• HDD shuffle?
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HI I come to you with a little bit of an odd problem. I recently got back a rig of mine from my dads house, which was not operational. It had 2 HDDsconnected with RAID and one failed. I had a makeshift desktop that I rigged up, but it was basically an acer laptop that I hooked up to a display and installed windows 8 and ubuntu on; but more importantly it was only a temporary setup and i planned to just migrate that copy of windows 8 to my new computer. So I tried simply pulling the drive out of my laptop and installing it into the desktop, and to my surprise it worked just fine once windows realized what had just happened and made some updates. after a couple restarts I went ahead and grabbed the correct graphics driver, and called ol' microsoft to do the dance of keys. Now, I have taken the original drives out of the desktop, and the 2.5" HDD is still installed because I'm stuck at actually transferring my current OS over to its target drive, a 1TB HDD Also installed in the desktop. I have tried using "Shadowcopy" to clone my HDD to the new one, but it wouldn't boot. I also tried using the windows 7 file recovery options to create a system image but I couldn't get that to work cause i cant create a repair disk right now. is there another way to clone my HDD? I have access to other Linux computers as well, if there are ways to do it from another computer.
When my old HDD was on the verge of dying I just loaded CloneZilla (I think that's it anyway) onto a USB stick and cloned the entire drive to the target. It is a perfect clone, so I don't know how it will deal with disk sizes, but you can fix the partition being too small yourself easily enough.
As I understand correctly, you are trying to clone a OS HDD? At work we use Norton Ghost for the 6 public PC's we have. Works like a charm.
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