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A clone is a replication, or an exact copy, of something.

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How to transfer unallocated space to C: partition on Windows 10 after booting up a clone?

I hope I've come to the right place. Recently, I bought a 1 TB SSD that I switched out with my old 256 GB SSD. I put a bootable clone of the 256 GB drive on the 1 TB drive. However, my C: partition ...
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Clone of laptop HDD to SSD fails

I recently decided to update my wifes old Compaq laptop by adding more memory, which was very easy and now want to replace the clunky old HDD with a Crucial BX500 SSD. Using the Crucial version of the ...
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How to clone my VirtualBox guest Ubuntu on Mac host to a bootable USB?

I have a guest Ubuntu running as a VM via VirtualBox on my host Mac. I'd like to "clone" this Ubuntu to a USB, as a backup, and be able to boot either as a VM or even my Mac eventually. ...
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Github permission denied while cloning a repository

I am learning github and I started today .At first everything went fine and I was able to clone a repository then commit and push changes but now the second repository is not working I am not able to ...
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Is it possible to git clone a certain directory instead of cloning the whole repository?

The aim is to clone https://github.com/opower/sensu-metrics-relay/tree/master/lib/sensu/extensions instead of the whole directory. git clone https://github.com/opower/sensu-metrics-relay/tree/master/...
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Cloning a laptop drive with bootable Windows installation

I have a laptop (Acer Swift 3) where I am trying to replace its 123GB M.2 drive with a larger 256GB drive. Ideally I want to clone the drive, including the Windows 10 installation. Since the laptop ...
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Cloning a128GB SSD onto a 120GB SSD

tl;dr I cloned a dual-boot 128GB SSD onto a 120GB SSD. Linux works fine, Windows doesn't. What do? I have an old Thinkpad going on for 9 years with an 128GB Toshiba SSD that I've wanted to replace ...
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"winload.efi" missing or contains errors? New windows install on SSD

Hi I've just installed a new SSD. I then made a windows boot usb from the media creation tool via Microsoft. I then installed Windows 10 to the ssd. Once I tried booting to the SSD I got the error ...
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How to clone a single SSD to a 2 SSD RAID0?

This is the opposite to this: How do I clone a RAID 0 array to a single disk? I have a single SSD of 128GB, and I want to move it to 2x240GB SSD in RAID0. The reason: My windows is installed in ...
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Make Windows bootable after copying from one partition to another

I have recovered Windows7 from rescue DVD, that came together with my laptop. The recovery re-partitions the SSD drive as to factory defaults, but I would like to change that. More exactly, after ...
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eth0 not starting on boot after Virtualbox clone

After cloning my CentOS VM in Virtualbox (I used the Reinitialize the MAC address of all network cards option), the original and the clone VM both now has 127.0.0.1 as their IP. Anyone knows how to ...
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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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OSX: How can I clone a larger hard drive to a smaller one?

I'm replacing my spinning disk drive with a smaller SSD, because it should make my system much faster[1]. The data I have on the larger drive will fit on the smaller one. So far, I've done the ...
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Moving Windows 10 installation to another drive

There are a lot of questions like this, but given the specific circumstances I am adding this one as a new question as there are some specific issues that need to be tackled. The steps that got me to ...
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Cloning on partition

I would like to clone my windows 10 from my SSD to my HDD. My HDD has 2 partitions, one with my data and one free. I would like to clone windows on the empty partition of the HDD drive. Can I do ...
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Git clone on an ovh host server

I want to do a git-clone from an SSH connection, on an ovh host-server, but it does not work. I'm using a terminal from my Mac. Here's the command I entered: git clone ssh://[email protected]/www/ (...
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Clone laptop SSD to bigger SSD via USB HDD - Windows 7

What would be the easiest way to do the above, having in mind that the usb HDD is not empty (but it has more than enough room for the SSD contents) and that it doesn't have a OS, and also, that I don'...
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Multiboot a cloned drive with windows

