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Clonezilla disk check incredibly slow

I am doing backup of my entire disk to image stored on another HDD connected via USB. Creating images went relatively fast (~700-1000 MB/min) but checking afterwards is slooow: 7MB/min. Which means ~...
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Windows partition refusing to boot after cloning and extending

I recently bought a new, bigger and faster ssd. I needed to clone the disk and extend the windows partition, and did this with Acronis True Image, whose cloning function also happens to extend the ...
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Fix cloned Windows problems (laptop system-recovery, memtest, Windows recovery environment)

Background/Cause Several months ago, I upgraded my laptop's hard-drive to an SSD. The SSD is smaller than the hard-drive, so I freed up enough space for it to fit and cloned the drive to the SSD, with ...
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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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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 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 partition(...
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disk cloning - issue with disk naming and boot

I cloned my internal HDD into a samsung 990 Pro using clonezilla. I am on Windows 10 and both disks are internal. When I open disk management, the old drive "Windows (C:)" shows 476 GB NTFS (...
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Windows 10 clone fails to boot from 2.5” SSD USB 3.0 Enclosure (USB to ATA/ATAPI Bridge)

Prerequisite Description Computer used: UEFI-only laptop with Startup Manager (boot volume can be selected on boot) Clone source: Laptop's internal NVMe AHCI SSD (soldered to motherboard), 500 GB ...
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Can't choose which HDD to boot from. Old drive not showing up in msconfig boot tab

I have attached an image that shows my system information, my disk management, and my msconfig boot tab. This is very weird to me: previous versions of Windows allowed me to enter a menu at startup ...
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I cloned a HDD with ddrescue. What next?

The original drive would not pass chkdsk or a clone using Macrium Reflect or EaseUS. I read up about ddrescue and decided to give it a shot. This is after all just a hard drive I used for installing ...
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Can't boot after cloning system to SSD

I'm trying to migrate a Windows install to a SSD. The current HDD contains installs for both Windows and Ubuntu, as well as data partitions. The SSD is smaller than the HDD, so I copied each partition ...
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How can disk cloning without dismounting work?

When last I cloned an HDD, a few years back, the program (I forget which it was...) rebooted my machine to write the clone. I'm now doing this again but all the versions of clone software I'm seeing ...
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Issues cloning MacOS drive into smaller one

I am trying to move my OS X install to a smaller disk because I plan to move to another OS, but this is taking much longer than planned so I hope someone can help me here. The SSD that now holds OS X ...
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Windows 10 not booting from SSD cloned from HDD

I have installed an SSD in my laptop as second drive as below: Removed the optical drive from the laptop Removed the primary 1TB HDD from its bay/slot Inserted the 500GB SSD in the bay/slot ...
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How to Recover Encrypted Hard Drive Data with System Rescue CD Over LAN

I would like to know what would be the best way to proceed with cloning my hard drive to the point that I can simply insert the cloned drive into my PC and seamlessly boot from it as I currently do ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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How to activate Windows during a massive OS deployment + machine testing?

I need to install Windows on 200 Lenovo ThinkPad T460 and 200 Lenovo ThinkPad T470 laptops, which will then be delivered to various countries in Africa. These PCs are used and require a check of their ...
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Lenovo IdeaPad L340 Gaming (15IRH) Windows 11 does not boot after disk clone

I am an ordinary Linux guy trying to upgrade my friend's laptop Lenovo IdeaPad L340 Gaming (15IRH). The original disk NVMe 3.0 x4 Intel SSDPEKNW512G8L 512GB cloned using an image of the disk on an ...
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Bootable External Drive Issue on Apple Silicon M2- Need Help Resolving

Note: It is working Fine on M1 machine. I've been encountering difficulties with my bootable external drive on my Apple Silicon Mac. I've tried creating the bootable drive using ASR, Carbon Copy ...
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Migrating Windows install M.2 to M.2 utilizing a 3rd drive

Current M.2 drive with a Windows 10 install is 128GB. New M.2 drive is 1TB. I only have one M.2 slot. Question: If I clone the old drive to an external hard drive that is 2TB, will it cause any issues ...
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How can I find the correct disk number of the hard drive installed in the computer?

I installed a new Kingston nvme m.2 ssd to my hp 15da2014TX laptop. My old drive is an HDD. Both drives are 1TB. I want to clear the Kingston drive but, I am afraid to do it because I can't ...
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replacing main drive in a multi-OS setup without breaking GRUB or reinstalling every OS

I have two NVMe drives on my PC, the first (and original) one has Windows, the default OS on my PC. Later on, I added a second NVMe drive, where I installed a few Linux distributions. I get a menu at ...
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Why must the source drive be running the OS for Samsung Magician Data Migration to proceed?

