Monday, November 28, 2016

Cloning Hard Disk

The following article recommend Macrium Reflect Free
http://www.ghacks.net/2015/08/29/the-best-way-to-clone-a-hard-drive-least-time-consuming-error-prone/

Get here
http://www.ghacks.net/2015/08/29/the-best-way-to-clone-a-hard-drive-least-time-consuming-error-prone/

Note, it is performed installing in to Windows and running there in live environment.


  • Comment there: I've used Macrium Reflect on a bunch of Windows 7 systems, with both BIOSes and UEFIs, with both MBR and GPT drives, and with both internally mounted drives and external USB-mounted drives, and I haven't run into any problems yet (that I can recall, and I probably would if I had). However, the vast majority of what I've done has been cloning, not imaging, so I'm not a reliable judge of Macrium Reflect's imaging performance.


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Comments recommend AOMEI

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Third option, in comments:


  • DriveImage XML = Free, lightweight, bulletproof and easy to use.
  1. http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htm
  2. I have cloned 2 SSD's by plugging into a USB2.0 drive enclosure and they will boot from an AHCI enabled system.
  3. Usually can't boot AHCI when I use a USB 2.0 plugin to setup a drive.

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