Will this device clone the internal hard drive of my computer (transfer data from my desktop to a new hard drive)
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It would not by itself :). There are a few cloning softwares that would do that. Some ssd's would come with cloning software installed but I don't know if this one does. Also keep in mind the size of the data on the original HD not to exceed your drive capacity
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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. But it's a little tougher than you think. You need software to properly clone your boot drive. If you have multiple HDDs in your system, you need to unplug them for your initial boot so Windows will see the Solo as having your primary drive and will map it as such. It works very well. I used in my last computer and I was very happy with the performance. Just make sure you have a large enough SSD.
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It does say in the description that it can clone your hard drive to another without a computer but as someone who hasn't used and doesn't own the product I cannot say for certain
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No it can't clone the drive in that manner. Using that setup you can only copy from on drive to the next. Not clone
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I did not try to clone a active hardrive like your question but you can try. However, you can use a clone from Samsung SSD drive software to clone your active harddrive, I what I did with my laptop
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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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No that I know, this software is speciphycally to copy the entire hard drive and installed it onto a new one, making sure the new hard drive is the same size or larger.
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After cloning (duplicating) an existing hard drive onto a new one with the hard drive duplicator, the new drive when installed in the original PC will boot up the operating system, identically to the original hard drive. After duplicating, the new hard drive is an exact duplicate of the original, and will work the same in every way. The software, and all data is all the same and will work the same in the PC as the original hard drive does.
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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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No it won't and cloning the drive is not a good idea. You'll want to install windows directly onto the ssd and use the hdd as a backup
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This device should work to connect your hard drive to another computer o retrieve our data
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Mine didn't have either. Free software is available to clone drives but you'll need an additional SATA cable and available SATA power connection to connect the drive.
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I do believe you can. I'm a Mac user so I use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my drives and it worked with that. I do use PCs as well, and there are several cloning programs that can do the same thing, I just can't remember them as I'm here at work. I did use one of them to clone my desktop drive to an SSD drive and it worked perfectly.
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Not unless you have the right software to only read the hard drive. This device only turns the Hard Drive into an External Device. It has no options whatsoever.
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Absolutely. This device will connect to only one hard drive at a time. So you will have to move files from one drive at a time.
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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 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