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Problem description: I am looking to be able to clone one hard drive to another. I have a few desktop hard drives that I want to clone to SSDs, the issue I am having is that the original hard drives were either larger or smaller then the drives that they are being copied to and most freeware I have seen does not allow me to do so. In the case where the original drive is larger the the one that it is being copied to (lets say 1tb to 480gb ssd) there's less then 250gb of data on the drive. In that case where it is larger 500GB-> 960gb ssd, I would like to be able to clone a drive and have the partition not end at 500gb. So I would have a clone with 960gb total in one partition, not one 500gb partition and a 460gb partition. Is there any freeware that would let me easily do this from within windows? If there is no freeware, purchased software that is good? Attempted fixes: What have you tried to do to resolve the problem? I have tried several pieces of software Marcium reflect, Paragon, and a few others Recent changes: N/A -- Operating system: Varies Usually windows, but not always. System specs:N/A Location: What country are you in? Murica I have Googled and read the FAQ: Yes
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MasterOSkillio posted:Problem description: Mancrium and Acronis can do this, I've never used other products. Macrium info: http://knowledgebase.macrium.com/display/KNOW/Cloning+a+disk when going from smaller to larger, you should be able to expand the disk once you've cloned it, hell the software might even do it natively, but you can use disk management to expand the disk yourself. In fact, the KB article linked in that forum post also explains how to expand the disk via macrium. Acronis can also do this but I'm too lazy to look up the information. MF_James fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Mar 29, 2017 |
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Mar 29, 2017 20:57
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I've used Clonezilla and EaseUS Backup in the past. I honestly can't remember the last one I used - I don't have the need to do this very often. As MF_James mentioned, cloning from a smaller source disk to a larger destination disk isn't usually a problem - you can grow partitions using Windows built-in disk management, and open source software like Gparted can handle it if needed.
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