Speed is an important consideration. I used the free version of HDClone several times, but it took half a day to clone a drive. $25 was well worth the price for an interface I was already used to and the ability to clone the same drive in less than two hours.
How to Clone a Hard Drive Discussion
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Speed is an important consideration. I used the free version of HDClone several times, but it took half a day to clone a drive. $25 was well worth the price for an interface I was already used to and the ability to clone the same drive in less than two hours.
spynoodle
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Yeah, but Clonezilla always clones at the maximum transfer rate between your drives. I don't really see a reason to have to pay for HDClone.
Yeah, but Clonezilla always clones at the maximum transfer rate between your drives. I don't really see a reason to have to pay for HDClone.
You don't have to.
Fact is, I was unaware of clonezilla at the time I needed the tool. I found HDCLone, and that's what I use.
Maybe next time I will try clonezilla. Maybe not-- I need to get my $25 worth, no?
spynoodle
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True. If you already payed for it, then heck, why not?
spynoodle
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Nice to hear, thanks.
demonikal
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Can you clone a hard disk drive to a USB drive?
The reason I ask is that I'm going to give my laptop away and get a newer one. Since Dell includes Windows 8 on their drives these days, I thought I'd clone the drive to another drive to use in the future if need be (the person I'm giving this to is going to put a different operating system on, so I'll deactivate Win 8 before giving it to them).
I have the USB to SATA drive cord and the power cord, but I just thought that it might be possible with Macrium Reflect to clone a HDD to a USB drive, as long as the USB drive is big enough.
The reason I ask is that I'm going to give my laptop away and get a newer one. Since Dell includes Windows 8 on their drives these days, I thought I'd clone the drive to another drive to use in the future if need be (the person I'm giving this to is going to put a different operating system on, so I'll deactivate Win 8 before giving it to them).
I have the USB to SATA drive cord and the power cord, but I just thought that it might be possible with Macrium Reflect to clone a HDD to a USB drive, as long as the USB drive is big enough.
On an OEM machine, you will always have issues like this. If you try to boot a hard drive that was originally in an HP laptop that is now in an Asus laptop, the system will recognize its in a different machine and will blue screen or boot loop because of hardware differences. Also even in the odd chance that it does boot to windows then it checks the activation key and knows that its running on different hardware now and not using an HP motherboard so it won't even reactivate.
I never said it was illegal, though it is to run an OS without a valid activation key. You have never been able to do this and have the system work properly. Windows would need to be reinstalled fresh on new hardware/system.
I never said it was illegal, though it is to run an OS without a valid activation key. You have never been able to do this and have the system work properly. Windows would need to be reinstalled fresh on new hardware/system.
