Questions tagged [disk-cloning]
For questions regarding cloning or imaging a partition/file system from one device to another.
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How to verify Windows 10 activation after cloning?
I have 10 identical PCs which I upgrade from Windows 7 to 10. I started this process with 2 PCs. I upgraded them individually from 7 to 10 and after Windows 10 started (connected to the internet) I ...
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Blue screen after disk cloning to another HP 840 G2 laptop
I had 88 pieces of HP 840 G2 laptops. On one of them I installed Windows 7 with updates and drivers and cloned whole hard drive (all sectors) to the rest of the laptops.
According to this topic - if ...
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How to clone SSD with Linux Mint 18 to a larger SSD
Is there a way to clone an SSD with Linux Mint 18 system to a larger SSD and have a functioning system? Also, what to do with GRUB?
I have multiple machines. And I plan on using one unused Linux Mint ...
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Cloning an old OS from Sata SSD to M.2 SSD
I have an old HP Probook with a 256GB SATA SSD.
Now I got a new Dell XPS 15 with a 500GB M.2 SSD.
Ideally I'd want to clone my current SSD onto the new one and keep using Windows as before, but I ...
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Restoring a disk image that was cloned with errors
I have a disk image of a 500 GB that was created using the following:
# dd if=/dev/sda conv=sync,noerror bs=64K | gzip -c > backup.img.gz
There were certain errors (approximately 15-20 of them) ...
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Trouble Cloning Hard Drive with Clonezilla
I'm trying to transfer a 2TB drive to a 4TB drive with Clonezilla. The problem is that the transfer speeds are progressively slowing down.
Initially the status bar said that the clone would finish in ...
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Cloning a HD vs. Copying Files - Which is faster?
Which is faster if I wanted to copy all files on a 6 TB hard drive to an 8 TB external hard drive? Cloning the 6 TB hard drive with Macrium Reflect or copying all files with UltraCopier? I noticed ...
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Keeping cloned partition as bootable backup
I'll try to keep it short,
I want to clone my current Windows 7 Install from an HDD
[80GB System (C:) and 1,7TB Data (D:)] to an SSD.
The last SSD I installed unfortunately broke after only a few ...
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Clone 2 seperate harddrives onto 1 TB SSD (dual boot)
I have a windows 10 machine and a xubuntu linux machine (both pc's are lenovo T450s) - i would like to put in a 1TB ssd in 1 T450s, and then clone each of the 2 drives onto that drive as dual boot ( ...
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M.2 (or NGFF) SSD cloning, how to clone to a M-key PCIe SSD using an external USB connection?
The usual way I do this is connect two drives to a computer using the USB interface and a cloning software like FarStone. Afterwards I would install the new cloned drive in the laptop/computer. I have ...
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Which partitions should I clone when migrating Windows from HDD to SSD?
I have a Lenovo desktop PC where I'd like to migrate my Windows 10 installation from the HDD it's currently installed on to a new SSD.
I plan to do this by cloning the relevant partitions on the HDD ...
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How can I move an UEFI Win10 install to a BIOS only PC?
We have a ready to use on production environment PC, and want to clone its hard drive on ten workstations.
The problem is the machine is a modern PC with a Windows 10 UEFI setup.
Is there any ...
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Cloning sysprepped factory Windows 10 HDD to smaller SSD before first boot
I have ordered a new laptop computer with Windows 10. It comes with a 1TB HDD. I would like to clone the drive and move it to a 256GB SSD before first boot. This way, I can maintain the sysprepped ...
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Windows 10 HDD to SSD for primary partition [duplicate]
Just upgraded boot partition to a 480gb SSD and its so much quicker, but.. Now my primary partition is divided as followed. [111.16GB System Reserved][224.53GB NTFS][111.333GB Recovery Partition] It ...
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Cloning a Hard drive to avoid re-installing OS and other programs
I guess , its been a long time since I did this but I have a HDD whose S.M.A.R.T readings report a "imminent failure" . Its an Apple HDD so I thought it'd long lasting when I bought it but alas - not ...
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How to copy the full C: drive to an external disk, to copy to another machine?
