We see too many users who have hit significant problems from attempting this within Windows, made 100% worse at times by having no valid backup from before doing so.Īt the end of the day, this is a user forum, and as users ourselves, we would advise you to use whatever will work best for you in your system situation. antivirus / security software, VSS being used for snapshot etc. Windows introduces many more factors that can cause problems when cloning, i.e.
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Personally, using the Rescue Media and doing this type of activity outside of Windows is a whole lot safer than doing the same from within Windows unless the two drives involved are not active / in use by Windows. Macrium Reflect defaults to using Windows PE for its media, so using the ATIH WinPE Rescue Media is a more direct comparison.
#Ez gig iv clone failed upgrade
I'm losing my mind and DO NOT want to have to plop down an extra $200 on a new copy of Windows when all I want to do is upgrade an HDD that's supposed to take very few, very easy steps!Īny help you guys can give me would be rad - I need to get back to Borderlands 2 asap and would prefer to do it having conquered this problem.Robert, the standard Acronis Rescue Media can also be used for cloning but has limitations based on the Linux kernel that is used in the media which can have issues with these newer types of drives. I've also checked the health of both HDDs and everything is fine.
#Ez gig iv clone failed software
I've also tried doing the clone with the original HDD in the enclosure and the new one in the laptop, but the EZ GIG IV software freezes after the initial selection of the Source and Destinations disks after BIOS boots up the program. I've tried both USB 3 and the USB 2 ports as well, and made sure to format the drive before each cloning attempt. I've tried using Paragon Recovery Kit through BIOS to activate things, but those are all greyed out too. I've tried going into the Disk Management on Windows and setting the newly copied OS partition (now labeled A: ) to active, but that option is greyed out because, well, I don't think Windows recognizes the new Seagate as a separate disk because it's connected by USB.
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It gets through 100% of what it needs to do, then it quickly cycles through a few windows and gives me a giant white window with a giant, red, ERROR message. I start it up because I've already made the 4 Asus Recovery DVDs so whatever if it wipes everything at this point. Okay, so I put in the System Repair Disc, and it brings up the special Asus menu instead of the Windows one. Also, as a side note, none of the cloned partitions get set to active after cloning.
#Ez gig iv clone failed windows 7
It's a laptop, so I only have the System Repair Disc that Windows 7 lets me make, and during the cloning process all of the partitions get re-named (which I think is one of the issues) so the recovery partition isn't linked to the proper F key or something. It tells me I need the Windows Installation Disc to repair the start up. It completes successfully, I shut down, swap out the drives. I've updated my BIOS like ASUS tech support told me, and then I recloned the original 500gb Hitachi HDD to my new Seagate Momentus XT 750 gb using an Apricorn USB 3.0 enclosure (with EaseUS software, as the EZ GIG IV software wasn't working for me either).
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I've been going nuts trying to get this to work, so bear with me: I'm on an ASUS K55N Windows 7 Home Laptop with 8gb RAM. I'm just trying to upgrade my harddrive to a bigger and faster one.