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IT Forum >> Help cloning a hard drive please
| 9/4/12 8:57 PM | |
donnie
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Member Since: 1/1/01 Posts: 2079 |
The hard drive in my laptop is going to crap. If I get a new hard drive, what is the easiest way to transfer everything to the new disk? I found xxclone to look like a good solution. http://www.xxclone.com/iwhatis.htm Thoughts please. |
| 9/5/12 1:52 AM | |
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devnull
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Member Since: 9/14/11 Posts: 229 |
I don't often have to do that but I usually use a similar app on live cd when I need to do cloning on bad hard drives. Cloning the drive and then doing a check disk could be a way to transfer your data. Heard great things about clonezilla. http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/clonezilla-live.php http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/clonezilla-live-doc.php |
| 9/5/12 11:19 PM | |
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devnull
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Member Since: 9/14/11 Posts: 231 |
mnbvcxzchewy - dd - free and easy to use, in ubuntu/debian dd is good, but I'm not sure it's not for joe regular windows user. If the guy knows enough about computers to clone with dd he most likely already knows about dd. |
| 9/6/12 10:39 AM | |
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MaddogMorgan
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Member Since: 11/27/06 Posts: 1305 |
Do you have to set block size at 512? It'll be a slow clone. It's also the default size DD uses. dd is kick ass as it's on every BSD/unix system... so good. Clonezilla is the shit. I use it all the time. It's straight forward. Just follow the prompts. |
| 9/9/12 2:50 PM | |
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crobrun
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Member Since: 1/1/01 Posts: 3091 |
what OS? |
| 9/10/12 12:17 AM | |
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donnie
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Member Since: 1/1/01 Posts: 2080 |
Windows 7 64bit. I'll check out Clonezilla first. Thanks for the suggestions. |
| 9/10/12 7:58 AM | |
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crobrun
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Member Since: 1/1/01 Posts: 3093 |
Have you tried windows backup? Or has the drive failed already? |
| 9/10/12 7:38 PM | |
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donnie
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Member Since: 1/1/01 Posts: 2082 |
crobrun - Have you tried windows backup? Or has the drive failed already? No, it has not failed yet. |
| 9/11/12 9:56 PM | |
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crobrun
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Member Since: 1/1/01 Posts: 3095 |
You can try windows backup and then the restore. Does an image based backup. I've done this before, works pretty well. Make a recovery CD/DVD first! |
| 9/22/12 9:22 AM | |
ipswichross
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Member Since: 2/15/10 Posts: 414 |
Ghost. Old one, but idiot proof. |
| 11/13/12 12:30 PM | |
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NotsoMightySkull
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Member Since: 3/8/05 Posts: 2141 |
make a Hirens boot cd - tons of great tools. http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd There will be a tool on there that will work. It is free. I have used acronis in that past but it is no longer included in the Hirens CD |
| 11/13/12 12:31 PM | |
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NotsoMightySkull
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Member Since: 3/8/05 Posts: 2142 |
oh yeah, manually back up everything important before trying to clone. Never can be too care ful when it comes to data. |
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