Cheapest/Most efficient way to clone a laptop?

Stormcrownn · August 16, 2017

Hello,

My mom recently passed away and I wanted to give her MSI Laptop to my grandmother to use, but I want to clone her current computer so i can access it like it is now. Ideally i'd like to have her existing system cloned onto a 3.5" HDD so i can have it in my current PC tower.

I'm not sure of the cheapest way to do this, so I would greatly appreciate any suggestions/assistance.

Himommies · August 16, 2017

Just DDU all the drivers and stuff and swap the hard drives

RadiatingLight · August 16, 2017

sorry for your loss.

Macrum reflect might help.

RadiatingLight · August 16, 2017

Just now, Himommies said:

Just DDU all the drivers and stuff and swap the hard drives

well, I assume he only has 2 drives, one 2.5 inch, and one 3.5 inch.

he wants to swap the data between them.

unknownmiscreant · August 16, 2017

If its a 2.5" drive, pull it out, plug it into your desktop, copy all the data off it, then put it back in the laptop, and give to your grandmother.

BrightCandle · August 17, 2017

You can create disk clones precisely using DD in linux. Make a bootable USB stick and boot into linux and use dd (plenty of guides online) and copy the entire contents to a drive or file and then you can go about utilising that copy as you wish.