I have cloned a windows installed drive from an old hard disk to an empty space(f:) of a new hard disk, the new hard disk already has a windows bootable c: drive. The new hard disk now has, a ...
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Cloning the current SSD notebook windows to a larger one without buying extra hardware

This question maybe repeated but I didn't find the answer I looking for in the other threads. I have 2 HDD in my notebook: SSD 128GB and consist of the windows partition HDD 1 TB I want to replace ...
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Cloned windows will not boot

Windows startup repair is not effective bootrec /scanos finds 1 installation bootrec /fixmbr returns success status bootrec /fixboot says access denied bootrec /rebuildbcd finds 1 installation If I ...
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Transferring an existing Windows disk from a dead PC to another one and avoiding reinstall of applications [duplicate]

(this question is really a follow-on from this question) I have a dead Dell computer where the cause of death did not involve or damage the hard drive. If I had identical replacement hardware, I ...
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What does "cloning a repository" mean, and why is it claimed to be a necessary step to install this PHP library?

Usage After cloning this repository (git clone https://github.com/naneau/php-obfuscator) and installing the dependencies through Composer (composer install), run the following command to ...
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How can I clone a hard drive directly to a vdi image

I would like to make a VirtualBox .vdi image out of my hard drive. I've found howto's online that describe doing this by first usind DD to create a .raw image, then using VBoxManage to convert the ....
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Small SSD to large SSD cloning, why isn't it allocating remainder of space?

I'm upgrading from a 120gb PNY SSD to a 500gb Samsung 850 SSD. I cloned the 120gb SSD using EaseUS Todo Backup onto the larger SSD, but it seemed to copy the setup of my smaller drive, so on my ...
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Cloning HDD to SSD without Free Space

I'm partitioning my 1TB SSD to allow me install Mountain Lion, Yosemite, and Catalina on the same drive. I'd like all my files to be on the Catalina partition, apart from specific software which only ...
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Wanted: SATA SSD cable to m.2 slot

As a Christmas present, I received two Samsung Evo SSDs that plug into SATA ports. Due to them being Samsung, if I was to want to clone data from one drive to another, I must clone the data on my ...
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Clone physical disk to VDI virtual disk (VirtualBox)?

I'm looking for a way to clone sector by sector of my physical disk to my VDI virtual disk. As I was reading, some do not recommend the use of dd for this. If I can not use dd to copy sector by ...
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Cloning system nightmare with Windows 8.1

I am running Windows 8.1 that was initially a Windows 8 OEM from an ASUS Q501L laptop. I first used Macrium Reflect and then Acronis True Image to fully clone my current hard drive onto an SSD. Both ...
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Direct Clone or Disk Image using Carbon Copy Cloner?

Previously was using Carbon Copy Cloner to back up to disk images on an external USB HDD, and thought that disk images were the only way. Having set up CCC again to clone onto a new external HDD ...
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How to clone HDD to SSD and fix all potential performance issues

I want to clone my existing HDD with Win7 to a brand new SSD, ideally using dd on a live Ubuntu CD. The SSD is bigger, so no problems shrinking. The HDD has two partitions. My partition start offset ...
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HDD -> SSD Clone [Insufficent storage]

I'm cloning a HDD with Windows 7 to SSD with "sector by sector clone", but I'm having insufficient storage error. It only shows when I tick "sector by sector clone". How do I solve this? I already ...
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Cloning 2.5" laptop HDD and SSD 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 ...
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Cloning fail and missing SSD volume

I have WIn10 and a Samsung 250GB SSD. Since the SSD was almost full I bought another to use for extra storage. I followed the Samsung instructions for cloning but it was VERY slow, would have taken ...
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Clone Windows 10 to Multiple PC [duplicate]

As Windows 7 support end soon, I am planning to have all PCs to have clean install of Windows 10. But installing them one by one on every PC is very time consuming and I am thinking to take this ...
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Non-functioning disk image on SSD but working on HDD

I recently tried to upgrade a laptop by replacing the HDD by an SSD, but I am running into some trouble. Background: I am fairly familiar with cloning and disk imaging (I use Macrium Reflect and have ...
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Why does Windows Search "Indexing Options" select the wrong drive if it's cloned?

