: ...
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How to copy a DVD on Mac
Is there any software (preferred free) which allows me to copy a DVD (Disk to Disk copy)?
I have installed Burn, but it does not seem to let me do what I need.
Thank you.
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Image copy Mac drive, how to do this?
How do you make an image of whole Mac disk drive and tranfer it to another Mac?
What is the best software to do this?
I am looking to make an exact duplicate copy of my machine to reload on a new ...
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Cloning Windows installation (while in use) to new drive, without leaving Windows
Is it possible to just copy and paste, or do I actually need to clone it at a lower level?
I've tried DriveImage XML, but it complains about the fact the source drive is in use.
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What is causing my newly built PC with Windows 7 to BSOD?
I recently built my own PC from parts and installed Windows 7 and I have been getting BSODs with various different stop codes.
The latest was 0x24, but I've also had 0xd1 and 0x1e. However, Windows ...
