Questions tagged [cloning]
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How do I clone a larger drive on to a smaller one
Can Todo Backup clone from a 500 GB hard drive to a 120 GB? The 500 contains the OS plus 15 applications. The 120 is empty. A second 120 only contains the OS. I can clone using either.
Todo says the ...
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Cloned HDD won't boot neither will the original
I tried cloning for the first time using Macrium Reflect. The clone seemed to go okay but when I tried to boot from the new HDD nothing would happen, I would just get a blank screen. So I put back ...
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Can't boot Windows 8.1 after cloning from HDD to SSD
I have been running into this issue sometimes when cloning HDDs to new SSDs and was wondering is anyone had some ideas; I use EaseUS backup normally to clone disks and any Windows 7 one will work fine,...
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Cloning Cloned HDD's
One thing I do for my job team is create master hard drives for a software platform that they develop for. We get these installer disks that are inserted into a machine (laptops in this case), which ...
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Windows system drive cloning - but without copying garbage data
I am in the process of upgrading my computer to a larger SSD as Windows system drive.
My problem is that the old SSD has a very annoying trait of choosing some random old data to present for deleted ...
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How to clone SSD on PC while OS is running?
I have on my PC an Intel 120 GB SSD (the Windows drive) and a 1 TB HDD. I want to replace the Intel 120 GB SSD with a Crucial 256 GB SSD (and after that use the Intel drive as a third drive).
How can ...
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Unable to boot WIN7 from 2nd disc after cloning it with Aomei
I have an external hard drive (drive P=1.5TB) + two internal hard drives (drive C=2TB and drive D=1TB). All drives are 75% free.
I have upgraded my D drive from Vista to WIN 7 and cleaned up the D ...
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How to clone a VM, without purchasing additional tool? [closed]
I am looking for a free way to clone a machine in vsphere.
I am using ESXI 5.0, I cannot seem to find that option.
All my research lead to commercial packages.
Do I need to pay to have that feature?...
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Cloning win 7 32 bit from HD to SSD Macrium reports incompatible sector size
Created a drive image of Win 7 Prof 32 bit on an HP 6930P laptop from the internal Seagate 160Gb HD on to a USB 3 TB Toshiba HD with Macrium (5.something,latest free download) and verified.
Bought ...
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Does cloning clone also the old MAC address?
If I clone my Linux system to other computers will this also clone the old MAC address to the new computers?
EDIT: due to the answer below
I really know what is a MAC address... And sure Linux is a ...
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Impersonating Router [closed]
Is it possible to completely(mean what type of network device from vendor id) impersonate Router as computer or laptop by cloning mac address of the computer or laptop ?
Whether it is possible to know ...
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Is there a way to image or clone a Windows 8 tablet that runs off eMMC storage?
I am attempting to image or clone Windows 8 tablets that run off eMMC storage. The specific device in use in an Asus Vivotab Smart that runs Windows 8 Core.
Having attempted traditional imaging ...
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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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How can I "snapshot" an Ubuntu Server installation and deploy it to multiple other machines
I am a web developer and frequently have to set up and configure virtual machines and dedicated machines (almost always on Ubuntu Server installations).
I was wondering if there was an effective and ...
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How to clone a SD card from HP network attached photosmart printer using Linux?
How to make a low level (file system unaware) cloning of a SD card inserted in an HP Photosmart printer, which is accessible via a local network ?
smb://192.168.1.58
(192.168.1.58 is my printer IP)
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