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

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Windows 11 not booting after cloning

I have 2 M.2 drives in my laptop, a 500GB one which is the current OS disk and a new 2TB one, which is where I would like to clone Windows 11 to. I have tried using tools like Samsung Magician and ...
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Clone a bootable M2-SSD (Win10) to a new M2-SDD-Volume containing (Win11)

I have an HP laptop (1) with Windows 11 22H2 installed and another HP laptop (2) with Windows 10. Would it be possible to clone/image the windows 10 M2-ssd to be another bootable volume on the Windows ...
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Windows 10 - Clone Drive [duplicate]

I bought my son a reconditioned PC a couple of years ago. Now that he's moved on I have inherited the PC and I am puzzled about something. The following drives are displayed:- Local Disk (C:) 646 GB ...
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Should individual project access tokens allow access to other repos in GitLab?

I seem to have some fundamental problem in my GitLab instance somewhere or am not understanding the purpose of project access tokens properly. Some context: Am maintaining multiple different projects ...
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Linux: Clone harddrive to external USB stick

I would like to clone a whole linux OS from the harddrive to an external USB stick. However, I don't want to clone all the unused part of the harddrive, only the used part. The partitions on the ...
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What will be a workflow of migrating OS and program from one SSD to another

I have a 1TB SSD for C Drive (OS, programs). I now have a 4TB new SSD for D Drive. What I want to do is Clone the content of C Drive to D Drive Rename D Drive with OS as a new C Drive. Rename the old ...
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The difficulties of editing a BCD Store on a cloned system drive

Problem: Booting from a cloned NVME drive / EFI System Partition still boots into the old OS system drive. I want it to boot into the new drive's OS and get it assigned as C. Context: I've rolled this ...
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Cloned 250GB SSD to a 2TB NVME SSD and now the target drive only has 250GB and I cannot resize

I just used a hardware cloning device. Where I just press a button and it clones the source to the target, but now the target is only 250GB and I can't resize the partition to take up the rest of the ...
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An error occures everytime I duplicate my Rocky Linux vmdk

I have recently studied Rocky Linux (the really basics) and sometimes I "mess" with the OS (doing some experiments to learn about it and how it works). In order to not install it on an ...
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'Sector Cannot be Read' after cloning with EASEUS Disk Copy Pro

I would like to ask for some help relating to a cloning issue, which is doing my head in! But first, some short background here: I have a 12-year old Dell OptiPlex 990 SFF, purchased in 2011. Apart ...
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Fixing boot after cloning Windows 10 partition from GPT UEFI to MBR legacy?

As an emergency solution during a hardware repair, I would like to clone a 512GB NVMe SSD to a 1TB HDD, on a different hardware, and make Windows 10 bootable, in order to not have to reinstall/...
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fatal: unable to access could not resolve host git lab ubuntu

I am trying to run git clone as below through Ubuntu terminal(unix) and getting below error.. git clone -c http.sslverify=false https://gitlab.financeexpert.com/finance/financeflow.git error: fatal: ...
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Unable to recover snapshot of critical domain controller

I foolishly moved the folder for OS windows 2016 64 bit which is used as my domain controller to a different location, and then at first I was unable to run the VM but that was sorted out my renaming ...
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Copied persistent live linux USB Stick does not work

I created with RUFUS tool on windows a persistent live linux usb stick with ubuntu 11. Then I deleted some not necessary apps and added some new ones. Then I did on a linux system(Debian) a diskdump ...
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btrfs fi du: several sets of shared extents

I have a lot of files in various directories on a btrfs filesystem. They are all identical, and some may have been created using a "old-style" full copy, some are clones (cp --reflink). I ...
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Inaccessible Boot Device after Macrium Clone setting up W10/W11 dual boot

