Questions tagged [disk-cloning]
For questions regarding cloning or imaging a partition/file system from one device to another.
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Disk cloning - How much data will it actually copy?
I am cloning a disk of size 500GB. Disk is not full of data. It has roughly 300GB data. How much actual data it will copy (how much read, and how much write specifically)? What if cloning utility ...
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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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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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VBoxManage Clonemedium disk [duplicate]
For context, I'm trying to shrink a specific virtualbox image virtual disk size because I don't want to to dedicate 120Gb of storage whenever someone tries to add it to their own machine. I've ...
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How to ensure cloned hard-drive is not traceable to original
I need help understanding what identifying information on a cloned hard drive needs to be changed in order to remove any trace back to the original hard drive.
I would think the IP address and MAC ...
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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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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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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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Is the Lenovo U430 Touch Model a 64 bit or 32 bit processor?
Is the Lenovo model U430 touchscreen come with a 32 or a 64 bit processor?
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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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Trying to Clone Hard Drive to SSD Using a Third Hard Drive
I've recently purchased a Samsung 870 EVO SSD to replace the HDD inside my laptop. To clone the drive inside my laptop to the SSD, I found that I can purchase a SATA to USB cable to facilitate the ...
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How do I clone a disk drive with bad sectors?
Current old failing disk: micron c400 512gb 2.5" SATA III
Main and only boot device on Dell XPS L521X 15" running Windows 10 Pro. BSODs and boot failures every few weeks due to bad sectors.
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Copying a VHD to a physical disk
I've seen a lot of guides on how to do physical -> VHD, but is there any way to easily move a VHD image to a physical disk easily? Or should I just attach the disk and go to town with GNU DD?
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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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Full clone from one host to another
I have a headless mini-pc running Ubuntu Server 18.04 - nothing special, just a "Beelink Gemini X55" 8GB RAM, 128Gb SSD. Its benchmark's are quite impressive compared to VPS alternatives and even ...
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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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Cloning a 512 bytes per sector HDD to a 4096 bytes per sector SSD
I bought a new SSD to replace my traditional HDD on my Windows 10 laptop. However, it seems my HDD is 512 bytes per sector (from msinfo32) and I cannot format the SSD to anything less than 4096 bytes ...
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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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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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I cloned Windows to a larger SSD and computer won't show additional storage, no unallocated partition
I wanted to upgrade my laptop with a double sized SSD so I have cloned Windows from the old one to the new one. From about 223GB (officially I think 250) to 500GB.
I followed and online tutorial on ...
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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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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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Clone disk over network
I need to clone one laptop's drive to another one which is basically the same built.
They are M.2 PCIe drives so even if I wanted to open the laptops I can't currently find USB connectors for them.
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Need to make an exact copy of HDD
I use Ubuntu 16.04 (Desktop edition). I made an image of a whole disk by using Clonezilla. I've got my servers running on Ubuntu and I want to have a duplicate hard drive in case the old drive fails.
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How to clone old small SSD into new larger replacement SSD in a laptop
I have a Thinkpad with a 500GB SSD, and it's split into a dual-boot of a 100GB Windows 10 partition and a 400GB Ubuntu partition. (Note: I'm comfortable nuking the 100GB Windows partition because ...
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Shadow copies not included after a Windows 7 system restore from system image using Backup and Restore
I want to transfer a Windows 7 install from a 500 GB HDD to a SSD, including the shadow copies (and thus the restore points, previous versions of files, etc.).
The source disk has 4 partitions, and ...
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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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want to know where i can verify if my system was cloned without my knowledge
Hi I followed instuctions to restore my gateway updater but when I tried it again it's still not going through. It's just trying to check for updates then stops without saying no updates are available ...
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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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Cloning Ubuntu from one device directly to another device
my colleague is recently asking me how can he clone a Ubuntu 20.04 SSD disk to another new device using M2 or NVME disk and run all programs and data in new device. What software can be used to make ...
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How do you clone unformatted or unallocated disk with bad sector?
So I have an SSD, Kingston 240GB. The installed OS is Ubuntu, and this has been running for three years. Today, it failed to boot. “Reboot and select proper Boot Device” , that's what I get when I ...
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Windows 10 error 0xc000021a after ssd upgrade
I recently upgraded my hdd for an ssd and cloned my hdd using acronis software which came with my crucial ssd. System stopped booting after i completed the installation i am seeing the blue screen ...
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Windows 10 clone fails to boot from 2.5” SSD USB 3.0 Enclosure (USB to ATA/ATAPI Bridge)
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UEFI-only laptop with Startup Manager (boot volume can be selected on boot)
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Laptop's internal NVMe AHCI SSD (soldered to motherboard), 500 GB
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Cloning vs fresh install [closed]
I have to create roughly 3-5 systems a year which ship with software A. They use the same base Linux Debian operating system with the same modules and settings, though A's version and database ...
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How to make a standard image/installation for an new PC in AD?
Surely, there must be a way to clone the programs/configurations of one PC to another one, such that the new PC can be installed automatically in Active Directory.
You cannot configure 100 new PCs by ...
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Windows refuses to shrink volume beyond a certain limit, but I need to clone the data, what do I do?
My old hard drive, that I am currently using, is about 600GB and my new SSD is 500gb.
My actual data is only about 70GB to be cloned. However I learned that I have to shrink the volume to be able to ...
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Why do I have to clone a disk from live USB?
Why do I have to clone a disk by running a live USB (with programs such as Clonezilla .iso) ?
I don't understand it, its just copying, why can't I do it while windows is running?
I would like to ...
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Disc clone failure - Software says destination drive is in use when it's not
I am trying to clone my C drive (120 GB) to my D drive (2TB). My AOMEI Backupper Pro is saying that my cloning destination drive is in use, and keeps asking me if I want to 'continue' in 'restart mode'...
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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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Cloned SSD won't boot Windows 8, shows "Your PC/Device needs to be repaired"
A friend of mine asked me to help him migrate his original HDD to an SSD (Crucial MX500 480GB) he bought. He's using a 27" HP Envy Recline Touchsmart All-in-one PC.
So I went and used the same ...
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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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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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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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"This feature is not available in a portable workstation environment." error
After cloning Windows 10 to an SSD, Windows 10 keeps opening dialog boxes with the message "This feature is not available in a portable workstation environment".
They also appear when I try to use "...
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Weird partitions after cloning my disk to SSD
To start, I have three partitions on my disk, don't aske me why, I took this HDD years ago from my older PC then upgraded the O.S. twice, one from XP to W7 then from W7 to W10 and I'm so much grate ...
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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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How to change a drive letter that has Program Files
I have a small SSD C:\ drive and therefore have installed most of my programs on a second drive D:. I now want to replace that platter drive with an M.2 SSD for improved performance. I have cloned ...
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