I installed a 2nd hard drive (presently drive B: ) it is initialized, volume prepared and ready to go. The plan is to clone Drive C: to it. Then making it the primarily C: drive. The old C: Drive will then be changed to Drive B.
View 4 RepliesShould i put the swap on the HDD ? I have 1 SSD OCZ Vertex 2 and 2 x HDD WD 6400 AAKS.
PS I have 3 GBDDR3
I am running W7/64 in a Dell Inspiron. I discovered that Windows Backup did not give me back my folders when I needed them and I don't want to use it again. In all previous OSs I have used Apricorn/Acronis which backed up from BIOS and produced an external HD copy which would boot automatically and restore the complete disk, or one could select folders and files to move back. Simple and elegant.
i searched for "clone" information in "Windows 7" and got information mostly for other XP, Vista, etc. But I did see that the free XXCLONE was mentioned and I would like to hear from anyone who has used XXClone in Windows 7 to report on its value, problems, etc.
I guess I need a way to copy my current C drive to a new drive so that the new drive can replace the C drive. Or perhaps there's some alternate way to replace the C drive with a newer and larger drive.I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium.
View 3 Replies View RelatedSo, I have been searching mindlessly around to figure out how to swap my displays (IE. display 2 as display 1 and vise-versa) and I finally figured out in Catalyst control center, you can swap these displays, I currently have it configured in the control center like this: url...Is there any way to fix this? I restarted, and in Windows, it's still configured like that, but in the center, it's the way I want it. And I know it's not configured right because when I record my desktop with FRAPS, it records like it's configured the Windows way.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have 2 HDDs that I want to switch the OS of each one to the other. One is a laptop 140GB HD that has Windows 7 64-bit and the other is a Desktop 150GB HD with Windows XP 32-bit. The laptops HD was pre-installed with the OS and the Desktop is unknown. Just as an fyi the laptops cd drive is broken and the desktops doesn't burn. What are my options on how to switch the two?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI was wondering if I could change my system from a 64bit to a 32bit...I have a OEM copy of windows wich I bought online and it is 64bit I want to change it to 32bit.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI migrated from a 250 GB HDD to a 500 GB. I had around 230 GB of information wich I really didn't want to loose, so I cloned the old HDD to the new one with the software Acronis True Image Home.
Apparently, the cloning succeds, but when I disconnect the old Disk and try to boot from the new one, when I log on I get stuck in "preparing your session".
I'm transfering all my data to a new hdd using gparted. My ubuntu partition went fine but my windows 7 is corrupted or broken. I tried twice to clone the partition but the new one is behaving oddly. url...first when windows starts theres nothing on the screen, i have to ctrl+alt+del and create a explorer.exe process, then I can't navigate because any attempt to enter "computer" or any explorer windows returns a warning with "no such interface supported". All my data is still there but is currently unusable.I really want to clone it because reinstalling everything is going to be too much time consuming.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a 22 inch monitor on my desktop. I also have a 46 inch Samsung LCD HD TV. I want to clone my display so what is seen on the monitor, can also been seen on the TV across the room.
Extended desktop works but I need to be able to CLONE it. I can't for the life of me figure out how to do this on Windows 7. Any help would be great.
Video card in question is an ATI 3870 X2 with 3 DVI outputs and one HDMI output.
I bought a intel 320 160g gen3. Looking to clone my raid o to it. I may be over simplifying it but can't I just install the SSd in the 3rd Sata spot clone to it from the raid then just change the bios to boot off of the SSd and change it to ahci? Then keep the raid o as is for storage of games and such. I am not putting any important data on the raid o purely a gaming computer. Fresh instal isn't an option btw.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI originally did a fresh install of Windows 7 onto an SSD, which has now become too small. Using the Windows 7 utility today I created a system image onto an external standard hard drive. I'd like to restore the image onto my new, larger SSD. Is preparation such as alignment needed, or does going from one SSD to another take care of that? I'm assuming I can resize the active partition using Disk Management afterwards.