I cloned a Windows 10 HDD to a Samsung SSD using "Samsung Data Migration Software", then installed a fresh copy of Windows 10 on the SSD. The SSD is now C: and the HDD is D:. When in Control Panel > ...
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I cloned a hard disk drive to an SSD with EaseUS’s but I did not select: “Optimize for SSD.” Will this cause issues?

I recently bought a new SSD and cloned my hard drive using EaseUS Todo Backup. However, when I cloned the drive I forgot to select “Optimize for SSD.” There was very little on the hard drive besides ...
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I messed up my neighbors wifi

I messed up my neighbors Wifi. My neighbors let me use their Wifi, and it wasn't working right, and I read something that said to clone your MAC address. I typed in the IP address on Chrome and was ...
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Clone Linux system preserving/reconfiguring network interfaces

The problem When I clone a Linux OS on a different device (but exact same architecture), the ethernet interfaces will be called differently (e.g. device A: eth0, eht1; device B: eht2, eth3). It's ...
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Debian 10 disk clone to lower sized disk

I am trying to clone my Debian 10 disk image that is currently installed on a 1TB HDD. I have resized the Linux filesystem Partition to 16GB and the rest is unallocated. The allocated space is at the ...
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How to clone an SD card for use with smaller SD cards?

I have an SD card of 16gb that I want to clone and have to send to another individual with a 16gb card. There's a problem however where my brand of card must be slightly larger than his by a few mb ...
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Trying to backup a corrupted dynamic hdd

I think one of my drives is starting to fail. Sometimes it becomes unavailable all of sudden, and when I try to access files on that specific drive, File Explorer tells me it's an invalid path. Ran ...
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Can cheap Arduino Nano clones infect or damage my computer?

I recently purchased several Arduino Nano v3 clones from a merchant on AliExpress. I got them for around $2.00 each. I'm aware of the possibility that they may arrive damaged or just not working. ...
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How to clone a virtual Windows disk to a physical disk on VMware - I changed ownership of my host's Windows disk by accident

I did not pay attention, to the following VMware warning, when mounting the drive as writable. Here's what I was trying to do: I was planning to mount a 16 GB VMDK file with Windows installed on it ...
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Pre-Clone task in mercurial when cloning

May I know if we can add a script or some hg-related file in our repository so that when that branch is being cloned it should execute a task. In my case I need to take some files from git repository ...
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How to clone a Hard Drive to a slightly smaller Hard Drive?

I have a hard drive which is 153 GB with 116 GB free space. I would like to clone this drive to a hard drive which is a 149 GB big (this is the largest hard drive I have... It would be typical that my ...
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How do you make a drive bootable that should already be bootable

How do you make a SSD bootable after cloning it from a working Windows 7 HDD? Every time I reboot the Samsung NP-RV510 laptop with only the cloned SSD, I get the same error message for the past two ...
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Windows no longer starts on HDDs / SSDs cloned from McAfee encrypted HDDs / SSDs

As suggested in Considerations when using imaging software with Endpoint Encryption software and reported by many experts in similar threads ( e.g. Clone McAfee encrypted partition to SSD ), Windows ...
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cloned drive with 1TB capacity allocated 813GB to WinRE tools, and I can't expand the C drive

I cloned a 120GB SSD to a 1TB ssd using Macrium Reflect. I followed the directions per the following video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H7D1HcfY9o), but when I booted from the newly-cloned SSD ...
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Ssh authentication works, but git clone doesn't

I am on Windows 10 and I'm really confused why I can't clone a repo from bitbucket. I generated a keypair and added the public key to my bitbucket account, added the private key to the ssh-agent. ssh-...

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