wozzzzza Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 im trying to clone a hdd to a larger one as ive run out of room on it, its not the OS drive just a slave drive. ive tried macrium reflect and it jsut fails, ive tried minitool partition wizard and it fails, ove tried one other one i cant remember and it failed as well. anyone got any good ones? probably need to be a bootable one and not clone it in windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayDee Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 Try this one https://www.easeus.com/backup-software/tb-free.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiNAN Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 did you try Ghost ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wozzzzza Posted September 8, 2019 Author Share Posted September 8, 2019 52 minutes ago, SiNAN said: did you try Ghost ? havent heard of that for many years, used to use it all the time 10 years ago, will look into it. 59 minutes ago, JayDee said: Try this one https://www.easeus.com/backup-software/tb-free.html didnt work, failed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spalsh_smart Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 Hi wozzzzza, I've used this tool many times to clone my HDD to another HDDs and SSDs. AOMEI Backupper https://www.backup-utility.com/ Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edgar.Elooo Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 Paragon HD Manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlston Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 Odd that all cloners are failing. Sounds like there may be a problem with one or both drives that none of the cloners can handle. Get any error messages when the cloning fails? May be worth running a disk check utility on the old drive. If all fails (excuse the pun), given that you’re cloning a slave drive, drag and drop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 1 hour ago, Karlston said: Odd that all cloners are failing. Sounds like there may be a problem with one or both drives that none of the cloners can handle. Get any error messages when the cloning fails? May be worth running a disk check utility on the old drive. If all fails (excuse the pun), given that you’re cloning a slave drive, drag and drop? Agreed. @wozzzzza: You might also want to try TeraCopy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankl1n Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 5 hours ago, wozzzzza said: macrium reflect and it jsut fails, ive tried minitool partition wizard and it fails, ove tried one other one i cant remember and it failed as well. when you say it fails do you mean that the clone program just doesnt finish up, it justs sits there and does not progress also not giving error msg? If so prolly got bad sectors on HDD, read errors most times will behave like this when trying to clone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PriSim Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 MiniTool Partition Wizard Cloned many hdd's , with out any error. Plus also migrated win 10 flawlessly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stig Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 I'd be looking at why you are getting failures rather than the software. The most common reason is a VSS issue. There are standalone tools to repair VSS, but I reckon the simplest way is to use Macrium Reflect's built-in VSS Repair Tool via Other Tasks > Fix VSS Problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiNAN Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 9 hours ago, wozzzzza said: havent heard of that for many years, used to use it all the time 10 years ago, will look into it. you only need this file GIF.zip You can use it with any WinPE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wozzzzza Posted September 8, 2019 Author Share Posted September 8, 2019 6 hours ago, frankl1n said: when you say it fails do you mean that the clone program just doesnt finish up, it justs sits there and does not progress also not giving error msg? If so prolly got bad sectors on HDD, read errors most times will behave like this when trying to clone. fails out at the beginning before it even reaches 1% 8 hours ago, Karlston said: Get any error messages when the cloning fails? May be worth running a disk check utility on the old drive. i have run a chkdsk on both drives and all passed without a single error. 11 hours ago, SiNAN said: did you try Ghost ? had a look at ghost again as i have used that 10+ years ago all the time without fail, created a bootdisc and set it going, it finished in about 10 hours and worked perfectly. thanks for the help everyone, but got it all going in the end with the ghost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eurobyn Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 You could use acronis true image. to make image or to clone the drive. or if you only want to copy data you can use fastcopy homepage : Fast copy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlston Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 A good example of nsane members helping each other. Well done all! Topic marked as solved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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