View 5 Replies View RelatedSImple question does anybody no of the best free HDD cloning software for Windows 7 ?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI've cloned my 320GB HDD to a 128GB SSD. Before you think I lost my mind let me state, I've used "less" than 25% of that 320GB HDD.
Now, my problem is this. When I boot up the cloned SSD in my new] laptop it will not bootup and says, it does not detect a bootble disk. I've tried the repair/restore three times with no success. Does anyone know for certain what I might do to repair this issue and get it to bootup correctly?
I have two laptops that are identical...HP Compaq nw9440. I have a 100gig drive in LAPTOP#1, and a 750gig drive in LAPTOP#2. Both drives are running an identical Windows 7 Enterprise typical install. Can I put the 750gig drive in to LAPTOP#1? Can I create and save an NTBTLOG.txt file from each laptop (I.E. ntbtlog-LP1.txt) and select either one during the boot-up? The reason is LAPTOP#2 is not running very well. It has been dropped and I fear the motherboard may have a crack in it causing random boot problems. Sometimes the laptop doesn't even recognize the hard drive.
View 2 Replies View Relatedhow to configure Windows 7 use a Swap Partition instead of a Swap File. I heard it is possible to do so using special drivers. Another question is how much of a performance difference it actually would make over using a Swap File.
View 2 Replies View Relatedi have an odd 5900 RPM HDD that i need to swap out. i'm going to swap it out mainly because it's better suited for storage/backup rather than being my main HDD for usage/boot-up.
i don't want to reinstall Windows 7 (7100) and i want to copy everything from HDD "a" to HDD "b". any ideas/suggestions/comments?
I have a question which i am unable to solve yet hope any one help me out here
what i want is Display 1, tv connected by HDMI and my Display 2 monitor to DVi, now main or primary display is my LCD monitor which is connected with DVI, what i want is to swap the numbers of display i want that my DVI should be identify as 1 not as 2 so how can i do it?
Is it possible to swap drive letters around? I want to swap the C: drive to be the F: drive, is this possible?
View 4 Replies View RelatedPlease can someone tell me the most reliable way to upgrade my hard drive.I have Norton Ghost 15Would like to transfer my system onto a new hard drive and then just boot from that new drive, removing and destroying the old one.
View 8 Replies View RelatedCan someone tell me the most reliable way to upgrade my hard drive.I have Norton Ghost 15,Would like to transfer my system onto a new hard drive and then just boot from that new drive, removing and destroying the old one.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have used a linux live cd to create an exact image copy of a 320gb hdd on an external HDD by doing:
root@ubuntu:/media/backup# dd if=/dev/sda of=2011-09-19.img bs=32256
9922896+0 records in
9922896+0 records out
320072933376 bytes (320 GB) copied, 8851.48 s, 36.2 MB/s
Windows 7 ultimate is installed on that HDD. I just want this image so if the hdd fails i can buy a new hdd and restore the image to the new hdd.However is there some disk signature problem if i do this? Because the new hdd would have a different disk signature from the one of the old hdd. I have read that this can cause an error message during boot along the lines of 'The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.'. Do i have to manually edit the MBR using a hex editor to match the new hdd? How do i even find the correct signature of the new hdd?
I am trying to use Seagate discwizard, to clone my hard drive to another. When I went through the process, the new HDD received only the C partition and not the D.
I really don't want to format the hdd and reinstall!
Can anyone tell me is there any Hard Disk Cloning program similar to the Seagate Disk Wizard or Norton's Ghost that is compatible with Windows 7I tried using the Seagate Disk Wizard which I'd been using succesfully under WIN XP PRO and it creamed my backup HD and I had to reformat itPerhaps there is a Windows 7 version of SDW available or coming soon
View 9 Replies View Relatedwhat is the difference between cloning and system imaging?
