disk cloning

I have an SSD installation question. I am installing a new SSD in an HP Pavilion Dv3-2157cl laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium currently installed on the hard drive. I put the SSD in a HDD Dock (USB), then used EseUS "Partition Clone" and cloned the main partition of drive C to the SSD (I...

Hello there, My Uncle bought a new HDD and wanted to migrate his Windows 7 Installation from its original HDD to the new one (Maxtor to Hitachi). A tech friend of mine recommended CloneZilla, a freeware imaging program which would allow me to make an image of the HDD and transfer it to another...

Hi all, copied a hard drive using parted magic. I believe i need to edit a boot.ini file? Or was that something for XP? been a while since i upgraded a hard drive so i dont remember exactly what i did last time. Only thing i seem to remember clearly was to NOT plug both drives in once i...

Can I create a backup laptop hard drive using Windows 7 Backup? I'm hoping to create an HD that will be an exact replica of the one in my machine, so that if it crashes I can simply replace it with the backup HD and there will be no differences at all. When I tried to do this, the new HD had...

My 160 GB Win7 drive on my laptop failed (single partition), but thankfully I had a backup that I created on a 750 GB drive using EASUS Partition Master COPY. The backup drive is FULLY BOOTABLE, I've been booting into Windows 7 from an eSata external interface with no issues. It has a partition...

Hello im hoping someone can help me. I was cloning a Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit install HDD on my HP Laptop and when it was done i removed the usb without safley removing it in the system tray. Now when i boot up (with the original HDD) i get an error: Windows failed to start. A Recent hardware or...

Is it possible to transfer everything from an old computer to a new one so it is like a mirror image? For example if I was using an Acer and wanted it to mirror image everything onto a Dell? Thanks in advance.

on my laptop, running the grub bootloader, debian as the main os, and windows 7 as the secondary, how can i ghost it to a larger drive (from 250 split into two partitions, into 500 split into 2 partitions, 250 gigs for each)? im wondering this, because when i ghost the drive using norton ghost...

I upgraded my Lenovo laptop from Vista Ultimate 32-bit to W7 Pro 64-bit. I used a retail upgrade as Lenovo won't supply a 64-bit upgrade for a 32-bit preloaded system. I should have known that when I ordered the laptop, but I didn't. The upgrade (clean install) on a new 'cloned' HDD worked just...

I normally have acronis do a complete clone of my drive daily. If I bitlock the drive and then try to clone, will the clone know the key & work perfectly or not? If not, is there a way to get this to work? Can I access the bitlock drive from another computer on my peer to peer network with the...

Is there any way to restore a system image to a new SMALLER drive than that from which it was created, even though the image size is much smaller than the new drive? According to the help file it's not possible. Is there a work around? Maybe I could copy the files across then do a system...

I can't find any info saying whether the backup drive (during a create system image backup) will become a clone of the OS drive, or whether a system image file will be saved on the backup drive. Anyone know? Also, can more than one system image be saved on the backup drive, and can you select...

Hi I wanna a program like as Alcohol 120 % that works on windows 7 x64 . (Virtual Clone Drive / Deamon Tools / Alcohol 120 % & .....) can not work on windows 7 x64 Thanks:rolleyes:

Hi guys it's a bit fiddly to use but this program actuually works Elby Virtual Clone elby Virtual CloneDrive - Free ISO Mounting Utility For Vista - Greg's Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day don't worry about the date on the blog -- the software is updated since then and works on W7 X32...

I dont know is this forum correct forum to post this question, if not Mod please move to correct one. - Thanks Question I have is, I am using vista ultimate 32bit, got lot of program installed. I just got a new raptor drive and like to clone everything to a new drive. I used the ghost14, copy...