Questions tagged [cloning]
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What is the most efficient, native way to image a Windows partition?
What is the most efficient, native way to image a Windows partition?
Is the native method generally the best method for most users?
How does the native method differ from conventional cloning?
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ReFS Block Cloning - Use command line to copy a file and use block cloning
The Resilient File System (ReFS) introduced block cloning, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/refs/block-cloning.
Let's assume I've a 128 GB ReFS partition and I've a 8 GB ...
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Windows 11 does not boot even in safe mode after cloning
I have a new clear notebook, maked an ssd image on old notebook and restored on new.
On new notebook Windows 11 freezes on booting on startup screen in normal or safe mode.
I trying to enable bootlog, ...
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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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cloning software raid 1 x2 drives of an ubuntu server to many other identical hardware servers
I have an ubuntu server with x2 software raid 1 drives which took nearly 2 hours to set up.
The plan is that we need to make 10 more servers with the same configuration same hardware and number drives ...
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Restoring Windows Apps (UWP) after cloning an internal disk drive
I've just cloned an internal HDD 1TB to a different 2TB disk using Minitool Partition Wizard, also expanding the partition size to the full available space. This computer is running Windows 10 patched ...
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Why can't I boot from my cloned drive?
I am trying to replace an HDD with a SSD on an old Samsung Series 5 Ultra. I have tried cloning the drive multiple ways:
Tried with Macrium - drive wouldn't boot and got stuck in a loop restarting ...
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disk cloning - issue with disk naming and boot
I cloned my internal HDD into a samsung 990 Pro using clonezilla. I am on Windows 10 and both disks are internal. When I open disk management, the old drive "Windows (C:)" shows 476 GB NTFS (...
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Windows 10: Cloning Boot Drive: What to do now
I cloned a 1TB boot drive to another 2 TB drive.
(1) How can I format Disk 0 to use for data?
(2) Disk 1 has 932.05GB unallocated. What to do with them?
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Steam deck ssd clone using dd, while following guide, ran out of battery. How to run command again?
So I was running a dd command to clone the ssd of my steam deck to a new one I have connected externally with an adapter enclosure. Problem is like a dummy I didn’t check my battery before starting ...
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Cloning/copying a complete PC
My home has a high end Home Theater controlled by a small PC with two separate drives (C and D). I will be selling the house some time in the near future (I am 83 years old). I designed the theater ...
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How to clone HDD to an SSD (OS) and HDD (Data)
Is it possible to clone an HDD by moving the OS to a target SSD and all the data to an HDD?
I have a laptop (Let's call it laptop A) running Windows 10 with a 1TB HDD which has very important ...
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Windows 10 clone fails to boot from 2.5” SSD USB 3.0 Enclosure (USB to ATA/ATAPI Bridge)
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Computer used:
UEFI-only laptop with Startup Manager (boot volume can be selected on boot)
Clone source:
Laptop's internal NVMe AHCI SSD (soldered to motherboard), 500 GB
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backup Linux partitions from within Windows 7
So I have Grub Loader installed with Windows and Debian installations.
If I use windows 7 backup to make an image backup of the drive will it also backup the other partitions and software?
In other ...
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I have cloned my SSD to an HDD because the SSD needs reformatting. Do I just clone it back once the SSD is reformatted?
I was told I needed to reformat my SSD from exFAT to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) to increase its performance speed. I use it to produce music and some of my plugins were running real slow. I have ...
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How to clone Windows 10 Home from SATA SSD to new nVME SSD? [duplicate]
Here's my particular situation:
Have a new MSI Codex R desktop which came with a 500 Gb SATA SSD with Win 10 Home. I've booted up, pulled windows update, installed my G513 Carbon keyboard driver and a ...
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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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Windows 10: how to obtain, in another way, same results of Sysprep when it doesn't want to work
In my job, it often happens that I have to replicate a Windows 10 Pro installation, with certain softwares and certain configurations on it, on other computers. Now, usually I use Sysprep for ...
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cloning pendrive to VHD file - need an exact copy including clusters marked in FAT as unused
I need to clone a pendrive to VHD file (preferably for free). I hoped it will be trivial (assuming VHD is not much different conceptually from the file made using dd under Unix, just a sectors copied ...
