stevebt

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What's the best way to clone my C drive on to another hdd. The hard drive is just far too slow for me and since 1tb ssd have dropped in price loads I think it's time to fit one to my laptop.

I have no interest in setting my pc up as new pc with the new drive so I really just want to clone it.

andy97

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I have one of those stand alone clone machines. Plug both drive in and press two buttons, away it copies. Ensure your old drive has no bad sectors or it might not clone dependant on device /software running. Do a chkdsk and repair bad sectors before cloning.

stevebt

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That's sounds like a cracking thing to have, what's the shelf life on one of those and how much are they?

bioforger

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If you buy a sammy ssd it comes with the cloning software, which you can do over USB or sata.

You can get it here, http://www.samsung.com/global/busine...downloads.html

andy97

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http://www.startech.com/uk/m/HDD/Dup...SB~SATDOCK22RE

I think this is the model I have

brendy76

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I bought a copy of acronis true image for 30 odd quid. I use it weekly in work and the universal restore function is great, it allows you to run on dissimilar hardware without the usual blue screens.

Francis K

I fitted a Kingston Savage SSD to my laptop and it has speeded it up a lot. It came with a code for a download of Acronis True Image. I bought an external SATA to USB enclosure but you can pay more for one in the Installation Kit option from Kingston.

I installed a clean version of Windows and reinstalled everything else but you can easily just clone the original.

jura11

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Hi Steve

I would try Clonezilla its free and works as LiveCD and really nothing beat that,great program and really great for cloning HDD

Or I would try this one,I've used this one in past for cloning two SSD

http://www.aomeitech.com/

Or this one is good one

http://www.todo-backup.com/products/...p-software.htm

Hope this helps

Thanks,Jura

An0n0m0us

Another vote for Clonezilla, I use this for backing up clean builds so I can easily restore to a fresh build if and when needed such as on test machines.

What deals are there on laptop 1tb ssd drives now?

Tidgy

personaly i'd just do a fresh install, takes about 30 mins on a decent speed ssd to do one and will be nice and clean.

They advise reinstalling windows once a year anyway becuase of file corruption and such.

bioforger

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Who does? MS? lol

No need to reinstall at all, just a regular ccleaner and malware check is all you need, OS is as fresh as it was when it was installed.

Tidgy

Go search on google, depends who you ask in the industry and how well you can clean your system.

Over time your system will slow down, you can run defrag, cleaners etc etc but they take time and have to be done often to be effective.

I am yet to find a cleaner or malware tool that doesn't in someway affect windows, i like and use malware bytes, but even that has downsides to what it identifies as bad.

A common recommendation is to regularly reinstall if you arn't an expert at cleaning (registry is a pita in particular) or when you install new hardware, especially a HD. which is exactly what's happening in this case.

New hard drive is a good opportunity to start from a fresh rather than copy across any already present errors

bioforger

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CCLeaner is a perfect tool for cleaning the registry and startup/config/services, most people don't need to defrag as they have SSD's now.

Tidgy

assuming it doesnt remove stuff you dont want it to. net full of questions regarding stuff removed. Funny how they make money by selling tech support

It's all a tad irrelevant in this case anyway, New hard drive is a definite situation for a clean install.

bioforger

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lol, it only removes issues and redundant entries, i've been using it for years, its never caused a single problem.

The Tech support is probably for the morons who get stuck on how to use the config/startup pieces

Yep absolutely for a new drive a clean install is always better, but you certainly don't need to refresh it every year lol.