Best method/tool for cloning a HARD drive for data recovery default?

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• Help to remove the partition on a hard drive and data recovery

  I have two hard drives in my PC, the C: drive is 80 GB, and the F: drive is 120 GB.  The second drive (120 GB) is divided into two partitions.  I just deleted the partitions and makes the hard drive again in a single disc, however I had some important files on the F: drive that I thought I had copied to the C: drive but they are not there.  Is there anyway that is using the software I can return the drive to two drives and recover my data, please help

  Hello

  First of all, do not use the hard drive. This can make things sunk. A few things may already be unrecoverable. I would even delete the drive letter to stop inadvertently automated processes to use.

  There are two ways I can think of.

  1. buy a partitioning software disk that supports the undelete partition. On windows XP PartitionMagic was a very good product if symantec will still sell it. Given that Symantec has continued to develop, I had to switch to product partition Paragon. Sound was trash to some things, cloning in particular a double boot with loads of partitions - it has an undelete function which I didn't use. The fact that you have created a new partition could mean that the restoration may not work. You may need to delete the current, probably empty, partition everything first and then perform the restoration.

  2. buy a data recovery software that will scan the hard drives, including the unpartitioned space. I chose R-Studio and it was very good stuff even recovery from hard drives that fail. It was not 100% effective, but it is perhaps down to the severity of failure rather than the product. In situations like yours, it was very effective.

  Please mark this as useful or response if applicable.

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• Samsung hard drive crash data recovery

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• Cloning the hard drive on desktop PC Inspiron 620

  New Member, first post here, great resource.

  I work a friend with his desktop computer Dell Inspiron 620; 3.5 years.  The hard drive begins to run out, but computer still works fine right now.

  I ordered a recovery and support on the way via Dell out of warranty support in case the disc falls in catastrophic failure before we get to this.  But rather than use this recovery media, reload the operating system, drivers, all applications, customization, etc.  I'm thinking of 'cloning' of the current hard drive while the original hard drive is still operational.

  I have never cloned a drive before, but I understand that this would be the procedure. I buy a new identical replacement hard drive (found a 3.5 Sata 1 TB size) and also buy an external USB enclosure for the new disc, connect the new drive via a USB cable, start the cloning software, and then install the disc cloned when cloning is done in the computer?

  No disadvantage of 'cloning' vs reload the operating system?  Any recommendations of any free cloning software, I consider using?   Cloning especially appealed to me because it is a highly customized small business computer.  Get this computer to its current state the long way is certainly feasible, but I want to do the simplest possible.

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  Birchlake

  New Member, first post here, great resource.

  I work a friend with his desktop computer Dell Inspiron 620; 3.5 years.  The hard drive begins to run out, but computer still works fine right now.

  I ordered a recovery and support on the way via Dell out of warranty support in case the disc falls in catastrophic failure before we get to this.  But rather than use this recovery media, reload the operating system, drivers, all applications, customization, etc.  I'm thinking of 'cloning' of the current hard drive while the original hard drive is still operational.

  I have never cloned a drive before, but I understand that this would be the procedure. I buy a new identical replacement hard drive (found a 3.5 Sata 1 TB size) and also buy an external USB enclosure for the new disc, connect the new drive via a USB cable, start the cloning software, and then install the disc cloned when cloning is done in the computer?

  No disadvantage of 'cloning' vs reload the operating system?  Any recommendations of any free cloning software, I consider using?   Cloning especially appealed to me because it is a highly customized small business computer.  Get this computer to its current state the long way is certainly feasible, but I want to do the simplest possible.

  Thanks in advance for help people...

  Birchlake

  There is no need to buy an external enclosure, just install the drive to be cloned as secondary, all you need is a SATA data cable, there is a spare SATA power connector already within the chassis, for an additional HD.

  The simplest method I prefer is to clone the existing hard drive to the new, that will also transfer all applications and programs.

  You need an imaging utility, similar to True Image Home 2016.

  http://www.Acronis.com/homecomputing/products/TrueImage

  Acronis resize partitions transferred to match the size of the new hard drive.

  I also found the free version of AOMEI of Backupper to be excellent and have used it with great success with Windows 8.1 and 10

  http://www.backup-utility.com/free-backup-software.html

  Hard drive manufacturers, also have their own free cloning software available, but it can be used only with their hard drives.

