Clone an OS assistance

dj_jyno said:
SInce you're going 120 GB -> 240 GB, dd and then expand the disk with gparted or Disk Management?
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yeah basically.


Peon said:
Cloning easy as as pie.

Have any of you who have cloned significant amount of drives also experience the Windows 10 base version upgrade failure on a cloned drive?

The hardware UUID's are different and it doesnt update the bootcode BCD. Ive gone through the usual re-creation but it still doesnt update correctly. These clones were offline clones. I'm thinking online clones would update the UUID correctly? Online cloning I mean is like installing Macrium on the host and having the SSD plugged in via USB. Opening Macrium on host Windows 10 and choosing clone then it reboots to a PE state and clones etc,etc.
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Using windows 10 pro, will have to see if I run into any problems.
 
PsyWulf said:
Macrium has a bootable Rescue disk option that can repair the Boot issues related to BCD
There was a particular trick to clone it the better way without breaking the BCD but I forget what it was
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I will take a look at the Macrium one. Its probably the same as Lazesoft Recovery Media. Re-creating the BCD manually with eg; "bcdboot C:\Windows /s D: /f ALL" also doesnt update the UUID correctly.
 
Have you bought the new SSD, yet? Most of them will come with software, and instructions that will do the job. Some will give you keys to Acronis etc.
 
Peon said:
I will take a look at the Macrium one. Its probably the same as Lazesoft Recovery Media. Re-creating the BCD manually with eg; "bcdboot C:\Windows /s D: /f ALL" also doesnt update the UUID correctly.
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I've rebuilt an accidentally nuked Boot sector+BCD on a particularly rough clone
 
PsyWulf said:
I've rebuilt an accidentally nuked Boot sector+BCD on a particularly rough clone
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Please let me know what you did to update the UUID of the new physical drive. What im thinking is in future uninstalling the RST And AHCI drivers and then reinstalling them, then proceeding to the base version upgrade.
 
On the recommendation of a friend I used EaseUS Todo Backup to move two partitions (C: & D:) of a Windows 7 Ultimate install, from a 150 Gb WD Cheetah drive to a 512 Gb Samsung Evo SSD., this after the Samsung cloning software had failed.

Worked like a charm :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
 
rrh said:
On the recommendation of a friend I used EaseUS Todo Backup to move two partitions (C: & D:) of a Windows 7 Ultimate install, from a 150 Gb WD Cheetah drive to a 512 Gb Samsung Evo SSD., this after the Samsung cloning software had failed.

Worked like a charm :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
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Only thing I like about that software is the ability to backup and restore outlook :thumbsup:
 
Dimpie (COMPUTEK) said:
I've not seen that in a very loooooooong time :unsure:
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I bought a WD for my daughter a few months ago, came with a Acronis key and instructions. Also bought myself a Crucial SSD a while ago, can't remember if that came with anything, but I used clonezilla to clone my Manjaro drive. Might be that some brands or models don't come with it.
 
What OS?

****

Windows 10 I see. Does it still not have a built-in migration tool? That’s actually quite shocking.

Yet another reason to stick with MacOS.
 
rambo919 said:
General word of caution.... clones to PCI-e SSD's often don't work because of motherboard constraints.

It copies files but not all sectors.
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Would it work if the donor PCIe SSD was in an USB C external housing?
 
airborne said:
Would it work if the donor PCIe SSD was in an USB C external housing?
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Dunno.... probably.

Think in some mobo's it has to do with how they implemented UEFI..... funny thing is the bug hits you even if you are booting legacy.
 
SauRoNZA said:
What OS?

****

Windows 10 I see. Does it still not have a built-in migration tool? That’s actually quite shocking.

Yet another reason to stick with MacOS.
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It does, but limited in some ways, doesn't fair well with 3rd party apps, especially with online activation licenses for some software, that can throw a fit if you have hardware changes or clean installs ect. A clean install is nice but spending a day or two, arranging and fixing shyte not so much. Not that cloning won't have it's fair share of trouble.

Not even going to remotely entertain macOs discussion.......:p You know very, very ,very well how much I hate macOs.......begone apple troll :P I jest of course. :D
 
wizardofid said:
It does, but limited in some ways, doesn't fair well with 3rd party apps, especially with online activation licenses for some software, that can throw a fit if you have hardware changes or clean installs ect. A clean install is nice but spending a day or two, arranging and fixing shyte not so much. Not that cloning won't have it's fair share of trouble.

Not even going to remotely entertain macOs discussion.......:p You know very, very ,very well how much I hate macOs.......begone apple troll :P I jest of course. :D
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I know you hate it but it’s fun when one can unilaterally say Apple is taking the lead on a given process and has done so for many years and it’s actually shocking that the others still haven’t gotten it right.

If I get a new iMac/MacBook/Mac Pro tomorrow I can literally migrate to it within a couple of minutes to hours depending how much storage I’m using and carry on exactly as I did before without breaking or needing to do anything.

Think I migrated across at least ten different hardwares and multiple OS versions in over a decade without ever starting fresh or needing to format or any such Windows nonsense, simply using the migration tool and moving on with life.

Of course the same applies for their mobile OS platforms, at least there some of the competition get it somewhat right.
 
SauRoNZA said:
I know you hate it but it’s fun when one can unilaterally say Apple is taking the lead on a given process and has done so for many years and it’s actually shocking that the others still haven’t gotten it right.

If I get a new iMac/MacBook/Mac Pro tomorrow I can literally migrate to it within a couple of minutes to hours depending how much storage I’m using and carry on exactly as I did before without breaking or needing to do anything.

Think I migrated across at least ten different hardwares and multiple OS versions in over a decade without ever starting fresh or needing to format or any such Windows nonsense, simply using the migration tool and moving on with life.

Of course the same applies for their mobile OS platforms, at least there some of the competition get it somewhat right.
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Lol with a child proof OS, a lot easier to do, then with windows, however this has been slowly but surely changing, with windows lately, they have really started stepping up their game in protecting vital aspects of system files and such.It has be come much harder to "break" some system files, not that it doesn't happen. But since I have been using windows 10, I have only gotten ONE BSOD, and that was related to AMD driver issue. I think it has been 3 1/2 years now. One hardware issue related to a cisco wifi dongle mickeysoft, didn't like......and that is about it.

HOWEVER TROLL, I fell for your tricks.......shame on me :P
 
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