Use this tag when you have questions regarding cloning or imaging a partition/file system from one device to another.
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Use Macrium Reflect to Clone an SSD with three partitions to a larger SSD, expanding the middle partition
I'm trying to use Macrium Reflect Free to clone a disk from a 75 GB SSD to 225 GB SSD. The source has three partitions, and I want to clone them all, but I want the first and third to be the same ...
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Image/Clone Entire Disk including OS X and Boot Camp Partitions
Is it possible to clone an entire Mac disk including both OS X and Boot Camp partitions?
Background: My company is switching from PCs to Macs. We want to have a dual boot platform. Before I used to ...
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Take a regular Windows 7 clone with clonezilla (device-to-image) partition only
I am unexperienced with cloning software and I've decided to use Clonezilla as it seemed best as freeware. I chose device > image and left most options standard. I chose expert mode anyway to see what ...
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Can I create a cloned system image and deploy it on a new machine?
I am attempting to create a backup image of a system deployed on a machine now. Then I would like to deploy this image on a different computer. Despite driver incompatibilities is this ...
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Renaming WebSphere after disk cloning
I know it is not the correct ways, but since keeping other installed stuffs is needed.
Does anyone have the steps of renaming a WebSphere Server after cloning at disk level ?
Any help are welcome.
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Free program to clone 3TB hard drive to another one with USB3 support in Windows 7?
All I'm trying to do is clone one WD 3TB GPT drive to another identical drive. One is internal, one is attached with a USB 3.0 dock. I'm copying from internal to external drive.
Macrium Reflect ...
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Clone an entire Mac HD (including bootcamp partition) using target disk mode?
I have two otherwise identical iMacs (the actual situation is different, but I'm simplifying it for the purposes of this question). We'll designate one of them as the source machine, and one as the ...
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Error Code 32 After Swapping out a Hard drive on Windows 7?
My Asus G51Vx originally had one hard drive, a 320 GB drive. The laptop came with Windows Vista and I replaced it with Windows 7.
Later I opened it up, voided the warranty, and installed a second ...
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Best way of keeping my data when changing hard drive
I'm about to get a SSD and I'd like to know what is the way of keeping the data from my mechanical hard drive. I have OpenSUSE and Windows 7 installed on a dual boot. I've found on Google two ways ...
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How to check if a drive has an MBR?
I cloned my drive. Then I wanted to select that as boot device, but it didn't show up in BIOS.
This forum post says it's because the MBR was not copied.
So how do I verify that the MBR was copied? ...
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Cloning a HDD to an SSD while maintaining aligment
I would like to know the best way to clone an HDD to an SSD (it's a bootdrive of a laptop so I would like to have a ready-to-replace SSD which can be just plugged in and everything works), everything ...
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Bootable CD to backup a hard disk?
There are lots of tools like FoG, G4L, PING, CloneZilla, etc. which allow you to boot from a CD/USB-key and follow some on-screen menus to backup your hard disk to an FTP server, SSH server, or ...
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Why I Get BSOD When Running From Cloned HDD Before Windows 7 Startup?
So I have cloned with XXClone my Intel 330i 120GB SSD to my older WD 250GB HDD which I decided to make fallback external drive and placed in 2.5" HDD USB 2.0 enclosure case:
After choosing first ...
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Why doesn't DriveImage XML recognize my partitions in destination step?
I am trying to copy my current windows 7 installation over to my second HD using DriveImage XML; however, although it recognizes my drive partitions in the initial step of drive-to-drive, when I am ...
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Copy/Cloning A Windows Installation [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What utility can move my Windows boot partition over to another hard drive?
What I have:
1 Laptop w/ vista and failing hard-drive. (only 1 drive bay)
1 Brand new ...
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Cloning a dieing drive
I have a drive that is failing. Lots of bad sectors and the OS crashed.
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Can I clone the drive and hope it boots up or is it a lost cause?
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And what is a good way to clone it? I know people use ...
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Dead-simple USB-based Windows partition cloner?
Clonezilla is a fine open-source tool, but it requires going through several screens.
Since I need to save/restore the same Windows partition, I was wondering if someone knew of a tool (open-source ...
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What would I need to do to clone a Linux install to another machine?
Basically, I want to make an image of one Linux install I have, and distribute it over similar (if not identical) spec machines on a network. I know it is possible, however am unsure of what needs to ...
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Disk ID update after partition cloning from HDD to SSD
I am looking forward to adding SSD in a laptop and in a desktop both currently having single HDD each. Laptop has single partition (well apart from the Recovery and OEM) and desktop has two partitions ...
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Disk showing as dynamic with Acronis and Easus Clone, but it's actually basic
I regularly clone my Dell Inspiron 1525 hard drive with Vista home premium to an identical HDD through a USB using either Acronis True Image 2010 Home or Easus.
This time when I use it, either I get ...
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FOG to deploy only the first partition of HDD
i am using FOG (free opensource ghost) for cloning computers
i want to image only the first partition of my HDD which would be my system drive c:
i have tried all the options size ...
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Partimage and autocheck problem when restoring Windows XP from image
I'm trying to create an image of Windows XP and clone it to several partitions on the same hard drive using Partimage. I seem to be running into a problem when I restore the image onto another ...
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Cloning old hard drive to new hard drive without External Hard Drive or CD Drive
The previous day I ran some hardware tests, only to find that my hard drive was failing and needed replacements. So I called my computer manufacturer to receive a fresh hard drive under warranty.
