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Clone Drive Software

Posted on 05/02/2017 11:02:09 AM PDT by Allen In Texas Hill Country

I want to clone the master (C:) drive, segment for segment, so that I can install the duplicate drive in another system and it will boot. See some packages but thought I'd pass it by here too. Kinda low level stuff, any suggestions?


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And thanks.
1 posted on 05/02/2017 11:02:09 AM PDT by Allen In Texas Hill Country
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To: Allen In Texas Hill Country

macrium reflect- one of the fastest most accurate and it’s free- well respected software


2 posted on 05/02/2017 11:05:57 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Allen In Texas Hill Country

http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/aomei-backupper.htm
https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree


3 posted on 05/02/2017 11:07:33 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools. Go Trump!)
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To: Allen In Texas Hill Country

Watch soem youtube videos on ‘macrium reflect raw clone’ for tips- it’s pretty easy to do but a little confusing- their menu isn’t the easiest to do

if you want really simple- I guess many use Aomei cloner- but it’s chinese- i don’t really trust chinese products- but it’s suppsoed to be really simple- it’s free too-


4 posted on 05/02/2017 11:08:38 AM PDT by Bob434
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I’d be happy to find a free Virtual Machine that works on POS Windows 10 Home version, so I could use my VM’s from another machine which had Windoze Professional installed.


5 posted on 05/02/2017 11:13:48 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Bob434

That is what I used too.


6 posted on 05/02/2017 11:15:58 AM PDT by 31R1O
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To: Allen In Texas Hill Country

The new drive needs to be larger than the current drive.


7 posted on 05/02/2017 11:17:38 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: Allen In Texas Hill Country

Very good Debian based cloning software. Works fine for me for Windows as I clone my OS drive to a secondary drive regularly (drive to image) as a backup.

http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php


8 posted on 05/02/2017 11:19:34 AM PDT by brandon24
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To: Allen In Texas Hill Country
Boot some generic linux CD that allows you see both your C: and the new drive. Use the command "dd" to make an exact duplicate.

Trying to duplicate a drive that is "active" is troublesome.

9 posted on 05/02/2017 11:21:45 AM PDT by Cboldt
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i used virtual box when i tried windows 10 it worked fine- was able to use my vm files on windows 10 just fine- it should work for you? I know there is some limitation about having more than one windows install on a machine, but you have the serial number for both, correct? shouldn’t be a problem-


10 posted on 05/02/2017 11:21:52 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Allen In Texas Hill Country

Macrium Reflect Free for home use is what I use to clone my OS on both my desktop and laptop.

The main concern you should have is that the 2 computers have identical hardware so the various drivers on the main computer will work on the clone.

https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree

Macrium Reflect allows you to create a Windows PE DVD and/or Linux DVD version for reinstalling/re-running the program to restore the OS partition.


11 posted on 05/02/2017 11:23:11 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Bob434

I’ll check it out in a few minutes...

Thnx


12 posted on 05/02/2017 11:24:42 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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Macrium? Or the Aomei? I liek Macrium quite a bit- tried a few other ones, like paragon, and a few others- didn’t liek them as much and they were slower- plus i can do it on the fly in windows- without havign to boot into a macrium CD (although i can if needed)- have doens several backups and restores as well as transfers to new hard drive with macrium- worked flawlessly-


13 posted on 05/02/2017 11:25:05 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Allen In Texas Hill Country

For large volume cloning, used Symantec Ghost extensively for years before spinning up SCCM. There is a free trial offer at Symantec.com. This may be way overkill for your requirements, however.


14 posted on 05/02/2017 11:27:53 AM PDT by LakeEffectLad (The bags separated by 90 feet - one of man`s greatest ideas.......)
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macrium reflect

+1 that.

Although...I have tried it on PCs that were not exactly the same hardware and had some issues. It is best to place the image on a drive going into a very similar PC. But I suppose one could boot up and then update or replace the drivers on the dissimilar hardware.

But yes...Macrium rocks.

15 posted on 05/02/2017 11:28:03 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Good judgement comes from experience. And experience? Well, that comes from poor judgement.)
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To: Vendome

VMWare player

https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/free#desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_workstation_player/12_0


16 posted on 05/02/2017 11:28:59 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools. Go Trump!)
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good point Tom=- forgot about that issue- He can always just try it- it might work- won’t cost anythign but a few hours work— I’ve always just cloned my drives onto new ones and switched out my old drive for hte new one in same computer- so no issues with windows screaming about different parts- like when putting drive in whole different computer-


17 posted on 05/02/2017 11:30:03 AM PDT by Bob434
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Trying to duplicate a drive that is "active" is troublesome.

Unless the software uses VSS. Which Macrium Reflect does.

18 posted on 05/02/2017 11:30:13 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Good judgement comes from experience. And experience? Well, that comes from poor judgement.)
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Wait...that can’t be free.

But, sure enough looks like it is.

It’ll run an archived MS VM?

definitely looking at this in a few minutes.


19 posted on 05/02/2017 11:34:18 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Allen In Texas Hill Country

HDD cloning tech bookmark.


20 posted on 05/02/2017 11:38:35 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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