Gigabyte X570 Pro Wi-Fi with 2xM.2 NVMe slots, 5800X processor Urgent woes trying to set up dual-boot W10/W11. With W10 installed on Samsung Evo M.2 NVMe 2TB in Mobo Slot 2, I created disk image with ...
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Clone Windows partition to another partitions on same harddrive to create a multiboot system

i have the following Problem: I have a ~1 TB Harddrive (GPT) and have created a ~95 GB partition on it and installed Windows 11 on the new created partition. Now i have about 4 Partitions on the Drive:...
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How to exactly clone a LUKS full-disk-encrypted SSD (NVME, M.2) to a larger, bootable SDD incl. changes in GRUB, /etc/crypttab (UUIDs) etc

Can anybody help in a detailed step-by-step guide for Linux/Debian 11? So far I have: Plug in both SSDs and boot Linux from live-USB stick Open shell and list all block devices with "sudo lsblk&...
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GPT Table repair after dd disc clone

I used dd to clone a 500gb Hard Drive to a 256gb SSD before doing this I edited the partitions so that the last 280gb (roughly) was unallocated using GParted. Eventually dd ran out of room at 240gb, ...
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windows refuses to boot from original nvme drive after cloning to a sata drive

Background: After learning about a potential firmware issue with one of my nvme drives (search: Samsung 980/990 pro read-only bricking 2023 February). I decided to apply the appropriate firmware ...
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How to add NVMe drivers to an SSD to a cloned Windows installation to use in new computer so the system can boot?

I used a disc cloning software to clone a non-nvme drive into an NVMe drive. The problem is that I need to add a couple drivers for Windows to boot. Namely, the NVMe drivers. This includes 2 hotfixes ...
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Clone LUKS encrypted SSD to NVME (slightly different size)

I bought a same sized NVME as my previous SSD to clone it. I mean I thought they were of the same size. Both are supposed to be 1 TB discs. I did: sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/nvme1n1 bs=64K conv=sync,...
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git insists on user local user name on ubuntu while cloning

I followed the guides to set up my user name and e-mail. I then verified with the same commands. git config --global user.name "<github user>" git config --global user.name > <...
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Can not clone a repository with ssh from bitbucket

I have a bit bucket repository and I am trying to clone it using SSH. I followed the instruction here: https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/set-up-an-ssh-key/ and I can get see that I ...
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Clone CentOS 7 into an ISO image

How can I create a clone of my CentOS 7 server(with all custom apps and settings included) and create an ISO image out of it? I am trying to move the physical server onto the cloud and needs a ISO img ...
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Clone RAID 1 array to single HDD - Linux (OpenSuse)

I have a server with a hardware made RAID 1 array (Adaptec board). The array is composed of 2 SSD and the OS id OpenSuse Linux. I want to clone the array on a single SSD and make it bootable. I ...
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Why will Windows boot from one external drive but not another?

I have read in the past that Windows won't boot from an external drive. Recently I changed laptops and I now have the old hard drive (V-NAND SATA) in a usb enclosure. It turns out that the new laptop ...
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Deleted Partitions on old drive causing OS on new one to no longer boot

To make a long story short, I made a pretty big mistake. I recently upgraded from a 500gb SATA SSD to a 2tb m.2 drive. I used software to clone the drive, and all of its partitions, to the new drive, ...
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How to clone a linux server hard drive that it fails , so in case sometning goes wrong during a fix I still have the original hard drive? [duplicate]

My problem is that I have a hard drive having a linux server (It fails during booting up process) and some valuable files. ( tried almost all solutions on the internet but no success) Now I found a ...
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How to clone PC without Intel Optane to a PC with Intel Optane

I am a computer tech and have cloned PCs for years, even wrote my own software to do it. For a few years now, I've ran in to boot issues after cloning from a non Intel Optane PC to an Intel Optane ...
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Cloned Windows 10 won't boot

Issue: Windows 10 clones to same disk/different SSD won't boot. Why: I've got a M.2 NVMe with the following structure: 300 MB Recovery Partition 100 MB EFI System Partition Windows 8.1 Unallocated ...
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UEFI Windows cannot boot - bootlog comparison

I had a linux+windows dual boot system with shared UEFI partition. My disk looked like this Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/nvme1n1p1 2048 534527 532480 ...
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Black screen after cloning just the Windows System Partition

On my laptop I have a UEFI dual-boot system windows+arch linux with both systems encrypted - the Windows with the VeraCrypt and the linux with LUKS - I followed this guide. At the end my disk looked ...
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Is it possible to clone only used space (data) in an lvm volume as if it were a physical disk?

