• Welcome to TechPowerUp Forums, Guest! Please check out our forum guidelines for info related to our community.

How to clone a hard drive?

OrbitzXT

New Member
Joined
Mar 22, 2007
Messages
1,969 (0.32/day)
Location
New York City
System Name AX-01
Processor Intel Core i5-2500K @3.7 GHz
Motherboard ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3
Cooling Zalman 9700
Memory Kingston HyperX T1 Series 8GB DDR3 1600 MHZ
Video Card(s) GTX 590
Storage Intel X25-M
Display(s) 42" Samsung LED HDTV
Case Antec Twelve Hundred
Audio Device(s) HT | OMEGA STRIKER 7.1
Power Supply Kingwin 1000W
Software Windows 7 64-Bit
T

twilyth

Guest
I just did a clone of a boot drive to a different system (different m/b, cpu) and Acronis worked pretty well. I did get the dreaded bootmgr not found message, but that was easily fixed.
 

OrbitzXT

New Member
Joined
Mar 22, 2007
Messages
1,969 (0.32/day)
Location
New York City
System Name AX-01
Processor Intel Core i5-2500K @3.7 GHz
Motherboard ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3
Cooling Zalman 9700
Memory Kingston HyperX T1 Series 8GB DDR3 1600 MHZ
Video Card(s) GTX 590
Storage Intel X25-M
Display(s) 42" Samsung LED HDTV
Case Antec Twelve Hundred
Audio Device(s) HT | OMEGA STRIKER 7.1
Power Supply Kingwin 1000W
Software Windows 7 64-Bit
My first attempt at cloning was a success using the link in my previous post. No issues at all. I do have a question though. I bought 40 GB SSDs and didn't realize that wasn't enough capacity for 2 of the 3 PCs. I was thinking of doing my bosses PC today using both in a RAID 0 configuration, that way I have enough capacity and then I'll just order 1 60 GB which should be enough for the PC I use here. The question is, is there anything I need to do differently when cloning to a raid array? Or do I just have to have the array set up and treat it as if it was a lone hard drive?
 
Top