  First, install the new drive as the secondary and the image of the main hard drive in it.

  Immediately after the cloning, shut down the system, switch the data cable [SATA port 0] to the new disk, making the new master hard drive and see if the system boots properly.

  Start the system with only the new hard drive connected.

  Be sure to leave the original drive disconnected, until the new hard drive is working to your satisfaction.

  Before cloning a hard drive, make sure that the existing drive has no corruption or virus on it, because they will be transferred to the new hard drive.

  As we already mentioned, it will take a second SATA data cable, there should be a spare connector to SATA power inside the housing.

  Bev.

• How can I make the best use of a new external hard drive and a new catalog full of photos just loaded into Photoshop elements 14 Organizer?

  How can I make the best use of a new external hard drive and a new catalog full of photos just loaded into Photoshop elements 14 Organizer?

  Keep all the files on external hard drive image?  Nothing else and no pictures on the desktop?

  Keep all image files both places?

  What is the best way to go through thousands of images in the Organizer to identify and place them in files?

  Once I've placed a file, I just leave it in the entire catalog or a way indicate to me that it has been sorted?

  As overwhelming, any tips/shortcuts/schemes, you can offer are welcome!

  As I only have the version of the EP, here is some info on the organiser:

  https://helpx.Adobe.com/Photoshop-elements/how-to/use-elements-Organizer.html

  Independent of how this feature works, you want to have your photos in one place and have a backup (second copy) somewhere else. All hard drives will not be successful at some point - some more early, some late - never trust to have your files in any safety devices if they are on a single disc. Once you have your sorted, it would be useful that you will organize/name/tag new photos immediately if the task is relatively short and simple. I copy my photos on my internal hard drive for my camera, take a quick look with preview to see who needs some changes and then decide where to put them - either drop them immediately after naming them or bring in an editing application and then file them away.

• What are compatibility problems in cloning a hard drive with 32 MB cache to a cache of 16 MB or vice versa?

  Are there compatibility issues during the cloning of a HD with 32 MB Max for a max of 16 MB, or vice versa, HD the two 500 GB drives.

  Thank you in anticipation.

  Original title: cloning of hard drives with Max different buffers

  Hi blacksmith60,

  No, there is no problem with compatibility. But, you may notice a slight change in speed and performance.

• HP Pavilion p6290d: change to smaller capacity desktop hard drive using the recovery disks

  Currently my hard drive (750 GB) is having a problem. I have a spare hard drive (500 GB), I can replace the 750Go with the 500 GB hard drive using the recovery disks that I created when I got the pc?

  Hello:

  All I can say is that you have nothing to lose to give a try.

  500 GB could be sufficient to allow the recovery discs, you did to work.

• HP Envy Touchsmart j122TX 15: cloning of HARD drive for an SSD and installation on HP Envy Touchsmart 15 j122TX

  I will replace an old 1 TB HHD by a new 1 TB SSD Samsung 850 EVO on my HP Envy 15 Touchsmart j122TX. I also have Acronis True Image 2015. How can I go on cloning of the HDD to the SSD and installing the SSD on my HP, implementation of the operating system in order to ensure a good performance? Please give me step by step instructions I'm inexperienced. Thank you for your support.

  You need a bootable media because you cannot clone Windows player while it is in use. If you start another source (bootable support) leaving the main hard drive passive and quiet, so it can be copied sector to the new clean disk. I explained you start from the Acronis Disk and when the interface is in place you select "utility" and one of them is 'clone disk '. This is how you use the bootable disc in the cloning process.

  As with the post before me you simply remove the MSSD. However, in this case the user would do a clean install. Cloning will be hover over the driver of storage for the SSD controller and will not have to load the RAID driver separately. The way you do it is much easier.  I would like to dissociate the WSSD since the main hard drive using Intel Rapid Storage (disable acceleration), remove the WSSD and start-up of the former hard drive without the WSSD in place one or two times before cloning.

• Cloning a hard drive using LabVIEW

  I'm trying to clone my laptop 476 GB HDD for a 450 GB SSD.  The data on the laptop HARD drive are about 350 GB total, so there should be.  Each commercial application, I've tried has failed to be cloned for one reason or another.

