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.

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