professa X Posted November 7, 2015 Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 (edited) question: is it possible to clone from an active hdd to another hdd. i want ro clone my laptops c drive while it in use. i dont got a desktop and im using a optical bay caddy for my second hdd. i am running windows 10. i did clone it and it booted fine. almost everything was functioning. the only problem was tha the windows apps didnt work: edge, store, search/cortana, startmenu. so could this have occured due to trying to clone while the source drive was in use? thanx in advance Edited November 14, 2015 by professa X Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smileyyakadoo Posted November 7, 2015 Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 (edited) question: is it possible to clone from an active hdd to another hdd. What Cloning program did you use? bc they should be working fine. I've used Norton Ghost, Macrium Reflect, and some other program I can't think of right now but works. Edited November 7, 2015 by Smileyyakadoo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moodkiller Posted November 7, 2015 Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 Ideally you dont want to clone a drive thats active/running so that it can copy everything without any restrictions. Acronis is the best I have come across, you can make a bootable USB/HDD from it and then tell it to clone a specific partition to another hard drive - and obviously it all does this outside of a windows environment. Alternatively if you don't want to go through the whole cloning process again, you could run something like sfc /scannow in CMD with admin rights on the windows installation where the apps/edge are not working. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnFlower Posted November 7, 2015 Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 Why does it have to be running? Boot SystemRescueCd from a USB and go from there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroPenguins Posted November 7, 2015 Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 I personally use the Linux's "dd" command to clone my partitions or disk. Since pretty much every single Linux distro would have it... Really easy to clone once you know how to use it, it's just two lines of terminal commands... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
professa X Posted November 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 15 hours ago, Moodkiller said: Ideally you dont want to clone a drive thats active/running so that it can copy everything without any restrictions. Acronis is the best I have come across, you can make a bootable USB/HDD from it and then tell it to clone a specific partition to another hard drive - and obviously it all does this outside of a windows environment. Alternatively if you don't want to go through the whole cloning process again, you could run something like sfc /scannow in CMD with admin rights on the windows installation where the apps/edge are not working. i might just try this. is acronis a paid application? also i want to make a bootabe clone. will this work for me? please ask me questions for more details. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moodkiller Posted November 7, 2015 Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 28 minutes ago, professa X said: is acronis a paid application? It is... but im sure you can find it free elsewhere 28 minutes ago, professa X said: also i want to make a bootabe clone. will this work for me? As long as your copy the MBR and bootsector from the original hard drive - which the cloning software will do - (and assuming your PC can boot from USB/external devices), then you can make a bootable clone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
professa X Posted November 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 14 minutes ago, Moodkiller said: It is... but im sure you can find it free elsewhere As long as your copy the MBR and bootsector from the original hard drive - which the cloning software will do - (and assuming your PC can boot from USB/external devices), then you can make a bootable clone. Do u know if the trial version lets u make the honorable USB? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moodkiller Posted November 7, 2015 Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 1 minute ago, professa X said: Do u know if the trial version lets u make the honorable USB? I dont unfortunately... It might not becuase then they will be giving away their software... then again, look at WinRar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afternoon Nap Posted November 14, 2015 Report Share Posted November 14, 2015 Burn a Hiren's BootCD/DVD. Boot on the DVD. In there, there are many programs for cloning or imaging disks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
professa X Posted November 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2015 7 hours ago, Afternoon Nap said: Burn a Hiren's BootCD/DVD. Boot on the DVD. In there, there are many programs for cloning or imaging disks. Hey thanx everyone. I needed going with using acronis boot USB as mk suggested. It worked. The only issue I had was that three files were corrupted. Twinapi.appcore.dll , close.PNG, and seemingly cortanaapi.DLL. swapped twinapi.appcore.dll from my source drive, close.PNG was corrupted on my source drive as well so I copied from my brothers computer and cortanaapi.dll has a known issue on all latest builds of win 10. But all in all not too bad. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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