  So I thought, ' Hey, I have a development environment, I'll do my own cloning software in LabVIEW!  I understand that sector-by-sector copy of data is extremely low, but is it possible to do this in LabVIEW?  My research drew a blank.

  Thank you

  Malcolm

  Yes, unfortunately you have almost 0 chance to be able to do it using LabVIEW (except trying to hang in an application that does) as LabVIEW is a high too high level language - all file system operations pass by and get handled by the operating system.

  As others have said, you should reduce the partition first, before you can move the disk - many tools better cloning can do for you. Unfortunately, I don't remember the name of the tool, I used to do it on my laptop but I certainly heard of the Acronis software before. Make a copy of the file in the operating system will not work because it won't copy things like the boot sector information.

  There are also a few layouts guard/traps around moving a HDD to SSD (for most around things like sector sizes) - it is useful to have a read around this before you start.

• PC Diagnostic in my Satellite C660 tool shows FAIL to HARD drive

  When I run the PC Diagnostic tool in my Satellite C660 it shows the result as "FAILURE" for the hard drive.
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  Post edited by: Sammy007

  > When I start the PC Diagnostic tool in my satellite c660 it shows the result as "FAILURE" for the hard drive. Is there a problem with the hard drive?

  He said nothing, I mean diagnostic tool Pc can can show result falsely and the drive works very well himself. In any case, backup all data in case of failure. You can also download the 3rd party program to test the State of the hard drive. (such as hard drive Inspector)

• Best free tool for rezising of partition which should support the client as a server operating system.

  Does anyone know about a free tool for other than DiskPart Disk Partition resizing? It should support the clients and servers OS.

  Hello JawadQazi,

  There are many free tools for the Partition of drive on the internet. Please search an internet. Some tools have free trials and others have a load for the tool. You will need to do research on who will provide a tool best suited to your needs.

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• Services Windows problems after cloning a HARD drive

  Hello

  I recently cloned my HARD for one SSD drive, using the SSD as my boot device. Since then, I was able to successfully access Windows services.

  For example, I've tried to expand a partition on my SSD and went to computer management. I got a message saying that it

  "cannot open log events on the computer service.

  I click OK and the computer management opens.

  Clicking on device management, I get a long enough message that appears that says

  'Disk management could not open Virtual Disk Service (VDS) [name of the hard drive]. This can occur if the remote computer does not support VDS, or if a connection cannot be established because it has been blocked by a firewall of Windows. For more information see on diagnose and correct this problem, see Troubleshooting Disk Management by using disk management. »

  I click OK and the message disappears.

  If I click on Services and Applications in the left pane I get WMI control and Services in the central pane.

  I double-click on Services, scroll down to virtual disk, double-click anywhere on the line, I get

  "Windows could not open the service of virtual disk for playback on the local computer. Error 1726 the remote procedure call failed. »

  Is someone can you please tell me what is happening? What have I done? Why am I not able to access disk management?

  I tried sfc/scannow and I get the message

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  EEK! What have I done?

  Thanks for the help, but I thought about it.

  I had turned off by mistake in my BIOS PATA, and causing the problem.

  Thank you for taking the time to respond, however. It's very appreciated.

• Best way to preserve MiniDV to hard drive

  Hello!

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  I want to keep the images because it's on the MiniDV tape, so the version stored on the hard drive is a perfect replica of the Strip.

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• Cloning a hard drive

  The motherboard on my 2008 MacBook Pro 15 took a fatal plunge. I saved the hard drive and put it in a USB enclosure, tested and it works fine. I have a MBP 15 2009 I picked up someone else in good condition and would like to clone the system and the data of the other drive on the newer machine. A single disk swap is not an option because the newer machine has a 9 installed SSD.

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  Try to boot from the external drive first to make sure that the operating system on the outside starts the new MBP.

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• VMWare Converter - cloning of hard drives

  I'm looking to virtualize a phyiscal server, but I have a question that I can't find the answer.  The server I want to virtualize has two hard disks (100GB & 800 GB).

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  Hello.

  My question, VMWare Converter will only make a virtual machine that has two virtual hard disks; a 100 GB and the other 800 GB?  Problem is that my hypervisor has 900 GB free.  I hope that it will only copy on space used and I would put a buffer of hard drive space.  Comments welcome!

  You can choose to resize the destination process devices.  As long as you have the required amount of free space, you will be fine.

  Good luck!