Clonng a C drive
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. |
Originally Posted by stevebt
(Post 11783790)
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. |
That's sounds like a cracking thing to have, what's the shelf life on one of those and how much are they?
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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 |
Originally Posted by stevebt
(Post 11783805)
That's sounds like a cracking thing to have, what's the shelf life on one of those and how much are they?
I think this is the model I have |
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.
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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. |
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 |
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? |
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. |
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. |
Originally Posted by bioforger
(Post 11788094)
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. 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 |
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.
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Originally Posted by bioforger
(Post 11788124)
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.
It's all a tad irrelevant in this case anyway, New hard drive is a definite situation for a clean install. |
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. |
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