Data Cloning? I have an HP DV4 and I want to replace my slower 320gb with this drive. I have windows 7, what kind of software can I use to clone my hard drive?
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Thanks, I got this hard drive about a month ago and it has been working perfectly. I used the free trial of Acronis True Image 2010 to clone the drive. Now I have this drive and my old 320GB 54K for a backup drive!
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Use windows 7 ...go control panel click on backup and restore. Upper left select create A systen image.
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The drive should be compatible with your laptop. Hopefully, your existing drive isn't totally gone and you have the means to transfer your existing info to the new drive.
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Actually I have Windows 8.21 on my computer, functioning as Windows 7. I have two drives, that way I protect my software and can use a clone to copy it to the other drive and keep them up to date that way. Mine is a 1 TB solid state, quiet and very fast. Cost nearly $500.
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Are you talking about cloning the contents of this drive to your computer? If so, yes. It is indeed possible, manually or with the help of freeware. I recommend the latter though. I did the opposite though as I have a 3TB drive. Good luck.
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It does a perfect clone of your existing drive. All operating system, applications, settings, keys, passwords and data come over automatically. Keep you r old hard drive as a backup
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Yes you should be able to do this using something like Clonezilla or Accronis I believe. However, if you are cloning your main drive to the external, you will not be able to use it during that time of course.
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I don't know about the particular software that you mention, but I used Acronis to clone the 500 Gb hard drive that came with the notebook computer to clone it (the O.S. and drivers, more specifically) to the my new SanDisk SSD. Once I swapped out the drives in the drive bay, it worked identically. Except for, of course, the fact that the boot time was much faster, as well as my engineering programs that practically doubled in speed. I did use a desktop computer with 3 SATA drives, the first with the O.S. to boot to that had Acronis loaded, and the next two, the 500 Gb HDD and the 256 Gb SSD, to do the cloning.
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It depends on the source drive. Some Dynamically Partitioned drives, such as the ones in a lot of new HPs won't clone properly.
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Google a live CD called Parted Magic it may help to clone the drive additionally you may have to have a usb transfer cable to get the drive cloned.
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Hello Richard. It will clone the entire HDD so you dont have to purchase another license for windows. Microsoft activation server auto detects the details and if it prompts for you to enter the key once again (i hope you have the backup of windows license key), just do it. There will not be any problem.Robin.
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It is possible... IF you can shrink your current system partition to under 250 GB. You can then use any partition backup software (Macrium, Acronis, etc) to clone your old drive. Assuming you are using Windows, Open Computer Management, under Storage select Disk Management. Wait for drives to load. Find your system drive (typically Disk0) and right click on the windows partition and select Shrink Volume. Your C: volume as well as the hidden system partition cannot total more than the available space on the destination HDD. Then use your disk cloning software. example link provided.http://kb.macrium.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50081.aspx It is possible... IF you can shrink your current system partition to under 250 GB. You can then use any partition backup software (Macrium, Acronis, etc) to clone your old drive. Assuming you are using Windows, Open Computer Management, under Storage select Disk Management. Wait for drives to load. Find your system drive (typically Disk0) and right click on the windows partition and select Shrink Volume. Your C: volume as well as the hidden system partition cannot total more than the available space on the destination HDD. Then use your disk cloning software. example link... » Read More It is possible... IF you can shrink your current system partition to under 250 GB. You can then use any partition backup software (Macrium, Acronis, etc) to clone your old drive. Assuming you are using Windows, Open Computer Management, under Storage select Disk Management. Wait for drives to load. Find your system drive (typically Disk0) and right click on the windows partition and select Shrink Volume. Your C: volume as well as the hidden system partition cannot total more than the available space on the destination HDD. Then use your disk cloning software. example link provided.http://kb.macrium.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50081.aspx « Show Less
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I transferred about 80 gigs from my old hard drive to my new laptop without any issues. I can't see you having a problem other than waiting longer for a terabyte to transfer.
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Short answer: Yes. I did it and it works great. Long Answer: It's not simple, especially if you are upgrading to a smaller disk. 1) Create a recovery disk/thumb drive with the Windows Utility. Besides being a good idea, they offer you the option to delete the Recovery partition from the back end of the drive. Doing so will allow you to more easily manipulate the existing partitions for transfer. 2) Delete the blank d: Data partition. I am not sure why they break it up like this. Possibly shrink the System partition (I first went to a 128GB drive, then to a 256). 3) Unscrew the bottom, remove the drive (REAL SHUT DOWN FIRST!!!) 4) I tried to use Clonezilla to duplicate the drive, but this didn't work so well. So I ended up using a simple dd command in linux. If all this is beyond you, just find a local geek to help. 5) Plugged in the new drive, screwed it all back up, and it worked! ONE ISSUE!!! Upon reboot, Windows thinks it's a special version called Windows To Go, and won't let you install from the MS Store. Here is the solution: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/W8ITProWTG/thread/af05f60a-4cb0-4561-b49f-71938dad6853
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Hi Dear Hoang,Yes this device can help you to clone a 80GB Drive to a 500GB Drive.However,This device support SATA Hard Drives ONLY,You will need to ensure yout 80GB Drive is a SATA Drive first.Or it won't work.If you have any further question,You can contact ORICO Customer Care Team for more support such as figure out if your drive a SATA Drive.
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since 100GB is less than 250GB I would say your data will probably fit. However you will likely need to re install your operating system to the new drive though, typically copy-pasting operating systems doesn't work out too well.
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I'm sorry. I don't know. I had a drive cloned *for* me. I suggest you contact Seagate. They're awesome.
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no it has to be the same size or larger. in order to clone it you would have to use something like imagex to create an image to apply it to the smaller drive.