- #EZ GIG IV CLONING SOFTWARE WINDOWS 10 LICENSE KEY#
- #EZ GIG IV CLONING SOFTWARE WINDOWS 10 CODE#
- #EZ GIG IV CLONING SOFTWARE WINDOWS 10 WINDOWS#
Use ntfsclone to copy the filesystem from the source drive to the target drive.ġ00% reliable and all said in Cloning drives: This goes very fast and doesn't leave the drive all fragmented to fuck, because most of the work has already been done by MyDefrag. Use ntfsresize on the source drive to shrink the filesystem to the size of the target partition.
#EZ GIG IV CLONING SOFTWARE WINDOWS 10 WINDOWS#
Use parted to fix the partition table on the new drive so that the Windows partition actually fits on it. This means that Windows will end up seeing the same disk ID it started with so it doesn't get all stroppy when I eventually boot the clone.
#EZ GIG IV CLONING SOFTWARE WINDOWS 10 CODE#
Use dd to copy the boot code and partition table from the old drive to the new one. The monthly script does more work to get stuff positioned optimally for a spinny disk, but both will push almost everything as close to the beginning of the drive as it will go. If I'm going to be cloning to an SSD, the "System disk daily" script is faster and equally good. Use MyDefrag's "System disk monthly" script to defrag the source drive. Until it tried to write to that Standard Windows drive cloning process for me: Well, so long as there weren't actual files in the missing area, it would be fine for a little while. If the modern CHKDISK-equivalent is smart enough to just resize the FS, or if it'll shit the bed or what. Still, yes, back then resizing NTFS was a pain, because the tooling didn't move the MFT all that well, and certain other issues that required a chkdsk to said in Cloning drives: And to my knowledge, most Linux distros do not open files willy nilly on NTFS volumes unless you're intentionally doing so. I meant, sure that's true about the MFT, but there's no reason to assume that files that aren't open by a process aren't able to be moved. The problem was in the partition resize which (at least in win7) wasn't capable of moving certain system files, so you had to disable the subsystem that owned them or trick it into moving them. Kids' drives worked no problem with the EZ Gig IV said in Cloning Well obviously you can't do the clone while it's running. Went much faster and it actually cloned as expected. Went back to Macrium Reflect (which I had started downloading, but stopped because it was huge and kept stalling). Shit, gotta be a better way than ruining some dollars by converting to funny money. Ah, cool! only then I notice that to actually clone a working harddrive you need the paid version (something like 16 euros). So, I start looking around.Father in law recommended Miray HDClone. Hmm.maybe it's that fucking fast restart bug! DISABLE. Yikes! Worse than Windows Update! But OK, it's what I'm doing, so go ahead.I expected that it would set one of those "Do this on next restart" tasks and happen probably before I could even login.Įxcept.the login page came up as normal. If you don't reboot immediately the copy won't happen! You must reboot before this copy can happen.
#EZ GIG IV CLONING SOFTWARE WINDOWS 10 LICENSE KEY#
Ugh.OK, well, the drive came with a license key for Acronis!ĭ.Select source.Select destination.
I seem to be a victim of MS's CADT approach to user home directory layouts. Uh.yeah, but it's a tiny amount of data! You said you handled this! Ugh.OK, thinks I, I can outsmart this software! I'll create some giant "fake" files in Videos and tell it to exclude those!īut.it turns out that it can't find the directory. OK, plug in the drive, insert the CD and fire up the cloning software!ĮRROR: THE TARGET DRIVE IS SMALLER THAN THE SOURCE DRIVE The kids both got 500GB SSDs (one HD was already 500GB, the other was 320, so no problems there). Well, cool, my wife's laptop (only a few months old) had a 1TB drive, but there was less than 200GB on there, and I was planning on getting her a 750GB SSD. I looked into the software, and it claimed to handle copying a larger drive to a smaller drive, even if there was more data on the big drive (you could tell it to ignore, e.g., Documents or Videos or something). I already had an Apricorn laptop kit that came with a USB connector and software, EZ Gig IV.
I bought the wife and kids SSDs for their laptops this year for Christmas.
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