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Cloning Windows Server 2012 to a new HDD

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Clonezilla all day long.

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Hey everyone,

 

I currently run windows Server 2012 Essentials and a fileshare sever on my network. The boot drive is an 80gb 2.5" HDD (old PS3 drive funny enough). I just bought a couple new 80gb 3.5" HDDs (15 dollars each at Canada Computers :D) and want to clone the Server install to the new drive.

 

My question is what is your cloning tool of choice? I don't think it should be too difficult because its 80gb -> 80gb (meaning there is no NTFS partition expanding). 

 

Just looking for some recommendations as there are so many programs that will do this and a lot of them can be kind of crappy or bloated. Thanks!

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Clonezilla all day long.

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Clonezilla all day long.

I've heard of this one, I'll give it a shot to see what happens.

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Clonezilla worked flawlessly once I looked at the doc where it said to run the makeboot.bat file. Thanks!

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