VMWare Converter - cloning of hard drives

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• 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.

• 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.

  Thanks in advance for help people...

  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.

• 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.

• 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

  "Protection of resources Windows could not start repair service".

  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.

• 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.

• is it possible to convert an external hard drive from FAT32 to NTFS?

  I have a WD 1 TB HARD drive with FAT32 extension and I try to copy files larger than 4 GB (which does NOT support the FAT32). I've been looking for a solution and I found that the best solution is converted to NTFS.

  My questions are, is there another way? If there is no other way, is there a possibility of data loss? How to convert?

  Convert to NTFS will not result in data loss (of course, there is always that chance but it is not intended to do and I haven't heard any problems with how it works under Vista) If you follow the instructions below.

  There is no other way if you want to copy the largest filses - only NtFS that will allow.  NTFS is better anyway because it also gives you more options seciurity and is better designed (in addition to being able to handle files of any size).

  Here is the procedure: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Convert-a-hard-disk-or-partition-to-NTFS-format.

  I hope this helps.

  Good luck.

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

  I've been brooding on this topic "what method / tool is the best for the cloning of a HDD failure - including the drive from the system - for the recovery of data on the clone." Someone at - he tried cloning for this specific purpose and got no results? I would be interested if they can share their experience or even air their views on the subject.

  Use one of the following... but do it quickly.

  If you have a Western Digital hard drive, you can get a version of Acronis True Image free of WD (http://support.wdc.com/product/downloaddetail.asp?swid=119) or you can get the software of cloning separately (this is not an exhaustive list and in no particular order, some are free, some not):

  Acronis True Image Home
  EASEUS ToDo Backup
  Paragon Drive Copy or Partition Manager Personal
  Casper
  Norton Ghost

  XXClone

  Macrium Reflect free

• VMware Converter, XP and SCSI driver - in addition, deployment

  Hi all

  I created a virtual XP of Windows machine of a physical machine with VMware Converter. But now I'm invited with an error message when you start the virtual machine, stating that I have not a SCSI driver that I need. I did some research on Google about this topic and tried a few things, but have so far is not solved this problem. Any ideas/tips?

  Also, I'm about to deploy this virtual machine through the Casper Suite. There was a white paper by JAMF on the deployment of version 2 of Fusion, but I did not do any concrete documentation with 4. If the resources or experience you have would be appreciated.

  Thank you!

  Another option to remove all the 'messages say just Ok' is
  msg.noOK = 'TRUE '.

  > Would it be

  > scsi0:0.redo = «»

  None

• Of a VBox OVF 0.9 to VMWare image with 2 hard drives

  Hello world

  I'm trying to convert a VirtualBox 3.1.4 image with 2 hard drives with OVFTool 1.00 x 64 linux.

  ~/VirtualBox$ ovftool - noDisks MANAGER .ovf-SDM SDM - MANAGER .vmx

  Source OVF opening: SDM - MANAGER .ovf

  Target VMX opening: SDM - MANAGER .vmx

  Error:

  -"3" of the "vim.vm.device.VirtualIDEController" device has been found. Only '2' permit

  I can't find the solution to the problem. Could someone help me on this?

  I added the ovf file to the post!

  Kind regards

  Jeroen van Hoef

  Hi Jeroen

  A quick glance on the OVF, you have as far as I can see that you have 1 IDE controller using 'address = 1' this translates to be IDE 1 controller on the motherboard. Controllers IDE are the default devices you'll be controller IDE automatically get to address 0 defined for example the 0 on the motherboard IDE controller.

  Second, you set the CD-ROM to use AddressOnParent = 0, which is the same disc 1 with InstanceId 8 AddressOnParent have.

  A fix for your OVF is therefore to define a second controller ide like

  < item >

  < rasd:Caption > ideController0 < / rasd:Caption >

  < rasd:Description > IDE controller < / rasd:Description >

  < rasd:InstanceId > 20 < / rasd:InstanceId >

  < rasd:ResourceType > 5 < / rasd:ResourceType >

  < rasd:ResourceSubType > PIIX4 < / rasd:ResourceSubType >

  < rasd:Address > 0 < / rasd:Address >

  < rasd:BusNumber > 0 < / rasd:BusNumber >

  < / point >

  map the drive to use it (you can do this by changing the Parent = 2) ide controller.

