Comments on: 5 Ways To Clone & Copy Your Hard Drive http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-ways-to-clone-and-copy-your-hard-drive/ Cool Websites, Software and Internet Tips Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tina http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-ways-to-clone-and-copy-your-hard-drive/#comment-436407 Tina Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:52:38 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=10113#comment-436407 >>>>>>> http://www.makeuseof.com/answers/ >>>>>>> http://www.makeuseof.com/answers/

]]> By: ozzy http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-ways-to-clone-and-copy-your-hard-drive/#comment-436404 ozzy Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:44:13 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=10113#comment-436404 I have Western Digital USB External Hard Drive Cap 1GB I begin noticing the problems after my son drop it while I was using it After that I was not being able to have access from my computer, but windows does recognize it on the device manager. I need to rescue my files 3 yrs of familiy fotos and videos. I tried to see maybe it would work on my laptop but I get 2 messages, one is: "Device I/O error" and the other is "Drive not formatted", its asking me to format the drive I don't want to do that. Can anybody help, Please any suggestions. Ok the Question is; Is there a good software that I can use to fix my problem?, whats the name? I have Western Digital USB External Hard Drive Cap 1GB I begin noticing the problems after my son drop it while I was using it After that I was not being able to have access from my computer, but windows does recognize it on the device manager. I need to rescue my files 3 yrs of familiy fotos and videos. I tried to see maybe it would work on my laptop but I get 2 messages, one is: “Device I/O error” and the other is “Drive not formatted”, its asking me to format the drive I don’t want to do that. Can anybody help, Please any suggestions.
Ok the Question is; Is there a good software that I can use to fix my problem?, whats the name?

]]> By: Tina http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-ways-to-clone-and-copy-your-hard-drive/#comment-436388 Tina Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:42:54 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=10113#comment-436388 Hello ozzy, please resubmit your question to MakeUseOf Answers. A link is at the top of the page. Hello ozzy,
please resubmit your question to MakeUseOf Answers. A link is at the top of the page.

]]> By: ozzy http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-ways-to-clone-and-copy-your-hard-drive/#comment-436383 ozzy Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:31:43 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=10113#comment-436383 I have Western Digital USB External Hard Drive Cap 1000GB I begin noticing the problems after my son drop it while I was using it After that I was not being able to have access from my computer, but windows does recognize it on the device manager. I need to rescue my files 3 yrs of familiy fotos and videos. I tried to see maybe it would work on my laptop but I get 2 messages, one is: "Device I/O error" and the other is "Drive not formatted", its asking me to format the drive I don't want to do that. Can anybody help, Plese any suggestions. I have Western Digital USB External Hard Drive Cap 1000GB I begin noticing the problems after my son drop it while I was using it After that I was not being able to have access from my computer, but windows does recognize it on the device manager. I need to rescue my files 3 yrs of familiy fotos and videos. I tried to see maybe it would work on my laptop but I get 2 messages, one is: “Device I/O error” and the other is “Drive not formatted”, its asking me to format the drive I don’t want to do that. Can anybody help, Plese any suggestions.

]]> By: mcmail99 http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-ways-to-clone-and-copy-your-hard-drive/#comment-434314 mcmail99 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:17:25 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=10113#comment-434314 why didn't anyone had commented on the famous Paragon Drive Back Up suite? I have it but i havent tried it yet. pls comment ty! why didn’t anyone had commented on the famous Paragon Drive Back Up suite? I have it but i havent tried it yet. pls comment ty!

]]> By: Pablo http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-ways-to-clone-and-copy-your-hard-drive/#comment-429706 Pablo Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:31:43 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=10113#comment-429706 I used the dd tool above and it worked just fine, but there is a problem: My removable USB drive was 1 Therabite in size; after the cloning, is now the same size of the smaller one that I tried to copy, which is 152 GB. I need to run the command again with the right syntax.. any help?? I used the dd tool above and it worked just fine, but there is a problem: My removable USB drive was 1 Therabite in size; after the cloning, is now the same size of the smaller one that I tried to copy, which is 152 GB. I need to run the command again with the right syntax.. any help??

]]> By: Asanga http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-ways-to-clone-and-copy-your-hard-drive/#comment-429503 Asanga Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:51:44 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=10113#comment-429503 I use Macrium Reflect Free Edition. Works great for me. Very easy to use. I use Macrium Reflect Free Edition. Works great for me. Very easy to use.

]]> By: Rob http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-ways-to-clone-and-copy-your-hard-drive/#comment-427917 Rob Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:37:16 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=10113#comment-427917 You don't always get what you pay for either. I've used Acronis True Image for a few years, and most of the time it works great. Here are the two problems I have: 1) loading an image from a network share is more of a chore than it should be. The software likes to query the whole domain instead of using just the path I specify; which wastes a lot of time. 2) Support for RAID comtrollers and SATA drives is hit or miss. When a new model of computer comes out it may of may not work, requiring you to buy a newer version of Acronis to get support for the new hardware. They should use universal drivers to prevent this. You don’t always get what you pay for either. I’ve used Acronis True Image for a few years, and most of the time it works great. Here are the two problems I have: 1) loading an image from a network share is more of a chore than it should be. The software likes to query the whole domain instead of using just the path I specify; which wastes a lot of time. 2) Support for RAID comtrollers and SATA drives is hit or miss. When a new model of computer comes out it may of may not work, requiring you to buy a newer version of Acronis to get support for the new hardware. They should use universal drivers to prevent this.

]]> By: Lily http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-ways-to-clone-and-copy-your-hard-drive/#comment-420864 Lily Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:13:45 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=10113#comment-420864 Apart from the above freeware, there is another one which can help you to copy drive but also resize the disk, format disk, convert disk and so on. http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm Apart from the above freeware, there is another one which can help you to copy drive but also resize the disk, format disk, convert disk and so on.

http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm

]]> By: schmac http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-ways-to-clone-and-copy-your-hard-drive/#comment-418052 schmac Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:30:17 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=10113#comment-418052 but what if you had a hackintosh running, you wanted an image of your active os drive (equivalent of C: on pc) on a non hfs+ drive, you do not want to be forced to use a larger drive but just copy the USED space of the existing hackmac drive, and have a 10-15gb file that can then be imaged back to any (ANY) other drive making it hfs+ (because it was mirrored from a hfs+), which you can just attach to your pc and boot from it into osx and you want to do all that from an active partition and place the image on a ANY available usb drive. chew on that... but what if you had a hackintosh running, you wanted an image of your active os drive (equivalent of C: on pc) on a non hfs+ drive, you do not want to be forced to use a larger drive but just copy the USED space of the existing hackmac drive, and have a 10-15gb file that can then be imaged back to any (ANY) other drive making it hfs+ (because it was mirrored from a hfs+), which you can just attach to your pc and boot from it into osx and you want to do all that from an active partition and place the image on a ANY available usb drive. chew on that…

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