Windows 7:
I need to return a loan PC and I want to copy ALL of it, to an external drive, to copy to my own machine when I get it back.
How do I copy ALL on C: to E:?
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Cloning/Imaging A Mounted TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt Volume
From VeraCrypt's documentation (here, section "System Partitions"), it sounds like one should be able to:
1) Boot a PE (or secondary OS),
2-3) Create & mount a new, empty encrypted volume (...
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Using dd to backup disk to same disk
I've tried using dd to back up my computer's hard drive, but I met with some rather confusing results. I've seen on multiple sources (e.g.: http://www.backuphowto.info/linux-backup-hard-disk-clone-dd,...
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Issue cloning SSD to larger SSD
I have recently purchased a new SSD which I am trying to set as my primary drive for my OS. Currently my original drive (C:/) is also an SSD however space is becoming an issue (its only 60GB) while ...
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Can be Windows 8 drive with UEFI boot cloned trivially?
Due to lack of disk space, I need to replace bootable 128 GB SSD drive with 256 GB unit.
Is it as simple as creating disk image of drive and restoring it on another drive or should I expect any ...
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Getting windows to recognize new SSD after cloning and swapping
Today I cloned my SSD (some OCZ Vertex where Windows 10 x64 is installed) to a bigger SSD (some Crucial M500) then swapped the drives. (I followed this guide, pretty much step-by-step.)
Everything ...
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How to partition a hard drive for cloning? Clonezilla
I am running windows 8.1 on my desktop PC, which has two-3TB hard drives installed. The first drive is where windows is installed. It has one NTFS partition labeled "System Reserved", another NTFS ...
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Periodic slow performance after cloning from SSD to HDD
A user was complaining about C: Partition size and refused to reduce his personal content on the drive. At the time he had a SSD and we only had spare HDD of larger size. All parties agreed to replace ...
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Failing to boot after disk cloning
I had the following configuration of partitions on old 160GB disk:
/sda
/sda1 - 100MB - NTFS - System Recovery (hidden Windows partition)
/sda2 - 75GB - NTFS - Windows
/sda3 - extended ...
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partclone.btrfs thousands of correctable csum errors
I just cloned a btrfs file system from one disk to another using partclone.btrfs --dev-to-dev. Afterwards, I mounted the cloned file system and started a scrub to see if everything is in order. After ...
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Why do I need to reregister DLLs?
I recently cloned a partition with Windows 7 on it. Hoping that it would work fine, I booted it successfully and was able to get it running except that I got something like "Interface Not Supported" ...
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512B to 4KiB (Advanced Format) HDD cloning with dd
What is the best practice to clone with a dd an existing 512-bytes-per-sector HDD (whole disk, not specific partitions) to a modern 4-kibibytes-per-sector Advanced Format drive? What options should be ...
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Do norton ghost has a feature similar to acronis one click restore?
Clonzilla and Acronis has this recovery program and pc image in one disk feature, does Norton have this feature too? if yes what is it call? i cant seem to find it
acronis true image one click ...
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Cloning Cloned HDD's
One thing I do for my job team is create master hard drives for a software platform that they develop for. We get these installer disks that are inserted into a machine (laptops in this case), which ...
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Cloning a Linux software RAID and LVM setup to another computer
I need to create a number of (almost) identical Linux machines (Debian Wheezy) with software RAID and LVM. I'm thinking of creating a base installation and cloning that one to all machines.
I tried ...
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ssd cloned to hdd won't boot in USB
I'm upgrading my SSD on my Lenovo Yoga Pro 2 notebook.
In order to clone the original SSD, I wanted to first clone it to an external device, then boot the computer using the external device and clone ...
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Copying numerous drives to one HDD
In the last month I took out about 5 HDDs from my laptops and replaced them with SSD drives. Now these drives are very old, and the heads are worn out, so working with the data that's on them seems ...
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Can not mount copy of image file (ddrescue): "can't have a partition outside the disk"
I'm struggling for days now moving my old Windows XP installation to a new hard disk, because the old disk is failing.
Long story short:
I successfully created an image of the entire (failing) disk ...
