Acronis makes it simple. Free bootable ISO is available for Seagate or WD drives--only one of the two drives needs be the matching OEM.
Drive connections can be whatever--both SATA, one SATA & one external USB, et al. Allows some flexibility on moved partition sizes. Only meant for whole disk migration in these two editions. Links: * Seagate's Disc Wizard, http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/discwizard * Acronis WD Edition, http://support.wdc.com/product/downloaddetail.asp?swid=119 Poke around with the above names for more info. . On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 6:35 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) < lop...@nedharvey.com> wrote: > > From: Matt Lawrence [mailto:m...@technoronin.com] > > Sent: Monday, August 05, 2013 8:08 AM > > > > On Mon, 5 Aug 2013, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: > > > > > Why do you want to think about sector sizes and partition tables? > > > > > > I'm pretty sure Acronis TrueImage has a trial period. Just backup the > > > whole disk, then boot from rescue, and restore the whole disk. > > > > > > If not, then consider Paragon Backup & Recovery, or Terabyte Unlimited: > > > Image for Windows (you actually need Image For Linux boot CD to > restore) > > > > So far doing a disk image backup/restore has left me with a 100GB > > partition that can't be resized, when it will boot at all. > > You must be doing something wrong or using a bad tool. I recommend > TrueImage. I have been deploying it at work for about 7 years, on hundreds > of computers, all laptops, probably about 2 dozen different makes/models. > There are only two problem I ever face: The UI is kinda weird. Sometimes > you get confused about what you're supposed to click on. And sometimes you > boot from the rescue CD only to discover the rescue CD doesn't have a > driver for the hard drive or network. In which case, I email support, and > they provide me with a link to an alternate rescue CD. So far, that's > never failed. > > I am thankful that my days of messing around with crappy partition tools > are over. (Except on Mac OSX). > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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