I'm trying to clone from one small NVME drive to a larger one for a laptop I own. I remove the drive from the laptop, plug it along with the larger drive into this PCIE dual NVME adapter on my desktop ...
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I can't get access to a recently cloned SSD, because I want to keep my HDD as backup

I cloned my laptop HDD to a NVMe card 240GB, both are recognised in UEFI. At first I disconnected my HDD and it boots successfully from the NVMe card, but then I reconnected the HDD as I want it as a ...
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Cloning SSD w/ OS onto SSD w/ data already on it. Partition?

I need to upgrade my storage in my computer but only have one slot for my M.2, so cloning to my new M.2 through my computer is not possible. My idea for a solution is to clone my current M.2 onto my ...
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Cloning multiple hard drives into one mass backup drive

There are two computers I need to back up to one hard drive. The hard drive is big enough for both of their drives (one is another HDD, the other is an SSD). Both have only one internal drive. How ...
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win10 cloning to bigger hardisk results in unusable recovery partition

does anybody know what could have happened: after cloning win10 HDD (with clonezilla) to bigger HDD everything went fine, able to start win10 on new bigger HDD with no problems, but recovery partition ...
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Cloning a linux installation to multiboot with the original

I installed arch linux on an empty drive partitioned as gpt on an UEFI board. My plan is to have three copies of this insatllation for the reasons that i'll furtherr detail. the partition table ...
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Make clean install of Ubuntu 20.04/Windows image it and deploy to 10 computers

I am currently working on new project, where I have to install a clean system (Ubuntu 20/ Windows 10). Install all needed software, make and image of these system (Ubuntu and Windows), then deploy on ...
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Target 2TB NVME SSD same size as 1TB source after cloning

I've just done an offline clone of a 1TB NVMe SSD to a 2TB NVMe SSD (I tried software cloning a few times but I always had issues booting to windows). Whilst the clone does boot, it shows the exact ...
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My cloned HDD (win7) boots on new hardware, but USB doesn't work in Windows. Works fine in BIOS. How to fix without working mouse/keyboard?

I guess this is not 'best practice' but I was hoping to make it work. I created an image of my old Win7 system, then wrote that image to a new SSD. (used Macrium reflect and booted into WinPE to write ...
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Unique issue with a BitLocker cloned partition

I have a unique problem for which I am seeking a solution. I have a laptop which originally had a 256GB M.2 NVMe SSD. I upgraded the drive to a 1TB model, and used MiniTool partition wizard to clone ...
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Create macOS High Sierra and newer bootable recovery partition on a separate standalone disk

There are manuals on cloning the recovery partitions to a separate disk for any macOS or OS X version prior to High Sierra, but I can google nothing about creating a standalone recovery disk for High ...
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How to clone computer image A to the computer B

I'm setting up computer for business purposes and I set up the main one as every employee should have. Whole process takes +/- 2 hours. Is there a faster way to clone whatever apps/settings are ...
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What happens to empty space when cloning to a larger disk?

I am trying to learn about cloning a small SSD to a larger SSD using Macrium. My OS (Windows 10) is installed on a 120 GB SSD but I need to clone the OS to a 500 GB SSD and then insert the new SSD ...
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Clone disk from cmd

Is there a way to clone a disk from the command prompt? I know about programs like Minitool Partition Wizard which can easily perform a clone from within Windows itself, but at the moment I only have ...
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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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How to copy a Large disk to multiple smaller ones

So I have a 2TB HDD drive that is about to fail. I have around 1.5TB of used space. Now I want to copy all the files from my Big drive to smaller ones. I have 3 500GB drives. The problem is that there ...
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How to restore a System Image VHD to a new harddrive?

I am upgrading the hard drive, from disk A (120 GB) to disk B (500 GB), in a laptop with Windows 7 professional. This is what I did: Made a system image of A using the built in backup tool, saving ...
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Samsung NVMe 2TB drive "toast"?

I've had this drive as my OS+data drive for about 10 months. It just apparently died on me. The computer was running Windows 10 and had a BSOD. When I booted it up, the drive was detected but not ...
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0xc0000225 error after cloning windows 7 from one disk to another using dd

We have two hard disks. One is 80GB, most likely damaged/corrupt/failing. The second is 320GB. In the 80GB disk, we have Windows 7 enterprise installed. Since we would like to keep our application ...
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