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Is there any way to copy a physical hard drive to a virtual drive for use in Vmware Workstation?
Started by Nick Berardi on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
This works great - just like if you wanted to copy a drive from one physical... .
Virtual drive to an existing virtual machine and use Ghost or Acronis (or any other drive imaging software) to image the physical disk to the empty VM disk.
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I am evaluating drivesnapshot (www.drivesnapshot.de) for backing up and restoring disk images for Vista PCs. I have drivesnapshot backups working on 2 Vista PCs, but on the x64 PC, I cannot get a boot disk working that allows me to see/access the hard...
Started by Dennis on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
It looks like most of these disk image multiple SATA disk....
Then, I can run snapshot.exe from the boot disk, or even the drivers for it before you will see it as a mounted drive.
Use a boot disk and see the hard disk.
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I've got a 80Gb hard disk and I want to transfer the system to another 500Gb hd (without to reinstall windows).
What the easy and free way to transfer the system to another hd?
Started by Click Ok on
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by 7 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
They usually have a free tool that can be faster if you put the two hard ....
Personally, I think the best tool for this is Acronis Disk Director , however it is not free looking on the site of the company whose hard drive you bought.
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Windows backup by Imaging
Which is the Best hard disk imaging software? Please Provide its pros and cons also.
Started by Shail on
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by 8 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Among the lesser known expensive) is worth mentioning.
My favorite is Norton Ghost .I did not use but lots of pros propose Acronis True Image as an alternative to Norton Ghost .I have not seen any negativeness while using Ghost.
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I am trying to convert a physical server to a virtual one, I know that there are tools for this, but they either cost alot or have extreme requirements.
I have tried to you Norton Ghost to make a copy of the disk, then restore that copy inside a VM. I...
Started by BLAKE on
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by 7 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
Tried booting your VM to a 2003 setup disk and running a repair setup? Every single P2V I've done has can take a hot snapshot of the system to an external disk, then booting from their recovery CD, you disk driver (VMWare's is called....
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The "official" way to upgrade the primary hard disk of a Windows machine seems to be to install the new drive, install windows, install backup software, then do a restore from backup of the previous system.
For home use and for the sake of doing it faster...
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
Clonezilla should do it I guess though....
If you don't like TrueImage, you can try other disk-cloning software like GhostUse your favourite imaging software like Ghost Enterprise Suite or whatnot, boot it from a disc or something.
New drive.
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My laptop running Windows 7 Ultimate (non OEM) died on me today and it has tonnes of stuff on it - my projects, Visual Studio and office installations, etc. etc.
I am getting a new laptop from somewhere and was wondering if I could just unplug the hard...
Started by saurabhj on
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by 7 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Serial numbers and need to recuperate them, you can put the disk in the new machine and do a Safe reboot, recuperate the serials, then restore the new disk (the old disk can stay as a 2nd disk take a Ghost image of ....
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I worked on a computer for a family member and got them a larger hard drive, going from 60GB to 320GB. I used Acronis True Image to copy the disk, and since I didn't have a USB enclosure for the bare drive I backed up the information in a .tib file to...
Started by Feanor on
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by 10 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
There should be option during restore which will allow disk, you can try ....
Wipe and test the disk with special tools from the brand of the hard disk, that will ensure that you partition table was copied from old drive also.
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The 60GB drive in my wife's laptop is full, I cannot reduce the content. I am trying to change the drive to one of 160GB by installing the new drive, fitting the old drive in an external USB caddy, and ghosting by running Symantec Ghost from a CD.
I use...
Started by penneck on
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by 5 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at plus):
I ran the disk-to-disk copy as before, but without adjusting the size of the twoOne way round the problem....
The old disk shows 5 Ghost 11.5.
From Partition Magic 8 with the old hard disk fitted to compare results.
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I have Windows XP Prof installed on a Truecrypt protected parition (using TrueCrypt boot authentication). This is the only partition on that drive.
I'm about to get a new harddrive and need to migrate my Windows XP installation to the new drive. To make...
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Of course you would have to make a new recovery disk.
Probably imaging tools), then encrypt the new drive.
If true crypt will allow, use an imaging program to make a disk image and "ghost" it.
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