SSD Cloning Software

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I'm thinking of purchasing a v+200 tomorrow, I understand these are the bare versions and will need sata toUSB cables and cloning software in order to put it into my old laptop. So my question is where can I get these/ what cloning software does anyone recommend?
 
I used Macrium Reflect for my new vertex 4, connected it to my pc, cloned my old M225 to it then used windows diskmgmt to extend the partition to fill the full drive.
 
Ive used Acronis clone and stuff in the past and they are not as good as Windows 7 backup and restore.

Personally I would install Windows on it fresh and move the other required files from your old drive(s)
 
Guest2 said:
Ive used Acronis clone and stuff in the past and they are not as good as Windows 7 backup and restore.
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Interesting. In what way is not as good?

Tools like Acronis True Image (and I've used version 9, 2010 and now 2012) are fully featured backup and recovery applications. I suppose a lot though depends on what out of the vast feature set that these sorts of application offer, that an individual would/are interested in. :)
 
Guest2 said:
Ive used Acronis clone and stuff in the past and they are not as good as Windows 7 backup and restore.

Personally I would install Windows on it fresh and move the other required files from your old drive(s)
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It's an old vista laptop I'm giving to my brother and haven't got OS disks. He said he didn't want it if it runs as slow as it does. Never fiddled with laptops before hence the question :p
 
mikeo said:
Interesting. In what way is not as good?

Tools like Acronis True Image (and I've used version 9, 2010 and now 2012) are fully featured backup and recovery applications. I suppose a lot though depends on what out of the vast feature set that these sorts of application offer, that an individual would/are interested in. :)
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I wanted to make and ISO backup that I could move around instead of cloning. I couldnt find where to do this in Acronis. You can make a .nrg file or something but not an ISO

Apart from the added cost of the software, a full clone of SSD to mechanical then mechanical to SSD causes problems (at least it did for me)

With windows backup and recovery, its free and can create an ISO backup to mechanical. You can then move the folder with image and boot records to another drive and it works fine
 
scwba06 said:
It's an old vista laptop I'm giving to my brother and haven't got OS disks. He said he didn't want it if it runs as slow as it does. Never fiddled with laptops before hence the question :p
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Vista is a pile of poo, I wouldnt recommend infecting a nice new SSD with it. Install Windows 7 x64, it only take a few minutes on a decent SSD

edit - personally Ive got a mechanical drive with media and programs on. Drivers, Apps, Benchmarking. Then an image of my OS with programs, updates and a couple of games installed

The only problem I have is the updates for windows are that big it would take me weeks to fully update (new internet speed is 100-200kb/s download)
 
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Guest2 said:
I wanted to make and ISO backup that I could move around instead of cloning. I couldnt find where to do this in Acronis. You can make a .nrg file or something but not an ISO

Apart from the added cost of the software, a full clone of SSD to mechanical then mechanical to SSD causes problems (at least it did for me)

With windows backup and recovery, its free and can create an ISO backup to mechanical. You can then move the folder with image and boot records to another drive and it works fine
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Fair enough. As I said, depends a lot on what you want to do. If not interested in it as part of a fully fledged backup/recovery strategy and just interested in cloning (or one particular aspect), then probably not the tool for you. Especially as there are quite a few free cloning tools out there.

Acronis TI 2012 should be fully SSD friendly now. Can't say I've used the cloning tool though. Backup/recovery is pretty much the recommended way to migrate from one drive to another and that works faultlessly from SSD-SSD, SSD-HD and HD-SSD (done it myself). The usual problem is partition alignment and that should have been nailed from version 2011 onwards.
 
Guest2 said:
Vista is a pile of poo, I wouldnt recommend infecting a nice new SSD with it. Install Windows 7 x64, it only take a few minutes on a decent SSD

edit - personally Ive got a mechanical drive with media and programs on. Drivers, Apps, Benchmarking. Then an image of my OS with programs, updates and a couple of games installed

The only problem I have is the updates for windows are that big it would take me weeks to fully update (new internet speed is 100-200kb/s download)
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I haven't got a spare windows 7 lying around either though. Laptop is ancient, about 5 years old, would be a waste of money getting widows 7 specifically for it. It's a case of passing it on or just binning it. Might aswell give it a new lease of life by wacking an ssd into it keep it as a utility laptop
 
Fair play - does vista come with a backup and restore utility?

Acronis costs money itself so may as well get vista onto the laptop ssd for free
 
Guest2 said:
Fair play - does vista come with a backup and restore utility?

Acronis costs money itself so may as well get vista onto the laptop ssd for free
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I think so but knowing vista it's probably buggy as hell. Il just grab an ssd kit as that'll include software
 
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