  It may be useful

  Eske

• 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.

  Can I do this? How?

  Thanks in advance.

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

  If that's the case then you can use Super Duper or Carbon Copy Cloner to create a bootable clone.

• After cloning question: I cloned my hard drive storage to a bigger successfully, but now how I reconnect the old hdd?

  I want to reformat the old hdd but I fear now reconnect as my cpu works fine.  I don't want to confuse Windows by the connected disk mirror.  I searched through the forums and can't find anything in this regard. I continue to find issues with cloning, which I don't have and I don't want to create everything by making a simple mistake by being impatient and do not ask for help first.

  Here's where I am. I have a 120 GB SSD SanDisk with my OS (8 64-bit Windows) and now a HGST 7200 RPM 4 TB HDD 6 GB/s 64 mb cache (the successful clone!) disk storage of data, games, photos, videos, etc.. The HGST replaces what I want the reconnection that is my old Samsung 1 TB 7200 RPM 32 MB cache as an internal backup storage drive but I don't know if it Plug and boot in windows are correct and I can just reformat from there, or if there is something I do with Acronis (software used for cloning) via cd , or if I have to go into bios before reconnecting and do a few manual adjustments it first (if any what should I do?), or any other possibility, I just didn't think. Any comments would be much appreciated!

  I think maybe is there a way to connect it to my laptop first, then reformat. that would work of course but there must be a simpler solution and I don't want to be impatient, just try to reconnect to the motherboard via sata and discover I have created a problem to have two readers E suddenly or some other "witch hunt" question post cloning.

  To summarize: I have already cloned successfully, do not look NOT of advice on that. I worry just reconnect my old drive and which "traps", I can avoid this case and how!

  Thank you

  Justin S

  Hello

  If the player does not have a top OS, just hang up... should be no problem.

  Even if the drive has the same name, no problem, because windows will just assign a different drive letter. It can replace the 4 to to something else or it could change the 1 to letter...

  Not much. Once your kicked in windows, you can go to disk management and assign any drive you want for both drives letters... Right-click on COMPUTER and select MANAGE

  Or... just delete the partitions and reformat it, especially since you saved...

  Acronis image will do this I think. I'm sure you could use their Disk Director.

  I use both, but I don't remember with certainty if image will be Format\Delete...

  There are free bootable programs who will do well. Like EASEUS, Aomei and Parted Magic...

  You can either format in advance, or start in windows, do a right click on COMPUTER and select MANAGE, disk management. At this stage you will be responsible to initialize the disk

  (select MBR or GPT), and then will come the screen for formatting

• Cloning of hard drives.

  How can I clone the HD of a source of Inspiration or a Latitude?

  
  

• How to partition a hard drive for a B50-70 for Linux? No problem with that?

  Hello

  How to partition a hard drive for a B50-70?

  I want to install Linux and keep Windows 8.1 also.

  This will affect the software factory example: back up hard drive function, OKR?

  Problems partitioning B50 of the 1970s?

  Is it acquisitions have 8.1 Windows on a laptop Lenovo-B50-7?

  What will happen if I got rid of Windows 8.1 operating system?

  Thanks in advance.

  Information on the machine:

  B50-70

  Model name: 20384

  Windows 8.1

  I've not seen / heard of successful use of the flash drive for recovery purposes. The default software using optical disk, when I used it on my G580.

  If your laptop does not have a CD / DVD burner, you may need to contact them directly to discuss this option.

  As to where he is? It is a hidden partition on the hard drive, is usually not accessible.

  Cloning the hard drive can not return to that partition hidden - it would be a little bit the clone of the drive to work.

  I recommend to download your manual of maintenance on the Support site and learn more about the 100% specific for your laptop recovery process.

  CB

• I switch my laptop hard drive from FAT32 to NTFS via a command prompt and now cannot read the disc.

  convert my portable hard drive from FAT32 to NTFS by using the command line.
  After conversion, my pc can not read my laptop hard drive, I check the computer, my protable hd management 1175 GB, my drive only of 500 GB hard probatle, be how to 1175bg? can someone help me? now I can't play my disc hard protable.

  http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/4338/002ilq.jpg

  Check this box:

  http://www.tech-FAQ.com/how-to-convert-FAT32-to-NTFS.html