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Cloning your hard drive?
leoliger:
I am running out of space in my 160GB laptop and wanting to upgrade to a bigger hard drive, however I'm not to sure how the process works. When it comes to backing up a system I have little to no knowledge. Wanting to backup just in case for future cases of a crash and then just popping in the backup drive like nothing ever happened.
Is it possible to backup or clone an entire drive on your laptop, move all your information, programs etc., to a much bigger one then put that new hard drive into you laptop?
I was planning to use one of these programs to start the process, but I want one's opinion before I do anything.
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/09/05/5-free-apps-to-clone-your-hard-drive/
I was planning on buying an hard drive enclosure, then running one of those programs to copy everything I have on my older laptop hard drive, take the new one out of the enclosure case and putting that into the computer, and then keeping the old one for a spare backup.
Xiong Chiamiov:
If you only have one partition, it makes things a lot easier.
Many years ago, I used a utility that came with a Seagate drive. It worked flawlessly and easily, and it's possible it's still on their site somewhere. I'd probably just go with one of those linked there, though.
leoliger:
--- Quote from: Xiong Chiamiov on July 31, 2010, 07:23:23 PM ---Many years ago, I used a utility that came with a Seagate drive. It worked flawlessly and easily, and it's possible it's still on their site somewhere. I'd probably just go with one of those linked there, though.
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Those would only work on a Seagate product hard drive. The one I wanted is hitachi.
PowerMac:
I use HDClone from Miray. They do have a free version but it limits the cloning speed http://www.miray.de/products/sat.hdclone.html
Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: leoliger on August 01, 2010, 12:03:42 AM ---Those would only work on a Seagate product hard drive. The one I wanted is hitachi.
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Nah, drive brand usually, if not always, does not matter with cloning programs. A drive is a drive.
I've used Symantec Ghost before at a job I had for a work term earlier this year. It's a great program, but it requires networking that I'm unfamiliar with, and also a place to store the drive image on the network. It's also payware, so I guess you don't want to go with that.
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