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Windows 7 & 10 how to make them friends
I need to clone my current installation of Windows 7 to a new computer. I also need to dual boot that with a new installation of Windows 10. The Windows 7 is currently on a BIOS/mbr disk. I don't mind ...
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Clonezilla Win7 Restore C partition to new clean SSD
I have a known-good Clonezilla backup of the C: partition (Windows 7) that I wish to restore to a new, clean SSD drive. (Known-good means that I restored this image a few times before, and the restore ...
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Can't clone a partition, perhaps because of bad sectors
I was trying to clone my Windows 7 system to a new larger HDD. First I was using Macrium Reflect and it failed on system disk partition (Disk C).
I ran CHKDSK C: /r and it did report about 4KB in ...
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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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How do I create a simple unattend.xml so that the image does not ask for a new user?
I'm using one virtual machine and clonezilla to create some testing images to learn a little about deployment in different machine setups.
I already managed to create some images for windows 8.1 and ...
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What is the difference between a Windows system image and a clone?
What is the difference between a Windows system image (generated using Control Panel -> Backup and Restore -> Create a System Image) created in Windows 7 SP1, versus creating a clone using a tool like ...
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Can a partition size be changed between cloning and restoring the clone?
I need to do a full backup of a boot partition of Windows 7. I want to be able to restore it if needed.
My understanding is that the only way to do this is to clone the partition byte-for-byte using ...
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Will this strategy to try Windows 10 work?
A friend wants to try out Windows 10 on a Windows 7 system. But they want the option to go back to exactly how things are now.
Their hard drive is 1TB (platter-based, not SSD), and they don't have a ...
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Cloned system partition on the same hdd, how to make it bootable? W7
Well, system partition was about 30Gb and now its running low, so i cloned the system partition in the same hdd and gave this partition a way more space, so i dont have this kind of problem again. But ...
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How do I deploy Windows 7 to UEFI or really boot in legacy mode?
I used to deploy a windows 7 image to computers using clonezilla, after creating two partitions and setting the bootable flag on the system partition.
Now however, I've got some computers with an ...
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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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Clonezilla stopped. Can "sgdisk -z /dev/sdx" destroy all the data on sda?
I need suggestions.
I wanted to backup sda2 on which Win7 is installed.
I deleted the Recovery Resion.
(Probably Testdisk can restore this partition because I haven't done any manipulation on that ...
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Many problems with windows cloned by clonezilla
After many attempts I've installed a clonezilla image of my old computer on my new notebook but I did this wrong. Windows starts but I need to launch explorer manually, I have the This copy of Windows ...
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Using Clonezilla (or alternate) to make a *partial* full disk image of a multi-partition, multi-boot hdd
So I have a windows multi-boot system with XP installed first, then windows 7. I also have further partitions for user data, etc. I do not fully understand where (and what) data is stored on a pc ...
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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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