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Rhoban
By Rhoban
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Hey people, 

 

In my rig I've got a 120GB SSD for the OS and a 1TB HDD for storage (mostly games). 

I ordered a 1TB Intel 660P M.2 PCI-E drive to replace the HDD, which should arrive tomorrow, and am looking for a good and reliable cloning software that doesn't give me headaches. Preferably free, but as I'm not going to pay for something that I might use once every couple of years. 

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9 minutes ago, Rhoban said:

Hey people, 

 

In my rig I've got a 120GB SSD for the OS and a 1TB HDD for storage (mostly games). 

I ordered a 1TB Intel 660P M.2 PCI-E drive to replace the HDD, which should arrive tomorrow, and am looking for a good and reliable cloning software that doesn't give me headaches. Preferably free, but as I'm not going to pay for something that I might use once every couple of years. 

Here ya go. https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

 

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Macrium Reflect has a Free edition. I've found it really good for cloning disks. Can boot it from a WinPE environment disk and clone that way, make images, etc - or just clone from within the installed software (Not sure if it slows it down that way, due to OS Read/Write). 

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OS is on its own disk. I'm only cloning my drive which has just the game installs. 

I'll check out those programs. Thanks. 

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+1 for macrium reflect

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It's kind of baffling to me that something as simple as this is sold for money. The Windows World™ is strange.

 

Just use dd on Linux (Live CD/USB Stick/whatever)

 

> Terminal $ dd if=/your/full/hdd of=/your/empty/ssd

Probably will look something like dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb

 

One line and you're done. (After waiting for the copying to finish)

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