Hard drive cloning
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What software would you recommend for cloning one hard drive directly to another? I'm replacing the 1 TB drives in my system with 2 TB drives. One contains my media and documents while the other contains my games. I had the free edition of Macrium Reflect already on my computer from before, but it seems like I can only clone to an image, then restore the image, as opposed to cloning directly from disk-to-disk. I'm open to suggestions!
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Re: Hard drive cloning
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shareholder in the making
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I've used Acronis True Image once. It functioned.
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Re: Hard drive cloning
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connoisseur
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connoisseur
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you can get Acronis true image free on the Western Digital site; check first if it can do what you want, as i think it's not the full version.
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Re: Hard drive cloning
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axiomite
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I've never heard of hard drive cloning, outside of a Raid 1, which I currently use with two 1 TB drives. It was available on the motherboard I installed and has worked flawlessly for the past 3 years.
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Re: Hard drive cloning
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I've been used Acronis for a year and it has worked for me every time use it.
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Re: Hard drive cloning
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Oh, I meant to respond to this. J.B., thanks for the heads-up on the WD Edition of Acronis True Image. It's doing what I want. I've cloned one drive, and I'll start the other when I'm done with my system tonight.
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Re: Hard drive cloning
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New hard drives are in and seem to be doing fine. Old hard drives are out. I had a new hard drive dock to help with the process, too: Thermaltake BlacX Duet 5G ST0022U ABS Pl... Station, BlackI had a single-drive eSATA version but felt like upgrading to a dual-drive. This one uses USB 3.0. I didn't actually time it, but I think it took like 4-5 hours per drive. One drive had ~600 gigs on it, and the other had ~800 gigs.
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