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Got a new drive and I want to clone my OS to it since it is faster than my current boot drive. I get an "error 9: reached the end of file (38)" no matter what i try. I have run chkdsk, ccleaner, turned off AV, checked drive for bad sectors, gave it more free space, checked sectors (all fine)...

Macrium cloned disk missing partitions. Please help I cloned my old ssd to a new ssd but it wouldnt boot. created a recovery media but it still did not work. Macrium successfully cloned my old disk to the new one. Or so it says. The logs even confirm that the clone was successful. But for some...

Hi, quick information about my situation, just bought a 512gb ssd on which i wanna get the os cloned to from my 128gb ssd, both are m2s and my motherboard only has 1 slot for it. and previously i had all my games installed on my hdd (was running 128gb ssd + 500gb hdd) , so my plan was to clone...

I have been using Inpaint. Simple, easy and almost no learning curve. Does a great job, but am ticked off by their changes. When I bought it about 4 years ago, for a $10 LIFETIME license. First year, upgrade was free. Second and third year the upgrade wiped out the lifetime license and they...

Hi. I’m trying to convert my primary drive to GPT, but it doesn’t work (the usual Cannot find OS partition). I’ve looked at everything that crossed my mind, googled and tried a lot of "solutions", but it it just won't budge. This PC has a long history of Windows upgrades, the original install...

So I have this extra SDD and I wanna clone everything even the Windows files, etc. everything is it possible to fully clone it just via SAta cables?

I've hit a snag while trying to clone an old Windows 2000 PC's 40GB IDE drive to a 'new' 80GB IDE drive. I'm using Clonezilla from a live USB for this task. The new drive, connected via a USB-to-IDE adapter, seems to clone successfully, and the file structure checks out okay. But, I'm stuck...

I recently bought a m2 wd black sn850x 4tb ssd and a ugreen enclosure. My intent was to clone my internal m2 ssd I tried to clone it using arconis true image software. I installed the SSD in the enclosure and cloned the internal drive. I swapped it to inside my laptop however it failed to boot...

I'm going to transfer everything from my SanDisk SATA SSD into a Sabrent Rocket and before I do so, is it possible to move the cloned Sabrent from my current computer into a laptop with an M.2 slot and can I move this same Sabrent from that laptop into the old computer or an entirely different...

My OS SSD is at 25% on CrystalDiskInfo.... I dont know whether or not that is super bad. It is old so I get it but yea. I dont know if I have any backups or recovery and I dont know what I need to really do to recover my data or any files. I dont know much at all about the software side of PCs...

I have. a laptop that the drive is clicking when booting up, def a bad sign! I am wanting a way to clone this drive to a new drive w/o over working the drive to death. Should I use something like Macrium Reflect? I know that requires the drive to be powered on and in windows? Is there a...

First off, Happy New Year's Day to everyone here. :giggle: A few days before Christmas, I had to clone my NVMe to a SSD because I needed to factory reset my PC to prepare it for a RMA (bluetooth was faulty). The problem I'm concerned about is that I had to allow Macrium Reflect to shrink my...

Hi, I am in the process of buying new laptop. I will install Windows 11 on it and then all of the programs I need. I was thinking about cloning image (SSD state) afterwards. That would allow me to save time when i need to crash my system again. I have a few questions. 1) Can I clone SSD image...

Hi all, A buddy of mine cloned his drive onto a 2.5" SSD, ever since, the drive only appears after about 2 mins. That's the first problem 2nd problem, I've tried various methods of formatting the drive (via CMD, 3rd party software, standard windows software). The formatting appears...

Basically, I want to copy my C drive (128g M.2 SSD) which has my Windows OS, other files, etc. to my external USB hard drive and then restore that onto a new larger 1tb M.2 SSD I recently purchased. My motherboard only has one M.2 slot, I assume I could just copy my C drive (OS) to external...

I just purchased a new Samsung 1TB model 970 to replace my almost full 500MB 970 m.2 . I activated the new HDD and selected Simple Volume on Disk 1 and MBR. I did a quick format. See two attached files. I WAS going to attached a bunch of screenshots here but all I get is a box to put a URL...

I have a DELL Inspiron 5477 AIO which was set up by DELL with a 128GB SSD for the operating system and 1TB drive for the DATA drive. I would like to upgrade the 128GB SSD to 256GB SSD. I am able to clone the drive successfully but when I replace the 128GB SSD with the 256CG SSD and boot up the...

I recently decided to switch all my older laptop HDDs to SSDs. My primary has a 750gb Hdd that windows explorer shows has 228gb used, the rest free/empty. I was trying to "update" to a 500gb SSD, but the cloning software MiniPartition shows the drive as 100% full, so I can't migrate the...

Long story short; I've finally used every byte of storage on my dedicated steam drive. It's a Sabrent Rocket 256 M.2 NVME that I've only managed to fill after updating the games I currently have on there. I'm not a hoarder of digital media so it's taken two years to fill that measly 240GB...

So, I have a 250GB 960 EVO and I just installed a 1TB WD black SN750 SE that came with Battlefield 2042 I used acrontis true image and cloned the disk, I then went to BIOS and put the new M.2 as the only bootable device. My 960 EVO used to be C:/ and the WD was Z:/ NOW, it has made the new M.2...

