Best way to copy content to another IDE drive?

mf2385 · *Last edited by mf2385; 10-02-2012 at 23:10.*

I am giving my brother my SSD that I currently am using in my computer because I am upgrading. It is used now for booting and only has a few games on it and stuff. What is the best way to go about copying the information from it to my other IDE internal HDD? I won't need to reinstall Windows or anything on my other internal HDD right? Should I reinstall Windows on my other internal IDE drive?

PhazeDelta1 · 10-02-2012, 23:23 | posts: 9,311 | Location: 90° N

If you use clonezilla you wont have to reinstall anything. It will do a 1:1 copy to the drive of your choice.

mf2385 · *Last edited by mf2385; 10-02-2012 at 23:32.*

I have clonezilla, so how will I do this I can copy all the information from my ssd to my other large HDD and won't have to do anything else? What option will I have to choose in clonezilla? I just mean what option will I have to choose once I am running Clonezilla in order to achieve this? drive to drive? I want to copy the SSD drive data right to another drive that has all my stuff on it.

PhazeDelta1 · 10-02-2012, 23:31 | posts: 9,311 | Location: 90° N

read here.
http://geekyprojects.com/cloning/how...illa-tutorial/

mf2385 · 10-02-2012, 23:35 | posts: 1,946 | Location: Long Island

Ok so basically I am going to make an image of my SSD drive, then restore the drive once it's saved on my other main hard drive?

mf2385 · *Last edited by mf2385; 10-03-2012 at 01:16.*

I mean copy it over to my current driver without erasing everything. I followed all the steps to a T, and I got up to the step that was about to erase everything and I dont' want to. Can I just create like a 200GB new partition on my current large HD and open the image I made on that as primary? Should I shrink volume or something what do you guys suggest I do? I used Clonezilla to make the image of my current SSD I want to keep as my boot if possible.

PhazeDelta1 · 10-03-2012, 01:32 | posts: 9,311 | Location: 90° N

I'm not sure if you can do that. I have only followed those directions that I posted.

mf2385 · 10-03-2012, 01:35 | posts: 1,946 | Location: Long Island

I shrunk my volume and created a new drive H: and I am going to try to open the image file on that drive now on the new partitioned drive.

Veteran · 10-03-2012, 10:55 | posts: 7,380 | Location: United kingdom

If its the data only that you want and not a bootable,then just do it the old fashioned way and cut/copy paste.

By the time you have read how to use clonezilla it the copying will be done.

Pill Monster · 10-03-2012, 11:09 | posts: 20,439 | Location: NZ

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Originally Posted by mf2385

I am giving my brother my SSD that I currently am using in my computer because I am upgrading. It is used now for booting and only has a few games on it and stuff. What is the best way to go about copying the information from it to my other IDE internal HDD? I won't need to reinstall Windows or anything on my other internal HDD right? Should I reinstall Windows on my other internal IDE drive?

why are you moving your OS from a SSD to an IDE drive?

Basquedude · 10-03-2012, 21:48 | posts: 135 | Location: Cloud 9

UBCD has a bunch of free clone tools.
Copywipe works pretty well, you have to boot from bios, its linux based.