I have recently cloned my old HDD of my laptop to a new Kingston HyperX Savage. But it only shows half the speeds it should get. I followed the tips from this thread: How can I determine the SATA controller version on Windows? and found out that the SSD is currently running in SATA 2 … Read more
Recently I had a problem with some HDD installed on a old Linux machine (2009 or so). The disks were installed on this machine with a RAID system (I was told that it was a RAID 1, the RAID controller is ARECA). Disks are two SEAGATE BARRACUTA ES.2. I was trying to copy some files … Read more
I have a unique problem for which I am seeking a solution. I have a laptop which originally had a 256GB M.2 NVMe SSD. I upgraded the drive to a 1TB model, and used MiniTool partition wizard to clone the older drive into the new one. The cloned drive worked fine and was functional. What … Read more
My machine was running Win 10 just fine but its OS drive was getting full so I cloned it to another M.2. SSD using the latest version of Macrium Reflect. (Because the new drive is larger, I did move around the partitions of the new drive so that the main partition is next to the … Read more
When you clone a disk, is there a way to distinguish the clone from the original, such as a timestamp or any other information that could be read from both disks and compared ? Answer No. The difference (if exists) is outside of data. Assuming that “clone” is sector-by-sector copying, of course. If source and … Read more
We have two hard disks. One is 80GB, most likely damaged/corrupt/failing. The second is 320GB. In the 80GB disk, we have Windows 7 enterprise installed. Since we would like to keep our application configurations, we first attempted to repair the 80GB (Startup repair, system restore, chkdsk, last good known configuration) with no success. Windows 7 … Read more
I have 12 brand new computers that I am configuring for a client. Instead of setting them all up one at a time I want to configure one PC, create an image and mount that image across the rest of my PCs. I have done this successfully for all the PCs but now I am … Read more
I am trying to learn about cloning a small SSD to a larger SSD using Macrium. My OS (Windows 10) is installed on a 120 GB SSD but I need to clone the OS to a 500 GB SSD and then insert the new SSD into the laptop. I’m doing this because there are some … Read more
I have 2 stations: (A) Old: Standard PC station with RAID0 setup for 2x500GB HDD, running Windows 10 (MBR structure). (B) New: Intel NUC with 2TB M2 SSD NVMe PCIe, new empty disk, no OS installed. I want to clone the old system to the new one. There’s no way I can get the 2TB … Read more
Recently I had a problem with some HDD installed on a old Linux machine (2009 or so). The disks were installed on this machine with a RAID system (I was told that it was a RAID 1, the RAID controller is ARECA). Disks are two SEAGATE BARRACUTA ES.2. I was trying to copy some files … Read more