View 9 Replies View Related1. I have a FUJITSU MHZ2160BH G2 2.5 ATA Hard Drive which is an moving parts hard drive. Id like to replace this with a Solid State much large hard drive. Are all 2.5 Hard Drives the same in terms of the generic size? I.e. do I simply just screw the back of the laptop, take out the old and put in the new?
2. I have a three partitions that I would like to clone. I have a dual boot, Windows 7 and Ubuntu laptop with shared hosting. Is Clonezilla the best for this do you think? Its a little complicated in that Id like to copy the existing hard drive and then in the new hard drive increase the partitions by 15 gig each - and then copy the 3 partitions in.
I have a system that I'd like to clone to an SSD. The source disk is an HDD that is currently using two partitions. I'd like to just move the C partition to an SSD, but my only question is, what cloning apps would allow the SSD to be recognized properly, or would Windows 7 pick up the fact it is an SSD drive and adjust the OS accordingly, including enabling TRIM.
If it matters, the SATA controller is already set to AHCI, and the target drive is a Crucial C300.
Forgot to mention, I had been using Partition Wizard 7.0 (bootable iso) in the past, but never with an SSD.
I have on my laptop (a thinkpad, from Lenovo) Windows 7 Professional, obtained via something called "MSDN Alliance" and my university. A few weeks ago, I finally had the opportunity to upgrade my hard drive. Thus, I placed the new disk in a USB case, plugged it in via USB, and performed a disk clone via a software from a company called EASUS. I then removed the old disk, placed the new one in its location (that is, inside the laptop), and removed the USB equipment. Good as new, I though. And everything appears to be working fine -- except the "nag screen" that seemingly randomly pops up out of nowhere and tells me that I am using a (I don't recall the text exactly at this moment) less that legal/legitimate installation of Windows. I can check if Windows has been activated -- and it has (of course, I did this after having installed it) (i.e., on the "old" disk), I have tried searching for solutions, however I only find issues when similar clonings have changed the drive letters.
View 9 Replies View Relatedwe are attempting to upgrade the harddrive in an asus eeepc 1005ha from 250 Gb to 750Gb. we purchased "Disk Director" by acronis and are using the cloning feature.
everything seemed to go well until we installed the new drive and it would not boot. the original drive was reinstalled and a second attempt was made to clone it.
the cloning process includes a reboot of the computer to start cloning. it would not boot. a screen comes up the says "windows failed to start. a recent hardware or software change might be the cause..." it then says that we need to use the installation disc and the repair computer feature.
the repair window on the disc will not come up, what starts is the recovery utility which reinstalls the OS and erases everything else.
I have been running happily with an All in One Medion desk top, which I have modified slightly. It is really a notebook chip based system, only two sata outputs, but it does have a touchscreen and digital tuner. It is a 2.3Ghz Pentium dual core. 4 GB mem and 1.5 TB over two drives.
I pulled the DVD drive out of sata 2 port and fitted it in an external housing on a USB port. Then I wired the sata 2 port out via an eSata socket to a sata HDD docking station.
I have been running six months with two versions of Win 7 Home premium 64bit in dual boot mode with no probs. Last week I decided to replace the 64 bit with a 32 bit version so as to run some older programs.
So I formatted the external 1TB drive and loaded win 7 32x from the original disks. Took while with all the updates and SP1.
While doing this, I had no problem with the DVD drive but, as soon as I was up and running, the DVD drive stopped reading disks. Swap boot back into Windows 7 64 bit and it is fine, boot from Windows 7 32 bit and it is a dodo. It recognises the drive ID but will not open a file or boot from a bootable disk. I have checked for out of date or missing drivers but nothing shows.
I suspect I have a protocol problem, Not sure. It appears to be using a new Windows 7 sp1 driver. Or maybe something wrong in Global settings.
I have two laptops (both Toshiba's, 4yrs and 2yrs old). Running Windows 7 Pro x64 on older one and Vista Home Prem x64 on newer one.
I want to get rid of older one (for obvious reasons), but don't want to purchase a new license for Windows 7. How can I swap the HDD's before ditching the antiquated unit?