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Windows shows smaller size of hard drive after cloning partitions

I upgraded my Windows hard drive, and now have a space problem. I inserted a new 240GB SSD, used CloneZilla to clone my old 120GB Windows C: drive SSD to this new one, switched the SATA cables, and ...
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How to reinstall Windows 10 on new hard disk

I've been using Windows 10 for a couple of month now (joined the Insider Preview). Now my hard drive started ticking so I've bought a new SSD and I want to move the windows installation to the new ...
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What is the most efficient, native way to image a Windows partition?

What is the most efficient, native way to image a Windows partition? Is the native method generally the best method for most users? How does the native method differ from conventional cloning? What ...
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Transfer Windows to another hard disk

I've got a 80Gb hard disk and I want to transfer the system to another 500Gb hd (without to reinstall windows). What the easy and free way to transfer the system to another hd?
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How can I change the disk id of a freshly cloned disk?

Situation: I cloned a Windows 10 system SSD (old) onto a bigger externally connected SSD (new) and then replaced the old SSD with the new one. I booted the system and everything worked fine. Problem: ...
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How to clone a Windows 10 dell onto an SSD

I've recently bought a Dell Inspiron 3650, and would like to clone the disk onto a samsung SSD I have bought for it, in order to speed up boot times etc. Samsung provide a clone tool called "Samsung ...
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How to Move / Migrate a Hard disk with multiple bootable partitions to Larger size?

Currently I am using a 320gb hard disk on my laptop. I have a newer 500gb one. I decided to migrate the 320gb HDD and its contents into the 500gb one. Problem is that my 320gb HDD has multiple ...
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3 partitions, cloning to larger disk; preserve GRUB?

I've got a 10 GB ext3 partition, a ~512 MB linux-swap partition, and a 45.4 GB NTFS partition. I have GRUB doing my bootloading. I'm looking to clone it all to a new 160 GB hard drive I got today and ...
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How to upgrade to higher capacity NVME ssd in windows 10 without loosing anything

Hello I have almost saturated my 256GB NVME ssd of my laptop and it was about time i upgrade, I have bought a 1TB NVME ssd to migrate into. It would seems that comments on how to clone a drive only ...
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Can somebody help my enlarge the EFI Partition?

These are my current partitions. How do I move 500 MB from C: or F: to the EFI?
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Computer always enters BIOS

I have a Computer running Windows 11, with a Gigabyte Z690i Ultra DDR4 motherboard and a Samsung 980 PRO 2TB SSD. It's been working perfectly for months, but a couple of days ago when I started it up ...
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PC wont turn on

My desktop PC doesnt't turn on after I shut it down by using the power switch. If I don't use power switch to turn off the PC, it will turn on properly. Also, when I try to turn it on the mouse lights ...
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OSMC doesn't update due to no free space on boot partition

I have OSMC on Raspberry Pi 3b and a 16 GB SD card the most space on this card is free ... except of boot partition apt-get dist-upgrade fails due to lack of free space on boot partition apt-get ...
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