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Answer» This is a recommendation. Clone from laptop hard drive to anther lap top hard drive in external enclosure?All new HP laptop shave the e-SATA connector. (But if you find one that does not, don't buy it.)How to copy Laptop Hard Drive http://www.ehow.com/how_4898255_clone-la ... Backup software,SYSTEM settings and files,,, For your copy of Windows, programs,system settings and files to include a copy of the image,you can use the system.The system's image following the original programs,settings and files are stored in a separate location from.You have your entire computer's hard disk crashes or your computer's contents can be used to RESTORE the files.Quote from: Allan on July 07, 2011, 05:51:59 AM Clearly the above post has nothing to do with cloning anything.Right. And XCOPY can not even create a bookable disk for you. A true clone program has to copy even the files that are never seen by the user. Including the contents of the MBR and other system level data and code. If you search for a program to backup everything, include the word 'Clone' in the keywords. Which would find this: http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/ It is more than a backup. Like Acronis, it makes a true copy of the drive. The personal version if now free. BTW, Acronis is free for 30 days. http://download.cnet.com/Acronis-True-Image-Home/3000-2242_4-10168093.htmlAcronis is also free with the purchase of a new Seagate HDD... But you can get it still from the Seagate site...even WITHOUT purchase... My Free choice is Macrium Reflect.Quote from: patio on July 07, 2011, 02:05:53 PM Acronis is also free with the purchase of a new Seagate HDD...At least one of the drives must be Seagate in order for that to work, doesn't it? I believe the same applies to the free Acronis product from Western Digital. These versions of Acronis are intended for purchasers of new hard drives to have a tool to clone an old drive to a new one of a specific brand. What possible difference would it make what brand the hd is?As you know, Acronis is normally a free product. So, obviously, the hard drive makers aren't going be giving the standard Acronis software away for free for anyone to use. So, I believe the versions of Acronis issued by Seagate, Western Digital, etc. are designed to detect the brand of the hard drive being used and only work with that make drive. Otherwise, what prevents anyone from grabbing a free standard of software that's not intended to be free to everyone? I understood what you were saying soybean, i just can't see how the brand of drive would in any way effect how Acronis operates. I certainly could be wrong, but I'd love for someone to explain the process to me if I am.Is this and old story? Quote One of the best HDD utilities is freeWell, I'd still like to know how...........I really don't for sure how it works but I presume it's a matter of the software recognizing the brand, and perhaps model, of hard drive. I see it in the same vein as system reporting tools such as Belarc Advisor and Everest Home Edition being able to report the brand hard drive, processor, and other components. And, I see it in the same vein as system monitoring tools such as SpeedFan and CPUID, where the software detects certain hardware sensors. So, in the case of hard-drive-maker-branded versions of Acronis, hardware recognition is the basis upon which the modified version only works with a particular brand of hard drive. Acronis licenses the software to the HD manufacturers. The software isn't changed for each manufacturer. Basically, Acronis "doesn't care" that these users are getting Acronis for free, because the HD manufacturers already paid Acronis so they could include the software with the drives. Also, the tools are usually far less capable than the commercial offerings; much like how Windows XP's disk defragmentor is really a relabelled and stripped down copy of "Executive Software Diskeeper". They are usually a version of the software's "personal" or "home" variants. EDIT: however, soybean is right, if you don't have one of appropriate drives installed (like a Maxtor drive when trying to run MaxBlast) the program states as such and won't run.Quote from: BC_Programmer on July 07, 2011, 03:24:50 PM Acronis licenses the software to the HD manufacturers. The software isn't changed for each manufacturer.So it works fine regardless of the drive, yes?Quote from: Allan on July 07, 2011, 03:33:00 PM So it works fine regardless of the drive, yes?No, just did more searching and it looks like for the most part they are specific to each brand, as Soybean noted. Quote from: Allan on July 07, 2011, 03:33:00 PM So it works fine regardless of the drive, yes? I got a bundled copy of the old Norton Ghost when I bought a hard drive and it has worked with drives from 3 different makers apart from the one it came with. |
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