Cloning old hard drive

person31 · Nov 28, 2017

Hi guys, I need to make a clone of my hard disk from an old Windows XP machine (Lenovo Thinkcentre). The curretnt disk is a Hitachi Deskstar and it is either 80gb or 160gb. I am thinking of getting a WD Blue 1tb 5400rpm drive for the cloned image to go on.

Will this work? I mean like if I put the cloned image on the new WD drive and then install that in the computer, will it work as it did before the cloning process?

USAFRet · Nov 28, 2017

person31 :

1. Is this cloned drive going into the same system?
2. Why are you doing this?

person31 · Nov 28, 2017

USAFRet :

It will be put into the same system to modify some software that is installed. Basically, there's a program that my dad uses for construction. It was installed on this machine in 2004 through connecting over the internet to the developers so we have no CD with the setup files. This machine has a small admin centre which gives the Admin special options. One of such is the option "Update from server". According to the description in the program, this will allow the software to be installed on a standalone machine.

So I was planning to clone the disk to another one in case the option is not what I think it is and it ends up breaking the program permanently as I currently have no backup of the system anyway.

Not really sure if that explains it clearly. But yeah, that's why Im doing this. We dont have any backups anyway so I thought it would be sort of useful just as a backup.

USAFRet · Nov 28, 2017

OK, that is a good way to proceed.
Clone, and test on the non-production drive.

Assuming you can find a cloning tool to run in XP.
Maybe CloneZilla, which is its own Linux boot environment

person31 · Nov 28, 2017

USAFRet :

Yeah, there's EaseUS backup tool which offers the ability to clone drives. This is currently installed on the system. I think it may be slightly outdated but I don't want to install anything newer on these because there's literally less than 50mb of free space available. Do you think it would be advisable to use a slightly outdated version?

USAFRet · Nov 28, 2017

person31 :

USAFRet :

Yeah, there's EaseUS backup tool which offers the ability to clone drives. This is currently installed on the system. I think it may be slightly outdated but I don't want to install anything newer on these because there's literally less than 50mb of free space available. Do you think it would be advisable to use a slightly outdated version?

If EaseUS is on there, try it.

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