Clonezilla
I wanted to add a larger hard drive to my computer running Windows Vista. I had filled up a 250GB drive that was out of space. I wanted to clone the drive and put the contents on a 1TB drive. I used Clonezilla to do this.
I downloaded the Clonezilla ISO file and burned it to a CD using a program called Tuxboot. I inserted my new drive and rebooted the computer from the ISO. I followed the instructions and 1 hour later I had cloned my drive.
I rebooted my computer on the new drive and I got a Windows error that the drive would not boot and that I should insert the Windows Vista media to fix the error. I could not find my Vista media at the moment, so I booted from the original drive. I found that the cloned drive had been written to the 1TB drive with the original partition. I used Windows disk manager to resize the partition to the full 1TB disk.
When I found my Vista media I rebooted the computer using the cloned drive and fixed the boot error. Then I rebooted and the new cloned drive worked.
Clonezilla is open source software and it works.
I downloaded the Clonezilla ISO file and burned it to a CD using a program called Tuxboot. I inserted my new drive and rebooted the computer from the ISO. I followed the instructions and 1 hour later I had cloned my drive.
I rebooted my computer on the new drive and I got a Windows error that the drive would not boot and that I should insert the Windows Vista media to fix the error. I could not find my Vista media at the moment, so I booted from the original drive. I found that the cloned drive had been written to the 1TB drive with the original partition. I used Windows disk manager to resize the partition to the full 1TB disk.
When I found my Vista media I rebooted the computer using the cloned drive and fixed the boot error. Then I rebooted and the new cloned drive worked.
Clonezilla is open source software and it works.
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