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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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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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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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Samsung NVMe 2TB drive "toast"?
I've had this drive as my OS+data drive for about 10 months. It just apparently died on me. The computer was running Windows 10 and had a BSOD. When I booted it up, the drive was detected but not ...
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Creating a Master Image to roll out to 30 new Machines Licensing Issues
At my company we are buying 30 new Identical PC's from Dell so we have standard setup.
What i want to know is if its possible to configure one of these machines to our specification as a master and ...
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Issues cloning MacOS drive into smaller one
I am trying to move my OS X install to a smaller disk because I plan to move to another OS, but this is taking much longer than planned so I hope someone can help me here.
The SSD that now holds OS X ...
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Clonezilla disk check incredibly slow
I am doing backup of my entire disk to image stored on another HDD connected via USB. Creating images went relatively fast (~700-1000 MB/min) but checking afterwards is slooow: 7MB/min. Which means ~...
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Clone laptop SSD to bigger SSD via USB HDD - Windows 7
What would be the easiest way to do the above, having in mind that the usb HDD is not empty (but it has more than enough room for the SSD contents) and that it doesn't have a OS, and also, that I don'...
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Trouble Cloning Hard Drive with Clonezilla
I'm trying to transfer a 2TB drive to a 4TB drive with Clonezilla. The problem is that the transfer speeds are progressively slowing down.
Initially the status bar said that the clone would finish in ...
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Periodic slow performance after cloning from SSD to HDD
A user was complaining about C: Partition size and refused to reduce his personal content on the drive. At the time he had a SSD and we only had spare HDD of larger size. All parties agreed to replace ...
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How can I identify bad sectors on a hard drive to check if files are affected? [duplicate]
Last week a six year old Vista desktop blue screened with a registry error. Rebooting, it loaded fine. I ran SeaTools on the drive (Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB) and it said that I should replace the ...
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What needs to be done to a target hard drive before using Clonezilla for disk-to-disk bootable clone?
My 500GB hard drive reported a failure to Windows (I have Windows 7) and I want to clone this drive to a good 1TB drive before the 500GB drive stops working. I have been reading the manuals on how to ...
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Clonezilla/partclone of an NTFS partition sees too much used space
I'm cloning an HDD using Clonezilla (which in turn uses partclone). When it reaches an NTFS partition of mine, it thinks the partition has many tens of GB of used space, despite the fact that the ...
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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 CD to backup a hard disk?
There are lots of tools like FoG, G4L, PING, CloneZilla, etc. which allow you to boot from a CD/USB-key and follow some on-screen menus to backup your hard disk to an FTP server, SSH server, or file-...
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