Cloning disks...

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Bleurgh. I am a little tired, and this is a stupid question, but is there no other way to clone HDD's than making a bootable image of stuff like that Easus? I just got my c300 through the post and have waaay to many programs to even think about reinstalling windows.

Thanks for your help guys :)
 
Could you name some please, I will be requiring something like this when I get me C400 in Q1 this year. Willing to pay as I can't really afford a reinstall!
 
acronis true image home will do a direct clone it will also allow you to change partition sizes :) It comes with a trial if i remember righty and is very easy to use.

There is also a free tool I have used when I am desperate, its not quite as good but will do the job its called MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition. The software is very similar to Paragon Partition manager (which is a similar but better bit of paid software).

That should give you a good start but Acronis is the one to go for.
 
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get a ubuntu live cd, boot in to it and run

sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=16M

where sda is the name for the source drive and sdb is the name for the destination
 
I've just tried cloning a disk using acronis. It reboots and goes into a dos style format. Goes to 50% then just shuts down... Trying to transfer from my old wd250gb hd to my new samsung f3 1tb as theres far too many programs to reinstall.
 
VinceB1 said:
acronis true image home will do a direct clone it will also allow you to change partition sizes :) It comes with a trial if i remember righty and is very easy to use.

There is also a free tool I have used when I am desperate, its not quite as good but will do the job its called MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition. The software is very similar to Paragon Partition manager (which is a similar but better bit of paid software).

That should give you a good start but Acronis is the one to go for.
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Free/trial acronis no longer lets you clone disks. At least, it didn't a few months back!
 
PhillyDee said:
Free/trial acronis no longer lets you clone disks. At least, it didn't a few months back!
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Ahh I didn't know that, I have had a corporate version for a good few years now so generally use that. In the office I also have one of those dual sata usb hot docks which makes cloning drives a peice of cake. With acronis I use a seperate machine from the one that im replacing the disks on and put the source and destination disks in the hot dock, that way I am not cloning the disk im also running from. I find doing it this way tends to not only be faster but is also more reliable.
 
Another quick question...

Would I be able to save the image to the formatted SSD on a 100mb partition, boot from that and then clone my C drive to the rest of the SSD?

Cheers guys for the help, much appreciated :)
 
acronis true image home 30 day trial will let you create a partition image and a bootable cd/usb which after formatting your ssd in win 7/win 7 setup you boot to acronis and then just tell it to restore your image. Win 7 itself can also do this, no need to clone the disk, just take an image of it.

I know it can do this as I did it 3 days ago and I hadnt put my code in it yet.
 
Cheers guys, found out one of my friends had Acronis, which he didn't need anymore, going to clone it in a bit :)
 
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