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Disk Cloning and Drive Partition Tags
I have cloned my single HDD to a new, larger disk but am having trouble matching the drive status tags.
The C: partition on the current drive is marked with the following tags: Boot, Page File, Crash ...
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Cloning two internal HDDs on to one external HDD as a backup
My Asus M51AC desktop PC has a 500MB HDD with pre-installed Win 8 (upgraded to Win 8.1), so I also installed a 1TB HDD with OEM WIN 7 Pro SP1. Can I copy/clone both HDDs to one backup 2TB HDD, so I ...
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Partitioning issue after HDD to SSD sector copy and swap in Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)
Recently decided to replace my nearly full 500GB hard disk drive with a 1TB SSD to breathe some new life into my mid-2010 MacBook Pro.
I used a “toaster”-style drive cloner (Dyconn Dubbler) to do a ...
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Removing GRUB when migrating to SSD
I have an SSD that I would like to migrate windows to. It previously had Ubuntu installed. After reformatting the hardrive, then using cloning software to clone the windows onto it, I tried to boot to ...
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Is it possible to convert .vdi or .vhd into OS cloning images?
I think the question isn't so clear. I'm asking if it's possible to convert Virtual Hard Disk files (.vdi, .vhd, etc., including snapshots) into Acronis Images, so I could emulate the system, set the ...
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HD cloning without deleted files
After cloning a HD, I analyzed target HD and found deleted files from source HD (files which i deleted long before the cloning!). So, do you know what settings in Acronis True Image prevent copying ...
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How can I identify bad sectors on a hard drive to check if files are affected? [duplicate]
Last week a six year old Vista desktop blue screened with a registry error. Rebooting, it loaded fine. I ran SeaTools on the drive (Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB) and it said that I should replace the ...
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What needs to be done to a target hard drive before using Clonezilla for disk-to-disk bootable clone?
My 500GB hard drive reported a failure to Windows (I have Windows 7) and I want to clone this drive to a good 1TB drive before the 500GB drive stops working. I have been reading the manuals on how to ...
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What does "parse junctions" mean when copying all files to another drive?
The free program Shadow Copy is supposed to copy all files from one drive to another, including system and hidden files, so the destination will also be bootable if the source was.
There is an option ...
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Cloned Windows XP does not boot
I used DriveImage XL to do a disk-to-disk clone of an old copy of Windows XP. I took it from a failing hard drive that had two partitions (one for Windows, one for storage) and cloned it onto a new ...
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Moving Windows 7 to a new drive
I have a Win 7 64 bit system with two 1 terabyte drives - each with multiple partitions. When I built the machine 6 months ago, I repurposed an older drive as the primary drive, but this drive now ...
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Device for easy hard disk imaging
I am looking for a device of which I don't know how it should be called.
The current situation is that we provide computer services and often have to take disk images of hard disks before doing ...
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Cloning SSD sector-by-sector to HDD for a "zero downtime" backup in emergency situations?
I have 120GB Intel 330i SSD drive that I initially migrated my data from stock 250GB WD hard drive to with Acronis migration tool that Intel supplied. Since SSD was only 120GB I had to do some cleanup ...
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BSOD after cloning data hard drive Windows Vista Ultimate
I have an issue with my current system not running properly after I clone my data drive to another, bigger hard drive. I have tried Acronis TruImage as well as a couple of other programs that I cannot ...
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Cloning drive to drive of same size in Ubuntu Server 12.04LTS
I'm trying to replace a 3.5in hard drive with a 2.5in hard drive inside a 1U server. The drives have the same capacity (250GB, 232GB formatted). It's been years since I've cloned a hard drive, and ...
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Need to install Win7 on 8 identical computers
I am putting together 8 new computers for my dentist. All brand new with exact same hardware. These are generic machines I am assembling with Gigabyte motherboards and not name branded computers. ...
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Cloning smaller flash drive to a larger flash drive
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How can you clone a smaller flash drive (8Gb) to a larger flash drive (16Gb) without losing the empty space on the drive?
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I have a 8Gb flash drive with files on it that ...
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