Would this clone everything stored on the hard drive including OS, data and apps?
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Yes, everything would be copied ... as long as the drive you are copying to is the same size or larger than your original
2112568
Yes, but not with the software since it is only for cloning an hdd. When you connect the drive to your pc with the cable provided you can easily access all the info or wipe it
634579
Yes, provided the SSD has as much space as you need. I moved the data folders (documents, pictures, music, etc.) onto a standard hard drive, then cloned just the operating system and most-used programs onto the SSD. That gives fast boot and response from the SSD, but cheaper bulk storage on the standard hard drive.
2276887
You can certainly copy it. I do not use automated backup routines (except for C: drive) so cannot comment on these.
1551810
Yes, when I cloned my old drive to the new one everything was exactly as it was on the original and everything worked fine.I did have to clone each partition separately because my system had a recovery partition which will not copy correctly if you clone the whole drive. I used sector by sector for the recovery partition and regular clone for the main OS partition and all worked.
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I would say Yes, but as soon as you have it installed be sure to format the drive. Also, be sure that you have ALL your files backed up, and get ready for a long process of updating the operating system, and your security software, only after that can you reinstall your programs and finally after that you can restore your files. I hope you have tremendous amount of patience. Good luck
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Yes, it essentially turns the new drive into the old one. I did this on a Acer netbook and it worked fine after swapping to the cloned drive.
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Unfortunately, no it doesn't. It's just a barebone hard drive. You will have to do a new install of windows or get a cloning/migration software kit. Or your other option is to buy a Solid State Drive kit that comes with the cloning/migration software.
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Sort of... you can swap it out yes.... if you just want to copy data you can just hook both up and copy the data using Windows. If you want to copy over programs or an operating system its possible but its much more complex and it sounds like you would need assistance from someone with a deeper computer background.
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I didn't see any options for that. You boot from the cd/dvd and clone the drive. I suppose that you could deinstall the programs you don't want afterwards. HTH
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1Chicago, the answer is yes, with this you can clone any hard drive, also SSD it will copy a HDD or SSD complete with verification to another drive. Limeyde
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It depends in which software that you use, I believe there is some paid software that can clone only the OS but as always it is recommended to just reinstall straight onto the SSD
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No, it is a bare drive. I used a usb2IDE appliance and Clonezilla, a free OpenSource download.
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Fantastic question! Unfortunately, I don't know. I haven't tried. I think that cloning a software encrypted drive should working without any issue at all since the dock doesn't mount the drive and can do a forensic duplication, it should be a slam dunk. It's drives with hardware encryption, support built into the device, that I don't know what to expect from. In that case, I suspect that it would clone the sectors but I don't expect that the data would ever be readable from the destination device. That said, I don't have first hand experience with either config. I'm 99% sure the software encryption clone would work and the data would still be accessible as long as you have access to the decryption key. I wish I had a more certain answer.
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you can copy files, I don't know if that's the sort of duplication you're looking for.
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I did not try to clone a active hardrive like your question but you can try. However, you can use a clone from Samsung SSD drive software to clone your active harddrive, I what I did with my laptop
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Yes. The hard drive holds all the data pertaining to the operating system; that information is not on the motherboard. A cloned drive will keep the product key and the rest of your settings. If you plan on using both drives on different computers I have to say two things:1) If your key only works for one computer, then running both is technically illegal (just have to say that)2) The System ID and other networking info will be copied and will cause interference, so you should change the PC name and run a random SysID changer.