once you clone a drive, can you just plug the drive into ANY OTHER computer (USB port) and use the programs on the cloned drive?
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No. Programs need to be installed in the appropriate folders by an installation program on the computer you intend to use them on. The files will all be on the cloned drive, but Windows (if that's the operating system you have), can't find them unless it put them in the proper locations.
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I don't believe so. The operating system will be looking for identical hardware as the original computer. It would likely not boor properly.
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NO. the boot exe. file for all programs you have on the drive will not copy to the new drive. If you look at the files on the clone drive you will see every thing for each program but he one thing you need. Its call boot.exe. (windows).
634578
If you clone the drive then you are moving everything from the host drive. If you have the OS DVD then you could do a clean install and have just the OS on the ssd
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You need to load the registry hive of the cloned drive and edit that is what I meant. You have to swap the drive letters for the original drive and the cloned drive.
216695
Yes I did. if it don't work, download easeus data partition and partition data before you clone. I went from 1tb HDD to 512 ssd with no problems
2124287
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, with this product you will need to remove the hard drive from the computer and insert it into this dock in order to clone.
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The contents of the original HDD stay. After you clone the HDD you will have two identical drives.
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No you can't. The master drive has to be pysically removed from the system and put into Master slot A and the alternate/Slave or clone drive will be placed in slot B.
999370
You will not be able to use the direct copy feature to do this as it requires the drives to be the same size. You can connect the device to a computer and copy the data to that first and then to the new drive.
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If you just need to clone a drive you may find other utilities better suited. This specializes in moving to an equal or larger Solid State Drive (SSD) drive. Not all disk cloning software works with solid state drives as I tried a couple of others before this and they copied the data, but the PC would not boot to the clone. I normally use other utilities to clone SATA drives.
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Yes as said before, but you will need software to use the extra 250GB. The straight clone is just a copy of the original 250GB and the new drive thinks it's only a 250GB drive. The software will let you allocate the remaining for an alternate drive or a continuation of the same drive. I used EaseUS Partition Master and it worked fine.
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I didn't see any options for that. You boot from the cd/dvd and clone the drive. I suppose that you could deinstall the programs you don't want afterwards. HTH
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I actually returned the unit as I wanted to clone more than one PC hard drive to it, but learned that it was not possible to do this. I have two big LaCie drives where I do exactly what you'd like to do. It works well. I can only assume (note assume) that that backup process can work with his drive. Richard Chay
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You can access a hard drive with it to copy files on, but if some files are encrypted or have permission problems they might not tranfer correctly. So, I can't say 100% clone
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Yes and you will have to set the pins with a jumper for recognition of a second drive and plug it into the IDE cable as the second, you might have to unplug something. then copy the drive *.* and you've duplicated it.
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Yes, everything would be copied ... as long as the drive you are copying to is the same size or larger than your original
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For direct cloning, I didn't have much success when the destination drive was smaller than the source drive. If the destination is equal or larger, works fantastic! One workaround was to make an image of the source using a 3rd party software, then write the image back on the destination.