Windows 10: Cloning Windows Partition Continues to Fail

Hi All,


I got a new system for myself which left me with a spare SSD for my wife. She's dual booting Windows 10 and Linux. The SSD is the same size as her HDD currently in the system. In Linux I ensured that partitions were literally identical running the fdisk command.


I'm cloning one partition at a time. The Linux partitions work flawlessly no surprise.... the Windows partition fails miserably. The clone succeeds but when I reboot I get a blue screen.


I do not want to clean install for various reasons. Unlike Linux which takes 20 minutes to install, Windows takes hours and always has a series of problems along the way. Additionally, I'm not even sure I have the install media any more as the system is a few years old and I've moved and may have misplaced the original install dvds. Finally, the system is set up in a very specific way including backup scripts, mount points, specific software doing specific things at specific times. Starting from scratch is not an option.


Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might get this clone to work right for the Windows partition? I knew this would be a nightmare but so far I'm 5 days into efforts and just failure after failure. It's amazing that Linux worked on first try while Windows fails with an identical copied partition . . .


Thanks.

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partition cloning help!

Well I just bought a SATA seagate 320gb 7200.10 hard drive. I had to get a power adapter, but anyway. It's in as Drive F (did disk management). Now all I want to do is clone the partition from my old hard drive to my new hard drive. Copy windows and everything else over on my new hard drive, take out my old drive and then use the new drive as the primary C drive. I have norton ghost, and partition magic. I heard ghost is much better. Could someone tell me step by step how to accomplish this? I think I know how, but I do NOT wanna take any chances here..

 

Failing HDD and Cloning

Programs like Tera Copy can be useful for such tasks since they provide faster copying and they have a list of processed files. If it fails, you know instantly what file failed and you can also resume or restart file copy/move operations. Tera Copy is a free program so give it a try.

Cloning is for drives that are in perfect mechanical/electronic condition but have a corrupted partition or parasitic virus infection. You clone the drive and then you can repeatedly perform data salvaging tasks without the risk of degrading data and making it unrecoverable forever. If recovering fails, you just restore the drive and start all over.

Something you can't afford on failing drives, because they will interrupt the data cloning process. And when it fails, you have to do it all over again.

 

Failing HDD and Cloning

You seem intend on this install clean install windows when I have said windows does not run on that drive and TeraCopy doesn't even budge anymore.
for moving files from that drive. Then there are those that have suggested imaging and 1 or 2 that talked about cloning software.

I now have 3 HDDs left...

So nothing is copying, no cloning and imaging, now what?