Hi all, Currently I have my OS on my Sata SSD and games/other files spread across some other HDDs. My new motherboard has M.2 support and I'd like to remove the need for HDDs and simply have an M.2 SSD with my OS on, and the Sata SSD for my games/other files. What is the easiest way to...

Tried all the basic stuff, let me run through whats going on. I have an 2tb nvme with windows. Wanted a clean installation, so I decided to first clone that nvme onto a HDD so I can boot from that if something goes wrong. Cloning the HDD worked, but it wasnt able to boot. Couldnt figure it out...

Hi! I make alot of copies of my master slave. I use clonezilla, plug my master to a usb3.0 with an adapter, and connect a slave disk to a usb3.0 with a adapter, and clonezilla in the last usb port. This takes alot of time and it not efficient enough. I clone device to device. I make make 3-4...

The goal is simple. would like to clone my 970 pro 256GB to my new SN850 500GB. I would really like to avoid having setup up apps and windows again because I don't have as much free time as i did before :) I did download the acronis true image from western digital support page. Could that be...

Hey guys, I've recently noticed that while using CrystalDiskInfo 7.0.5 to check the status of my drives, my main storage drive was showing a caution health status with 8 reallocated sectors. The drive in question is a Seagate Barracuda Pro 4TB 7200rpm 128MB Cache HDD I've been using since mid...

I just decided that I should use my SSD as my home drive after I got a new 2tb data HDD. However, when I try to clone, I get "Clone failed - Error 9 - Read Failed - 23 - Data error (cyclic redundancy check)". Also, whenever it gives me the error, I get a windows 10 notification saying that the...

Hello all, I currently have an old machine which controls a CNC machine, it runs Windows 7 Pro and is set up in such a way that it's not entirely possible to replicate it and setting something up new would cost a lot of money i would rather avoid spending. It is currently experiencing regular...

Hi, I happen to have a 500GB HDD that won't open properly. It is detectable both under Windows and Ubuntu. So, I decided to follow the most common guide I found online, back it up. I use DDRescue to clone/copy whatever is possible to a 4TB HDD. After running it for 2d 22h 24m, the process...

I recently factory reset my pc and then cloned my windows from my hard drive to my ssd. After that I shut down my pc but it would automatically startup so I turned off fast start up and I was finally able to shut down my pc. After that I went into the bios, changed the boot sequence so that I...

If a motherboard has a slot for both an old HDD and another slot for a new SSD, will I need an adapter to clone the HDD to the SDD or can I have both installed at the same time in the motherboard when performing a complete clone? It looks like no, but I just need to check my knowledge since it...

Hi, Yesterday I cloned the full contents of my HDD (including a Windows and a Ubuntu partition) to my new SSD (Samsung 860 EVO). I can now successfully boot into Ubuntu from the SSD, but when trying to boot into Windows (when my HDD is not connected anymore), I get a blue screen displaying...

Using Macrium's program and I'm stuck. I have two identical hard drives and want to clone disk 1 (source) to disk 2 (target) but don't know if I have to enlarge or reduce any partitions. Can anyone help here?

I had a samsung 970 plus nvme installed with windows, I upgraded to samsung 980 pro nvme. My goal was to clone 970 files with windows 10 to my new 980 pro. I selected all partitions of 970 and cloned to a blank 980. I then tested the 980.. everything worked fine. Booted into windows 10 off of...

I used Aomei Backupper Standard 6.4 Free version to clone my XPG M.2 PCIE SSD 1TB to my external Seagate Hard drive 7 TB. Once cloning was complete, I noticed an issue with partition 3. The data size of partition 3 for the source is 653.97 GB, whereas the data size of partition 3 for the clone...

I've been using a 1TB HDD as my sole drive for a good amount of time before recently getting an internal 1TB SATA SSD. I want to transfer everything from my HDD (OS, pictures, movies, games, etc.) to the new SSD so I can use it as both a boot drive and primary data drive. I tried using Macrium...

I've tried Chkdsk /r and /b and after using EaseUS there are 3 bad sectors and I can access like 99% of the data like pictures and videos fine but if I try to transfer it out using an image or cloning it to another HDD/SSD it keeps crashing and saying the device is disconnecting (it's an...

I cloned a HDD to a SSD with MiniTool ShadowMaker and everything works except the Outlook data wasn't copied over. The profile was saved but the emails had to be redownloaded and the contacts weren't there. I've done this multiple times with different computers and get the same result. Not sure...

I have a HP Envy laptop with dual drive bays. I recently got a Samsung SSD to improve performance, used Macrium Reflect to clone the SSD (set in drive bay 2) from my HDD (set in drive bay 1). The clone was successful. However, as the HP BIOS has only "OS Boot Manager" option (no separate HDD and...

Hello everyone! Recently, I've been looking for some type of software that allows me to create a customized version of a Linux distro along with my settings and tweaks made to it. In my case for multiple computers, what I've been currently doing has been a two-step process: #1 - I deploy a...

Hi there. I don't post to forums unless I've spent considerable time researching the question I have and I can't find a straight answer anywhere. So here goes. The age old question of what do you do when you buy a new computer and want to transfer EVERYTHING exactly the way it was (including...