I have several lvm volumes configured to be treated in virtual machines as hard disks. The lvm volume is partitioned on the guest operating system and partitions can be checked with fdisk on the guest ...
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Some issues with cloning Windows 11 Home installation disk

This might be a kind of unique case, but I am more familiar with Linux and thus a little bit lost. Backstory: I bought a new PC (HP OMEN) which came with Win11 Home preinstalled on an NVMe. My Plan is ...
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Make an exact copy of system / computer on Windows 11

I have two very similar laptops. I just spent 3 - 4 days configuring one of them how I want it (deleting all the bloatware, installing software etc.) Is there an official way to clone / copy all of ...
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Cloning my old Crucial SSD to my new computer BUT don't want to clone the operatring system?

My new computer has a up to date windows operating system that I wish to retain. But I want to clone my old (Crucial SSD) without the old operating system. How would I do this?
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How can I reliably detect if a Hard Drive is corrupted?

My boss is concerned that I inadvertantly corrupted a hard-to-configure source hard disk while doing a disk clone. I do not believe the drive is corrupted, as it seems to function perfectly in every ...
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Clone windows hard disk and resize ntfs partitions from linux

I have a 500gb hard disk with two main NTFS partitions, one for a Windows OS and the other for data for use by that OS as well as the boot partition at the beginning of the disk. The data partition is ...
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copy windows from unbootable ssd to new ssd

I have an Smasung evo 850 SSD which has become unbootable. I have installed a new EVO870 and installed windows 10. The old SSD is visible in windows file explorer and appears to be fine when checking ...
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I'm having problems after cloning my HDD

Preamble: I'm completely new to this. I've just cloned my HDD (in the image Disco 1 to Disco 2) using Macrium Reflect. The cloning process went fine but when I tried to replace the hard drive the ...
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"edac sbridge couldn't find mci handler" After cloning Ubuntu system drive

I tried to clone an Ubuntu 22.10 system hard drive from a 2TB 3.5" SATA hard drive to 2TB partition on a 4 TB 2.5" SATA SSD and when booting from the clone, the system shows: edac sbridge ...
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Clonezilla multiple image copies

I have made an image of my laptop with Clonezilla on an external usb drive. Can I copy that image on another usb drive in order to have a second image copy? Or I have to reclone the hard disk on the ...
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Trying to clone my old drive to a newer one, but everything I have tried is either too slow or just quits

I am trying to clone a 2tb external drive to another 2tb external drive, the original drive has many corrupted files (due to bad reads) and results in CRC (cyclic redundancy check) errors, which ...
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Cloned NVMe drive not being recognized as a bootable drive on an Asus Q525U laptop

I have an Asus Q525U laptop with Windows 10. It originally came with a hard disk drive, but has an empty slot for an NVMe SSD, which I wanted to use to increase system performance. I opened the system ...
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Lost admin access after disk clone although can still log in but just cannot access anything that needs admin rights

I have a very strange and annoying problem. My 128GB SSD drive which was the boot drive with Windows 7 pro installed was full so I got a 1TB SSD and cloned the old drive to the new one using minitool ...
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OS-update in VMWare "Template VM" - possible to propagate to the LINK:ed VM:s?

OS-update in VMWare "Template VM" - possible to propagate to the LINK:ed VM:s? To elaborate; using VMware Workstation 15 Pro I have a Windows 10 "Template" from which I have ...
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How to clone only the Windows 7 system drive C: to new bootable SSD without cloning the data from separate drive F:?

This question is similar to my situation but does not provide a definitive answer: How can I transfer Windows from a partition of an existing hard drive to a new (smaller) SSD? It says clone the C: ...
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How can I clone a Windows 10 disk onto a larger disk?

I have bought a larger SSD for my Windows 10 machine and an external USB enclosure and now I would like to transfer the content of the Windows 10 system disk onto the new SSD and eventually replace ...
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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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