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  • Small rant

    Why is switching hard drives so freakin' complicated? Web tutorials make it look and sound super easy, but it took me 12 hours and several attempts to finally get the new hard disk all cloned from my original and installed and bootable. I tried three different migragration/cloning apps, and the one that finally worked was the manufacturer's, which almost every review of said was crap. Worked flawlessly for me. After I found where to GET it, since it didn't actually come with the hard drive and none of the documentation with it mentioned the manufacturer's software or where to find it. And while I'm ranting... BAD Windows! BAD! *whacks the computer with a rolled up magazine* I'm quite unfond of how difficult Win10 makes some computer management tasks.

    I did achieve success finally, though, and now have over 700GB of unused storage and my original 250GB SSD as a spare (the new hard disk is SSD also). Hooray!
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  • #2
    I've actually never cloned a drive when upgrading. (ETA: But if I did, I think I'd use Clonezilla.)

    If it's the system drive, I often just do a reinstall, but if not, well, I know what hoops to jump through.

    If it's anything else, I just copy from old to new, file-by-file.
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    • #3
      Quoth Deserted View Post
      If it's anything else, I just copy from old to new, file-by-file.
      The command prompt and the xcopy command are your friends.
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      • #4
        I know of xcopy, but I literally can't remember the last time I used it for anything.

        I use an orthodox file manager (Servant Salamander, a very old (1998) version of Altap Salamander) that makes copying trivial. (Source drive/directory in one pane, target in the other, Ctrl+A, F5, Enter... walk away, it'll take a while.) GUI-as-productivity-tool for the win!

        (And for the record, I do it this way to get a clean start on fragmentation. Imaging will leave the files just a fragmented as before.)
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        • #5
          Just be absotively posolutely certain that your destination drive is empty when usng XCOPY. By default, it wipes out whetever's there during the process, and *then* brings your old data over.
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          • #6
            Quoth EricKei View Post
            Just be absotively posolutely certain that your destination drive is empty when usng XCOPY. By default, it wipes out whetever's there during the process, and *then* brings your old data over.
            That's new to me. As of Win7, Xcopy is still a batch-version of Copy. It saves time due to reading a batch of files, then writing, instead of one file at a time like Copy.

            Edit: A little quick research shows no destination deletion on Win 10, either.
            Last edited by Buzzard; 04-05-2018, 12:45 AM.

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            • #7
              My favourites are;

              If the destination drive is larger than the one I'm cloning I just use this cloning device; (Spinning rust & 2.5" SSDs).

              Anything else I use Easus Todo Backup. I've never had a problem with their utilities, they're normally free for limited home use and the UIs are nice and simple but with deep menus if you want to fiddle
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