cloning

  1. Booting Windows 24H2 with ReFS 3.14 as Native FS

    The question comes about if it is currently possible and stable to install Windows 11 Pro (or Enterprise) on ReFS. Apparently this appears possible based on a Guru3D post: testing instaling windows 11 24h2 build 26100 on reFS I currently have converted my D drive to ReFS by copying all files to...
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    Reinstall of Windows 10 then everything hacks

    Hello I have an issue with my new installation. I have this setup Asus Maximus VI extreme motherboard Samsung SSD 870 Evo 2 tb for image I7 4770K chip Gskill 16 Gb ram I needed to get a bigger SSD so I clone the old to a new one, but that didn't go so well. The cloning program corrupted the...
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    Windows 10: can't update KB5034763

    New member here, first post. Would like some help/advice with the above. The update downloads, and installs to the restart required. Restart first displays the "working on updates" blue-screen, but at 6% progress, commences to close and reboot. (Normally this reaches the 30% progress point??)...
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    Windows 10 installation

    I have an ASUS laptop with a crippled hard drive. I was planning on cloning the hard drive to a new hard drive and then removing and replacing the hard drives. The problem is that I cannot install any new applications to the hard drive and so my plan to install the software on the existing hard...
  5. Windows 10 Internet working in old drive but not in cloned drive.

    Hi Computer experts. I cloned my hard disk and was working fine but somehow some setting were changed and no internet message start appearing in every network. When I boot and use the old drive, internet is fine. Is there any file, that I can copy from the old drive and past to new drive and the...
  6. Booting a cloned disk

    Hello! I'm trying to clone my 512GB SSD to my much larger 4TB USB hard drive, without disrupting the other partitions. I've tried cloning 3 different ways: GParted, Macrium reflect cloning, and Macrium Reflect image and then restored to the drive. In each case I cannot boot. Though the clone is...
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    Windows won't boot up from ssd unless hdd unplugged

    Greetings! I have windows 11 pro running on a dell laptop i had an nvme storage upgrade few months ago so i cloned my windows onto there, which created two identical options for windows boot manager in the bios boot selection menu , yet windows will always load up from ssd.. everything was...
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    Windows 10 SSD Cloning Software Needed

    Hi guys, I need to clone a HDD to SSD? Tried some online software that claims to be free, however at installation stage, asks for payment of the licence. Is there a genuinely 100% free cloning software available??
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    Windows 10 Problem Installing a m2 SSD to clone windows into.

    Hello everyone, I'm not that knowledgeable on this so please bare with the details. I just brought a nvme to install on my motherboard. After taking out my original memory which was a 250gb nvme with windows installed on it. I cloned windows from the 250gb to a 2tb HDD drive. Im trying to...
  10. Windows 11 Troubleshooting Slow Performance on Refurbished Surface Pro After Cloning

    I'm not sure if this is the right forum for my question... My original Surface Pro stopped charging, so I exchanged it for a refurbished Surface Pro from Microsoft. It is running very slowly on my new machine after I cloned the original. Maybe it's a problem with the machine rather than cloning...
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    Windows 11 Cloning PC slows it down

    Hi not sure if this is the right forum for my query... I have a refurbished Surface Pro from Microsoft which I received as exchange for my original Surface Pro which stopped charging. I cloned the original one to my new machine but it is running very slow. Not sure if this is definitely due to...
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    Windows 10 Clone programs from Windows "regular user account" to "administrator account".

    Dear all, I am looking to clone programs etc from Windows "regular user account" to "administrator account". Basically i want to log with administrator account and have everything exactly the way i have with the user account i use now. The reason for moving to administrator account is because...
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    Windows 11 images and cloning

    I have been imaging my system to avoid having to install. It comes in handy as long as the drive is healthy. Should I keep a clone also in case of drive failure or is it better to clean install when the drive fails..
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    Windows 7 Cloning / formatting a recovery drive

    My computer is working fine (for now). I have some empty 500 gb drives. I have one empty sata port left on my rather old desktop mobo. What's the easiest way to format (guess I'd have to do that) and create a second backup drive with all my data on it. I probably asked this on some other...
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    Windows 10 Secure Boot.

    Hello. I do a lot of cloning on all my machines, so far so good. I recently planned ahead and got a new laptop, to be able to go to W-11. Of course, I got one with Secure Boot. I am unable to do a clone any more as Acronis tries to boot from its USB media disk. I succeeded in getting rid of...
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    What Software clones Internal SSD to External SSD?

    Hi all, Samsung Data Migration does an exact clone of an existing internal drive to another 2nd internal drive. But not to an external SSD! This means Windows Boot Manager boots the 2nd internal drive; and all programs and files are there! What software allows me to do an exact clone of my...
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    Cloning and Bitlocker on USB Stick vs External SSD.

    Dear community, I am hoping to get answers from users who have done this with success. Because of the smaller form factor, I prefer to get a USB-C "1TB USB Stick" than a "Small sized External SSD". The fact deletion of files from USB stick don't go to recycle bin, does not bother me! Question...
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    Restoring C Drive from a clone

    I have a Lenovo AIO 730S-24IKB computer running Windows 10. The computer has 2TB on-board M.2 PCIe SSD storage (Drive C) and a 1TB SSD 2.5" drive (Drive D). The OS is on dive C I create weekly backups of both C and D using Ashampoo software onto an external usb 4TB HDD and I also regularly...
  19. Windows 10 Windows Boot Manager

    I'm running Windows 10 Home with all updates on my Dell XPS 13 9380 I'm trying to upgrade my SSD to accommodate large astrophotography files, from 512GB to 1TB. I have tried both AOMEI Backupper and EaseUS to clone the NVMe drive, with the same result. I cannot get the new SSD to boot, and...
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    Sysprep seems to reset susclientid when other articles I read says it doesnt

    How is susclientid generated? If you sysprep it seems to gen a new Id when you check windows update If you clone a machine without sysprep that has a Susclientid it keeps it when checking windows update. If you delete susclientid it regens a new one Does sysprep clear the susclientid and is...