Win 7 Clone

On Sun, 02 Feb 2014 08:43:55 -0800, OldGuy wrote:


Suggestions please.


This is an outstanding alternative!

http://www.todo-backup.com/products/...p-software.htm

On 2/2/2014 8:35 PM, OldGuy wrote:
On 2/2/2014 11:43 AM, OldGuy wrote:

Download the suggested cloning software from Samsung ... it works
perfectly

Read Samsung's instructions that came with the drive.

The SSD came with a DVD with software but it is not bootable.
I explored it installed on my desktop PC and found nothing helpful.
Is there some other Samsung sw that can make a bootable CD/DVD?
Remember that I have not yet started Win 7 on this noew PC as I am
trying to make a pristine HDD to SDD the remove the HD and use the SSD
in the laptop.



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Google: samsung cloning software ssd
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http://www.samsung.com/global/busine...downloads.html

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On 2/2/2014 10:43 AM, OldGuy wrote:

Paragon has free software for personal use that will do the job.

Backup & Recovery Free Edition
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/br-free/

Partition Manager 2014 Free
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/pm-express/

You can also download Acronis and use it as a trial version and that
will do the job too.

I download the Paragon backup and recovery and cannot find where to
create a bootable recover disk. Even looking at the help file
on-line does not clearly say how to do it just that something that
paragon has can do that.

Sounds like the free versions don't have the CD/Flash option. I remember
it will ask you during the install if you want to create one. I also
seem to recall you can do that later too.

So if it can resize the 1T partition or clone to a smaller partition,
how do I do that with paragon?

Yes, you can resize the partition with Partition Manager. But what would
make this super easy is if you could connect both drives to the desktop
machine. If you have an extra adapter, you could use XXClone (the free
version) to do everything in one step.

XXClone v2.04.0
http://www.xxclone.com/index.htm

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Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz - 4GB - Windows XP SP2

On 2/02/2014, OldGuy posted:
I still am not clear on what MRF created image is.

There was a description of "image" posted recently, but since I can't
recall where, I'll post one now :-)

An image is a file which contains a (usually, not always) compressed
collection of everything on the original partition, including such
niceties as the boot sector. It may also be encrypted, and it is
generally in a proprietary format. There are also generic formats that
are used, such as vhd, which may have started out as some company's
proprietary format.

But the image is just a file on a disk, it is not a disk, and so it is
not bootable or anything related to what a disk is.

To restore, what the software does is expand that file into the exact
format and structure of the original drive and copy it essentially bit
by bit to the destination drive.

There is also a function in the original program to mount the image as
a virtual drive. This kind of software also exists for some of the
generic formats such as vhd files and such. This software just displays
the file contents of such a disk in a format accessible to programs
like Windows Explorer. I don't think the boot sectors and such would be
visible, but I've never examined that idea, so that remark is
speculation.

The virtual drive is handy when you want to restore a file or two, or
if you have differential backups, an earlier version of a file. Or if
you just want to look :-)

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)