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| Thread ID: 138750 | 2015-01-18 21:19:00 | Hardware Cloning with USB 3.0 dock | dugimodo (138) | Press F1 |
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| 1392284 | 2015-01-18 21:19:00 | I have one of these www.pbtech.co.nz But it comes with very little documentation and the website isn't any better. Has anyone used the clone feature on one of these? What I'm wondering is will it clone to a larger drive or does it need to be the same and which drive goes where? My work laptop has a faulty hdd and I'd like to clone it but the replacement is a 320G and the original is a 160G and if I screw up the original I'm out of commission for work. I can of course use imaging software on another PC to do it, just seems like the clone feature of the dock would be perfect. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1392285 | 2015-01-18 21:43:00 | Never used one, but according the the manual, The original Drive goes in slot1, the one receiving goes in slot 2. As for sizing, the receiving has to be the same size or larger than the original: #6 To successfully use the clone function, the capacity of target hard drive must be larger or equal to the source drive. Please note the source data can not be cloned to a drive with smaller capacity. The full manual, is www.welland.com.tw Its the bottom left ME-603S under QIG ( Quick Installation Guide - its a pdf) :2cents: You have made a interesting statement if I screw up the original I'm out of commission for work. Go on the safety side, use what you KNOW will work first, experiment on something that doesn't matter if it screws up. ANYONE can say on here -- yeah it'll work, BUT if something goes pear shaped are they going to compensate you ? (I think we both know the answer to that) ;) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1392286 | 2015-01-18 22:10:00 | Thanks Wainui, found that QIG file myself eventually. Not the most obvious thing in the world but at least they do have it available. Seems like as long as I put the drive in slot 1 it should be safe enough. When you say what I know will work - well I know using cloning software I won't hurt the source but as to it working I've had very hit and miss results with cloning software. Often the clone needs a repair to boot and sometimes even then takes me several tries with different software to make it go. On the plus side it's XP so any cloning software around should handle such an ancient OS just fine. I paid for Active@ thinking it was a good choice and it's let me down several times now, acronis sometimes works but often doesn't, Easus has worked for me but didn't align the SSD partition correctly requiring a fix afterwards. Of course in the past I have not been simply replacing a faulty hdd, my normal use for cloning is for an upgrade and the last few times have all been from HDD to SSD which it seems is a little problematic at times. This time it's an official replacement drive direct from Dell and is still a mechanical hdd just larger. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1392287 | 2015-01-18 22:38:00 | Only problems I usually have with Cloning is if the drive has bad sectors, most cloning software cant handle it, and it comes to a grinding halt . :( With Imaging unless there are lots of bad sectors the image will more often work than fail . Theres 2 main imaging programs I use these days, Active@ and AOMEI Backupper . Had a HUGE problem a while back when a failing drive wouldn't clone OR image with all the other I have including Shadow protect ( in fact Sp and all the Linux options didn't even see the drive) -- got it in the end with a different Cloning/Imaging software, customer paid for it so it was sweet . |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1392288 | 2015-01-18 23:51:00 | I have use Acronis for cloning drives which had bad sectors. I normally start the cloning process and once a bad sector is encountered, a warning pops up asking what to do, I always choose ignore bad sectors and tick the box to choose ignore for all other bad sectors. This way I have been able to recover most data from bad drives. | ronyville (10611) | ||
| 1392289 | 2015-01-19 00:19:00 | Hmm, well the work laptop has bad sectors which is why it's being replaced, but they are marked bad and have no data in them. Do you think it will clone? They are likely to put a standard company image on it if not which may or may not cause me grief. I've been backing up to an SD card in anticipation or replacement or catastrophic failure. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1392290 | 2015-01-19 01:18:00 | Will it Clone ?? Who knows, its 50/50. All you can do it try it and see. With some imaging software you can tell it to ignore bad sectors( As ron mentioned) depending on how bad it is will depend on what happens. I know Active@ has the option to do a sector by sector image in cases like this, BUT it will take the whole drive, not just the used portion. |
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