Zigen Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Hi guys,wondering if any of you can help me regarding cloning a Hard Drive.I have a 120 Gb Hard drive that is divided into C drive (40 Gb) & D Drive (80 Gb), that I would like to clone into a formatted 160 gb hard drive. I would like this newly cloned drive to do exactly as the source drive, to have a C & D drive as well as boot my operating system win 8.1 and have all the files there as if it's an exact clone. I have already attached the clone drive to my PC.As I'm not sure how to even start, I suppose I have to make 2 new partitions in the destination clone drive so as to be the same? I'm tried to partition it to 60 & 90 Gb, so the source drive has more than enough space to move all files over. But when I went to Disk Management in Windows 8, I get confused with all the new volume partition thing, I made 2 new volumes, drives F & I were automatically assigned to them, But I'm confused with the "dynamic drive", "system volume", "logical drive" etc etc. I just selected new volumes.I'm using Macrium Reflect Pro to clone the drive, at the moment it's in progress but I don't know if I have done the correct thing so far? Did I have to do something to make the new clone disk be able to boot my win 8? Or is there another better or easier software that automatically helps you select and format new partitions to be ready for cloning?I doubt my current cloning will succeed correctly, so please give me some advice, thanks!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponting Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 This might help...http://kb.macrium.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50081.aspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zigen Posted November 20, 2013 Author Share Posted November 20, 2013 This might help...http://kb.macrium.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50081.aspxThanks I will read and try again, I just finished my clone process, it appears all files have been copied but I cannot boot into windows when I use the new clone drive. It gives some grub error thing. Hopefully next round will be better! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mohamed atif Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 :hi: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linus Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 You can also try HDClone. Successfuly cloned many Hard drives in the past using this software.Homepage: http://www.miray.de/download/sat.hdclone.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorel Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Acronis True Image has an option to clone HDD, maybe it's ok for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zigen Posted November 20, 2013 Author Share Posted November 20, 2013 (edited) THanks very much guys, I finally got it to work, I think lol :lol:My hard drive has been completely cloned onto another drive. I tried the cloned drive for the first time, it seems normal and everything but took quite long to start up my win 8.1, I dunno if it's because it's the first time or something is missing lol. Then my microsoft project pro did a reinstaller thing, but other than that it seems normal, all my licenses are still intact. Everything seems normal at the moment, in fact i'm using the cloned drive to do all these. Don't know if my raid controller did anything to help.For those who are curious how I cloned my hard drive, this is what I did. (You must have both your drives plugged into your pc)I went to Windows Disk management, did a delete all the volumes of the target clone drive. Make sure it says basic unallocated after the delete. It must not be dynamic.Then I used Macrium Reflect which you can download from our own Nsane forums.http://www.nsaneforums.com/topic/169761-macrium-reflect-professional-51-build-5870-;/Watch this youtube video and follow the exact instructions.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwBdbhqtjA8If u follow everything correctly, you should clone your drive. Well I hope everything turns out well, will be testing my new drive many times these few days! :D** Update - So far no issues, the boot time for windows 8.1 on the cloned drive is the same as the source drive. Edited November 21, 2013 by Zigen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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