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On a new PC with PCI 4.0 express SSD: Cloning or new install of Windows? Any performance differences? [closed]

I recently received a new laptop, my old one is really in a stage in which productive work is not possible anymore. The new laptop is equipped with an Nvidia GTX 4080 12 Gb and a 12900 processor and ...
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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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Restore Partitioning from Clonezilla Backup

My HDD has been getting progressively worse. Latterly, my sda1 EFI partition got deleted; I have created a new partition in the same place, and it is now sda11 (albeit shown at the beginning). I wish ...
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Can't restore Windows 10 home image into a new HP laptop

I am using clonezilla for some months now to restore Windows 10 Home images to our production laptops (HP 15-bs190nd). Recently we bought some new laptops (HP 250 G8) and I am trying to restore the ...
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Should I clone unrecognized partition in disk?

I am planning to replace my HDD with an SSD. I am using Macrium Reflect to copy all the data from the HDD to the SSD. But I see a partition that is 7.63GB in size and I don’t know if I need to copy it ...
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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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How to raw copy an HDD to another one

I need to backup an HDD in raw mode. I want to backup all data, partition tables, boot and so on. I have tried Clonezilla but it fails because of a dirty bit on a NTFS volume. I woruld like to migrate ...
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Clone two different internal disks into one external

I want to clone two internal (SSD+HDD) into one external HDD. In HP x360 laptop I have two hard disks. First is SSD (128Gb) partitioned as GPT and it has Win 10 installed on it (with Recovery, EFI Sys ...
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(Windows 10 + GParted) How do I rearrange disk partitions to I can merge free space to my main partition?

I had a 120 GB SSD with my OS, some software, and some files. I used Clonezilla to make a proportional clone on a 1 TB SSD. Now, the 1 TB SSD shows the following partitions: System Reserved: 500 MB ...
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How to Copy an Operating System to Another HDD?

I found out my hard drive is slowly dying. It's certainly still usable, but I need to copy the operating system to another hard drive, which I don't know how to do. I would like to try to avoid using ...
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Clonezilla failed to clone restore partition/resize issue

I'm trying to clone a Windows 10 Home system (250Gb SSD) on another larger SSD (480Gb) I tought I should have no issues given source/destination sizes but when the cloning finished I've been reported ...
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Cloned GPT drive with Clonezilla to larger drive and can't increase partition size

Cloned GPT drive with Clonezilla to larger drive and can't increase partition size. Before this, I tried to use AOMEI Backupper Standard and experienced the same issue. Tried EaseUS Partition ...
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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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Looking to backup my laptop hdd with clonezilla but concerned about data loss

I have an external HDD with 2 partitions, with one having more than enough space for cloning. if I clone the main partition, will it successfully transfer to the new partition or will the whole ...
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How can I clone a boot drive onto a larger disk using Clonezilla?

I am installing a new internal hard drive into my computer that is larger than the old drive. The complication is that the old drive has the operating system partition on it. I want to clone the ...
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