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Best xxcopy flags for one-time drive mirror/clone?
I’ve settled on xxcopy to do a one-time clone/mirror to my NAS before the source drive is reformatted.
Due to the amount of data and the desire not to impact daytime home usage, it’ll be run as a ...
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Clonezilla won't clone to a smaller disk
According the docs, Clonezilla supports cloning to a smaller drive using the option -icds. Let's cite:
If you are sure all the data from the image could fit the smaller
disk, i.e. it won't be ...
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Dual Operating System using cloning software
If I clone my windows 7 ultimate of a 410 think pad and back it up to a new HP Laptop with windows 10 and using dual Operating systems will it work?
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I cloned my windows ssd and set target ssd as 1st boot priority, but there is no option to load second windows
How can I fix it? I used "macrium reflect" to clone.
Do I need to perform some extra steps now? Why it is not working?
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How to copy an entire server into another server?
I have two Linux servers, A and B. I want to transfer all the data from server A onto B, but I don't want to overwrite any server configurations on server B. What would be the safest and most optimal ...
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Can I take my hard drive, put it in an external case and run the pc from the external hard drive?
My laptop only has one slot and I want to upgrade to an SSD. I'm thinking of cloning while my hard drive is in an external case and the SSD placed in the slot.
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Issue's when cloning to a 64gb USB using a 32GB custom image as the source
I have been doing a lot of research lately in regards to how to clone the file system of one USB to another, and I have accomplished a lot, however I think the final piece of the puzzle is why I cant ...
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Cloning 128GB SSD to a new 240GB SSD [closed]
I suppose this is a duplicate, but I didnt find it. Sorry if it is obvious.
The situation is this. I am installing a new computer with a 128GB SSD, leaving only 40GB of free space. I suppose space ...
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I can boot from a clone, but only when the original drive isn't plugged in
I have a Samsung 850 EVO with Windows 10 installed and a new, blank Samsung 960 EVO. I'd like to move Windows to the 960 since it's faster. Then I can wipe the 850 and use it as extra storage.
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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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Can I transfer a Samsung Evo 850's SSD to another computer?
What I'd like to do is to use the SSD on the new computer I am building, but right now it has a copy of Windows on it from the old computer.
Is there a way to clone the SSD's Windows to another hard ...
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Rsync to sync production to failover
I have server1 as production server.
I have server3 as failover server. Spun up from snapshot of server1.
I have server2 as filebackup server for server one. Role is to be the
workhorse for supporting ...
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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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When cloning a hard drive, does the new hard drive have to be the same model as the older one?
I have a Samsung HD103SJ that's making weird noises when reading and I'd like to replace it. I'ts old, and this HDD costs around $130 on Amazon. I'd rather clone it to a Western Digital Black HDD, ...
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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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Attempt to CLONE Mac OS X HFS+ main drive fails with "Restore Failure An error (32) occurred while copying (Broken Pipe)
For years I have been cloning the main drive on my MacBooks to make bootable external drives. This way I have a (reasonably) up-to-date, bootable, portable external drive that I can plug into any mac ...
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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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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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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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Computer refresh - Efficiently cloning 60 identical computers
To preface my inquiry, I posed a question to the community 3 weeks ago regarding choosing replacement computers for my office of 60 users and had an amazing response. I ended up purchasing 60 HP ...
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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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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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System files missing after copying an SD card in OS X
I copied all my files from a 4 GB to a 16 GB SD card via OS X Finder, and lost quite a bit of system files that my Android can't find. Is there a trick to get everything to transfer?
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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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Unable to clone laptop display on HDTV
I am trying to clone (not extend) my laptop to a Vizio HDTV. Facts:
1-Vizio HDTV
2-Eee Asus laptop
3-Wireless HDMI connection via Nyrius Aries Prime capable of 1080p.
I tried Fn/F8 and Microsoft (...
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Does cloning a drive overwrite all the info on the drive negating the need to zero the drive using a utility like Dban?
If I do a fresh install of XP and then run Eraser 6 (from Source Forge) to overwrite all the free space on the drive won't clonezilla write every bit of info from the cloned image to the new hard ...
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