Tydda Jon - Lonza Slough
jon.tydda at lonza.com
Tue Jul 29 02:34:27 CDT 2014
I went with Backupper from Aomei eventually (http://www.backup-utility.com/download.html). It cloned the drive for me, resized the partitions (I went from a 1tb 5400rpm HDD to a 256gb Crucial M550 SSD), and copied everything across. Only took about an hour all told. The hard part was getting the laptop to recognise the new drive, but eventually I found a web page with the following useful information: Boot windows 8 CD, select language, and on the screen where says "Install now", select "Repair my computer" at the bottom left corner. Open "Troubleshoot", and "Advanced options". In advanced options menu select "Command prompt", and there type: BOOTREC /FIXBOOT BOOTREC /FIXMBR BOOTREC /REBUILDBCD One of those should work. And one of them did. I don't know which one, or what each command does, but I was able to boot from the new drive when I plugged it in next. The performance gain is incredible. The laptop (1 year old HP Pavilion G7, i5, 6gb RAM) went from taking 4 minutes 31 seconds from pressing the power button to Vipre loading up to 31 seconds. It shuts down in 3 seconds now, instead of the former 1 minute plus. I ran a MalwareBytes scan which took 6 minutes 47 (was previously over an hour), and a deep Vipre Scan which took 26:07 (previously over 2 hours). I can't recommend upgrading your old HDD to an SSD enough! Jon -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2014 8:34 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Hard drive cloning Hi Lambert: Then there is the totally free partition manager called gparted and it also allows you, in addition, to resize dynamic volumes as required: http://gparted.org. It also runs on all platforms and can modify most (all) file systems. If you wish to clone an Windows drive, I would suggest DriveXML: https://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm and for anything else including Windows there is Clonezilla: http://clonezilla.org Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lambert Heenan" <Lambert.Heenan at aig.com> To: "Dba-Tech (dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com)" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 7:36:30 AM Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Hard drive cloning Totally free and totally cool... http://www.easeus.com/partition-manager/ Lambert -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tydda Jon - Lonza Slough Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 9:36 AM To: Dba-Tech (dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com) Subject: [dba-Tech] Hard drive cloning Hi all I'm thinking of replacing the very slow (5400rpm) 1tb hard drive in my laptop with a much faster SSD, sacrificing some storage space (that I don't really use anyway). I can do the mechanical part no problem, but how do I move the Windows 8.1 installation from one drive to another without breaking anything? Last time I did this was about 7 years ago, and I used Norton Ghost to make a backup to another hard drive, which I then swapped out. What software should I use now? Jon ________________________________ This communication and its attachments, if any, may contain confidential and privileged information the use of which by other persons or entities than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you receive this transmission in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the material from your system. _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com ________________________________ This communication and its attachments, if any, may contain confidential and privileged information the use of which by other persons or entities than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you receive this transmission in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the material from your system.