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Data Recover - Windows or Linux [closed]
When is comes to doing data recovery or disk scans/repairs or cloning which operating system do you think would be the most ideal choice?
Reason I look to Linux is because of DD and DDRescue. ...
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Is there a performance difference between Windows 7 on SSD installed from scratch versus it using a recent ghost/clone drive image from a harddisk?
I'm planning to upgrade a notebook PC to a Solid-State Flash Drive (SSD) soon. I want to use the notebook before that and am considering installing Windows 7 on the hard disk (spinning variety, ...
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Missing ssd storage space
I cloned my old HDD to a new HDD. My old HDD was 149GB with 6.8GB free space. The new HDD is 750GB. As you can see the new drive is much bigger than the old HDD.
After the cloning was done I ...
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Ubuntu issues when moving hard disk to new system
I'm working on a legacy project with a small single board computer running Ubuntu 10.04 on a compact flash card. I need to be able to save away a working image (via dd) and copy said image to other ...
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Clone McAfee encrypted partition to SSD
I have a corporate laptop with a slow 5400 rpm C: drive, and I want to clone the drive to an SSD drive to improve performance on the laptop. The plan is to replace the original drive with the new SSD ...
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Clone system partition windows 7
I have bought a Samsung SSD drive, 256 GB. I already have Samsung HDD (512 GB) with several partitions, but now i want to reorganize my system - to move my Windows 7 system partition to the SSD.
The ...
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How do I clone a RAID 0 array to a single disk?
Situation:
One empty 120GB SSD
Two 60GB SSD's is RAID 0 containing a Windows 7 installation
The RAID is firmware-based (a.k.a. fakeRAID) which means it requires a driver for it to be seen by an ...
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What settings do I use for Carbon Copy Cloner if I want everything exactly the same on my new SSD?
I am upgrading from a hard drive to an SSD and looking at Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4.5. However I am uncertain what settings I should use as far as handling data already on the destination. Essentially I ...
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Can't start Windows 7 after cloning HDD
Brief description:
cloned HDD1 -> HDD2
HDD1 partition 1 boots
HDD1 partition 2 boots
HDD2 partition 1 boots
HDD2 partition 2 doesn't boot Windows, but is bootable in general
Now verbosely:
In ...
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Increase cloned Lion partition to larger hard drive
After cloning a 250GB hard drive of a Lion install to a 1TB hard drive, I am unable to increase the size of the partition. Is there a way to force the OS to refresh the size of the hard drive? I ...
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Cloning a failing disk in Windows 7
I have a Windows 7 machine with several partitions on a 1.5T drive. Windows has been complaining about disk errors and imminent failure, so I have purchased a new 2TB drive.
The failing disk has not ...
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Cloning/Imaging a drive
What software is best to clone and image a drive and then copy it to another drive?
How hard is it to do? Are there any steps I need to do to make it easier to do?
Example: copy a desktop setup to a ...
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Number of Heads MisMatch - DriveImg XML
I am trying to clone my windows drive onto my new SSD drive. I am using DriveImage XML to do this.
However it came up and said there is a "Number of head mismatch (original 240, target 255)".
It ...
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How to clone a hardrive (C: parition PLUS boot sector)? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I easily copy or clone a Windows boot partition onto a new hard drive?
I have a 120GB drive and want to make a clone in case I break something. It doesn't have to ...
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A Windows 7 tool to create an image from my bootable USB stick
I am looking for an efficient and preferrably free tool
to take a full copy of my USB stick and make a disk image from it
with possibility to write back to it.
Actually I have a CF-Disk and I am ...
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how to undo my RAID 0 setup while preserving data?
I currently have a RAID 0 setup with 2 drives with a single partition which holds my OS on it. Now I want to take one of those drives out and put them into another computer. But I want to keep my OS ...
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Ghost / Drive Clone Software [duplicate]
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 ...
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Replacing hard disk with bad sectors
My hard disk has become very slow. (for ex. Listening music or watching movies which are stored on the hard disk is nearly impossible because they keep getting stuck for seconds before continuing, ...
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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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Cloning OS X to many machines at once
Perhaps thisis an age old question, but as we started to have more and more Macs in the department I feel the need to streamline the setup time.
I have about 30 latest MacPro's and I need to install ...
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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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Best program to clone partition
I need to directly clone two different partitions; I will be storing the two clones on another hard drive.
Are there any good quality programs that anyone can recommend? I'm looking for stability in ...
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Software to clone HFS+ partition [duplicate]
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?
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How do I perform the same customized Ubuntu install on many machines?
We have eight or so machines with similar (but not necessarily identical) hardware in our development team. We're pair programming, so we want all the machines to be set up in and behave the same way.
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Alternative to rsync for file level cloning?
I have 500gb of files that I want to copy to a temporary drive and then back.
I would like to be able to do this as fast as possible.
I checked out doing a block level clone, which is nice and fast ...
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Move Windows 7 OS to a new drive, and get a new boot partition — migrating from dual-boot GRUB
I have a somewhat strange setup. My drive layout currently looks like this:
Disk 0 is my main OS drive right now, and as you can see, the 3rd partition is my C:. The other partitions are two ...
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How to back up initial state of external backup drive?
I've picked up an HP Simplesave external drive. It comes with some fancy software that is of no use to me because I don't use Windows. Like many current consumer-targeted backup drives, the backup ...
