Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Disk clone related

MBR VS GPT (Focus on Difference and How to Convert Safely)
In conclusion, in our opinion, GPT is better.
MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition [can] convert the disk style between MBR and GPT.

How to Clone MBR Disk to GPT Disk/SSD
your old hard drive is an MBR partitioned boot disk and your new HDD or SSD is GPT partitioned disk, in this case, you will be required to clone MBR disk to GPT disk or SSD. It is a little bit difficult to manage the job as a bootable issue will happen in high chances if you simply clone MBR HDD to HDD or SSD with GPT partition table. Do remember to convert the GPT to MBR first and start the cloning process.

HDD Raw Copy Tool
Examples of possible uses:
Data recovery: make a copy of the damaged drive to attempt recovery on the copy
Data recovery: copy a damaged hard drive and skip bad sectors
Migration: completely migrate from one hard drive to another
Ultimate backup: Make an exact copy of the hard drive for future use
Backup: create an image of a USB flash stick and copy/restore at any moment
Software QA engineers: restore your OS hard drives at any moment from a compressed image
Duplicate/Clone/Save full image of any type of media!

ORICO: Two same capacity drives, but can not start Clone (see FAQ)

If two driver are some capacity but different brands, the clone may can not start to process.
Different manufacturer may use different capacity caculation method,  so maybe they actually not equal with each other.

Related
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SSD partitioning- is reserve space necessary
Bottom line, you should be able to go for a partition size that uses all "available" space presented to your system.
most SSDs are overprovisioned internally. Your 256GB SSD likely has something like 256+16GB of actual space in it. The SSD controller hides this from the OS, but it will internally use that extra room when needed.

Bad Sector Repair in Windows 10 (3 Ways Included)
Self experience: chkdsk gives more comprehensive result than GUI tool

4 Portable Tools to Make a Full Image Backup of USB Drives
Q: Can we mount resulted image file ?
A:

FOG is a Linux-based, free and open source computer imaging solution for various versions of Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 8/8.1, 10), Linux and Mac OS X. It ties together a few open source tools with a PHP-based web interface. FOG doesn't use any boot disks, or CDs; everything is done via TFTP and PXE. Your PCs boot via PXE and automatically downloads a small linux client doing all the hard work of imaging your machine

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