enclosure

[cloneclone]

how to use enclosure

someone said if you put in wrong way it wipes out data

 

enclosure looks like this brand https://www.amazon.com/Inateck-Dual-Bay-Docking-Function-FD2002/dp/B00N1KXE9K

have no idea what specific model it is

 

what are the steps to use this thing?

 

more context over here 

 

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Yea it lets you clone drives. Just put 2 drives in, and push a button and it will clone from one drive to anouther. 

 

Its pretty simple to use, just make sure the drives are the right spots.

[cloneclone]

6 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

push a button and it will clone from one drive to anouther. 

so you dont need software to do this?  when use enclosure?

 

someone said if you put in wrong way, it wipe data

 

this doesnt answer the question of how to put drives in enclos the right way 

 

i asked this in op, and reply doesnt answer this question.....

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, cloneclone said:

o you dont need software to do this?  when use enclosure?

 

 No software needed, that enclosure will do the clone for you

 

1 minute ago, cloneclone said:

someone said if you put in wrong way, it wipe data

 

Yea it copies from A to B, so if you put your source drive in B you lose all your data. Make sure to put source in A and destination in B.

 

 

[Vishera]

38 minutes ago, cloneclone said:

someone said if you put in wrong way, it wipe data

 

Use AOMEI Partition Assistant,it's free and does the same thing instead of the printer looking thing.

[cloneclone]

On 7/24/2021 at 3:21 AM, Electronics Wizardy said:

 No software needed, that enclosure will do the clone for you

 

if no software is needed why is other person saying to use 'AOMEI Partition Assistant'

 

also i dont know exact model of enclosure, i only said that that's the brand

 

On 7/24/2021 at 3:21 AM, Electronics Wizardy said:

Yea it copies from A to B, so if you put your source drive in B you lose all your data. Make sure to put source in A and destination in B.

 

to clarify, are you saying all enclosures do that or just this brand? or this mode?

can you be much much more full and complete in your responses because these short replies in other thread made everything very confusing

[cloneclone]

On 7/24/2021 at 3:59 AM, Vishera said:

AOMEI Partition Assistant

why are you saying to use app when other person said enclosure doesnt need app?

do you know about this topic?

[Vishera]

19 minutes ago, cloneclone said:

why are you saying to use app when other person said enclosure doesnt need app?

do you know about this topic?

Read my reply again:

On 7/24/2021 at 9:59 AM, Vishera said:

does the same thing instead of the printer looking thing.

 

[cloneclone]

On 7/24/2021 at 3:21 AM, Electronics Wizardy said:

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how do we know if using cloning abilties of enclosure is better than app/software?

theres many cloning  app/software, some of them are maybe better than other cloning  app/software

 

also what if enclosure is defective? wont that cause probelms or damage destinined/targeted enclosure?

 shouldnt we test with some dummy drive first?

[cloneclone]

Just now, Vishera said:

does the same thing

if it does the same thing then why not just use enclosure?

 

doesnt software require other items and stuff i dont have?? 

 

why complicate things with an app for? i dont even know how to use this app

[Vishera]

1 minute ago, cloneclone said:

if it does the same thing then why not just use enclosure?

 

This:

On 7/24/2021 at 9:19 AM, cloneclone said:

someone said if you put in wrong way, it wipe data

In software you can clearly set the source and the destination,and you can do a sector by sector copy.

 

3 minutes ago, cloneclone said:

doesnt software require other items and stuff i dont have?? 

Just connect the drives to the PC,there is nothing more to that.

 

4 minutes ago, cloneclone said:

why complicate things with an app for? i dont even know how to use this app

This:

On 7/24/2021 at 9:19 AM, cloneclone said:

someone said if you put in wrong way, it wipe data

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

13 minutes ago, cloneclone said:

 

how do we know if using cloning abilties of enclosure is better than app/software?

theres many cloning  app/software, some of them are maybe better than other cloning  app/software

 

also what if enclosure is defective? wont that cause probelms or damage destinined/targeted enclosure?

 shouldnt we test with some dummy drive first?

They should clone the say way, its pretty simple. 

 

Are the drives both in good health? It can be more complex if the drives have bad sectors.

 

Pretty unlikely the enclosure has issues.

 

12 minutes ago, cloneclone said:

if it does the same thing then why not just use enclosure?

 

doesnt software require other items and stuff i dont have?? 

 

why complicate things with an app for? i dont even know how to use this app

Just get the enclosure and use it. 

 

DO you want a block level or file level copy? Id probably just copy over the files you need, and you can do that in windows explorer, no extra software needed.

 

 

[cloneclone]

On 8/5/2021 at 1:49 AM, Electronics Wizardy said:

Are the drives both in good health? It can be more complex if the

if drive you're copying from (source drive) isn't perfect, then why would it be more complex? you didn't say why

 

On 8/5/2021 at 1:49 AM, Electronics Wizardy said:

DO you want a block level or file level copy?

i dont know what this means?, you didnt explain it

want to just clone the entire drive as said in the original post linked in op

 

On 8/5/2021 at 1:49 AM, Electronics Wizardy said:

no extra software needed.

you said we can just use enclosure, and dont have to use windows explorer or anything else

[cloneclone]

On 8/5/2021 at 1:40 AM, Vishera said:

In software you can clearly set the source and the destination,and you can do a sector by sector copy.

 

so enclosure cannot do 'sector by sector copy'? 

is 'sector by sector copy' what i want tho?

 

is that how you clone the whole entire drive?

 

[cloneclone]

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[Electronics Wizardy]

8 hours ago, cloneclone said:

so enclosure cannot do 'sector by sector copy'? 

is 'sector by sector copy' what i want tho?

 

is that how you clone the whole entire drive?

 

Do you want this clone to be bootable?

 

Normally clone refers to copying sector by sector, otherwise you can just copy the files in a program like windows explorer.

 

7 hours ago, cloneclone said:

there is no articles or comprehensive info on the web for cloning by enclosure

this must not be a very popular or common way to do cloning 

or maybe it's a very old way

 

Seems pretty common, I have had many coworkers do it with systems at work.

[cloneclone]

On 8/9/2021 at 12:23 PM, Electronics Wizardy said:

Do you want this clone to be bootable?

 

os doesnt work, so it wont "boot' or start anyway

 

On 8/9/2021 at 12:23 PM, Electronics Wizardy said:

Normally clone refers to copying sector by secto

cloning entire drive so if that usually means "sector by sector" then i guess ok

 

enclosure doesnt seem common at all since everyone on the entire web says to use software so nobody knows about cloning except for i guess the people that work in one specific place in this entire world. nobody on this entire web knows about enclosures but you....

but since you said enclosure is the exactly the same as software/app except that apps can do more things like partition, then i guess for clone it wont matter since just cloning

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 hours ago, cloneclone said:

os doesnt work, so it wont "boot' or start anyway

 

So then you probably don't want to clone. just copy the files in windows explorer. No need for a special enclosure, just copy and paste.