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Clone Hard Drive Windows 7 on Tablet

by byOlaf Sep 26, 2011 4:52AM PDT

Hi, I am seeking a step-by-step on cloning a hard drive with operating system and all.

Details: I have a couple of tablet pc's (Motion LE1700). One is in perfect shape (1), the other (2) has a physical problem with the USB ports. I have installed and configured W7 on 1. I can't do the same on 2 because I can't connect to it. I would like to make a copy of the hard drive on 1, take the hard drive out, replace it with 2's HD, copy that back, and then replace both drives.

Can someone guide me in this process? What program do I use to clone the drive, what steps should I take, what should I look out for? The drives are 64G SSD's and I have a 500G external USB HD for the transferring. I don't want to just reinstall everything because it's a PITA, I want to copy the good drive to the other one.
Thanks!
-Olaf

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You wrote the guide.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Sep 26, 2011 4:56AM PDT

You have the guide in your post. I can only guess you need some software to clone the drive.

Why not Acronis?
Bob

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Thanks, I'll check out acronis.
by byOlaf Sep 26, 2011 7:22AM PDT

I guess I was just trying to confirm these were the right steps, and make sure there wasn't some tricky thing I didn't know. Like there usually is when trying to do something with Windows. I will look into Acronis now, thanks for the tip.

I would still appreciate it if someone who had done this would let me know of any pitfalls that I may encounter. I'm just nervous about doing something like this since it takes me so long to set up the thing in the first place.
-Olaf

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The reason I noted Acronis over my usual Clonezilla is
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Sep 26, 2011 7:25AM PDT

Because Acronis will handle any issue with the source and destination drives differing in size. With Clonezilla the target drive must be same or larger.

Bob

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