I think EaseUS will be my cloning tool of choice. It even
allows me to re-allocate the partition sizes BEFORE I do the
clone, if I want.

In this screenshot, I simply dragged the C partion boundary to
about 64GB (from its original 35GB), and it automatically
"borrows" from the unused H partition and resizes that
accordingly.

https://susepaste.org/12138178

So, it would seem that I could FIRST simply clone the hdd to
ssd as-is, install the ssd into the pc, boot, and THEN run
EaseUS to resize the partitions after that!


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To: August Abolins
Re: multi-partition hdd to larger ssd
By: August Abolins to All on Sun Jan 08 2023 02:24 pm

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I think EaseUS will be my cloning tool of choice. It even
allows me to re-allocate the partition sizes BEFORE I do the
clone, if I want.

you should have a clone tool by the mfg on their website.
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you should have a clone tool by the mfg on their website.

They don't have one that runs on XP!

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To: August Abolins
Re: multi-partition hdd to larger ssd
By: August Abolins to Jas Hud on Sun Jan 08 2023 07:20 pm

From Newsgroup: Micronet.MIN_COMP

you should have a clone tool by the mfg on their website.

They don't have one that runs on XP!

dont run xp.
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I think EaseUS will be my cloning tool of choice. It even
allows me to re-allocate the partition sizes BEFORE I do the
clone, if I want.

That program is really good and I have used it many times.

I ran into an issue I never experienced in the past. I was growing a large NTFS partition on one of my arrays. It was going from 62TB to 98TB. I had to change the cluster size on the NTFS partition to 32KB in order to do that.

EaseUS will automatically do that, or you can also select it as an option to just change the default cluster size. The one thing to keep in mind however, is this takes A LONG TIME to complete. With a partition that large, probably weeks.

It ended up being faster for me to re-create the partition from scratch and re-copy everything.

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you should have a clone tool by the mfg on their website.

They don't have one that runs on XP!

dont run xp.

I suppose I could boot with a live-CD (linux) and use one of
the cloning tools from that environment.

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On 09 Jan 23 08:13:00, August Abolins said the following to Jas Hud:

I suppose I could boot with a live-CD (linux) and use one of
the cloning tools from that environment.

I use Drive Snapshot... runs on anything from NT to 10 Enterprise.

In use here in a scripted-setup for years... its Shareware but worth the 89 Euro.

Nick

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Hello Nick!

I use Drive Snapshot... runs on anything from NT to 10 Enterprise.

In use here in a scripted-setup for years... its Shareware but worth the 89 Euro.

Thx for the tip. Appreciated. An automated backup (if I had a
NAS) would be a pleasure to implement.

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On 09 Jan 23 13:48:00, August Abolins said the following to Nick Andre:

I use Drive Snapshot... runs on anything from NT to 10 Enterprise.

In use here in a scripted-setup for years... its Shareware but worth t 89 Euro.

Thx for the tip. Appreciated. An automated backup (if I had a
NAS) would be a pleasure to implement.

I wrote a script which automates Drive Snapshot to do a full backup on Friday nights with differentials the other days of the week.

Before the first round of imaging starts on Friday night, I swap the USB external drive and keep that week's set off-site, so theres always a rotation of backups and safeguard against everything if "shit happens".

The images can be restored to different hardware, drive sizes etc, can be restored to physical or virtual hardware, you name it.

Drive Snapshot encrypts the backups as well...

Nick

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August Abolins wrote to Jas Hud <=-

I suppose I could boot with a live-CD (linux) and use one of
the cloning tools from that environment.

...that's what Clonezilla is...

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Before the first round of imaging starts on Friday night, I swap the USB external drive and keep that week's set off-site, so theres always a rotation of backups and safeguard against everything if "shit happens".

The images can be restored to different hardware, drive sizes etc, can be restored to physical or virtual hardware, you name it.

Having those options is super important (restore to different hardware, drive sizes, physical/virtual).

I remember the first time I tried a restore to different hardware (like radically different hardware) using Symatec System Recovery long ago. I was shocked it all worked.

The most radical restore that I can remember doing was restoring a domain controller image that was originally on a workstation to a server. Very different hardware, controller, CPU, everything was different. It took a while, but worked and was super impressed. That saved a ton of time.

- Mark

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