Can you clone a drive while it is service on the computer without having to physically remove the source drive. ie, from c: drive to docked target?
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The USB connection on the back of the unit when powered on allows you to put a drive in one of the slots and access it. It functions as a docking station only. To copy drives you must put the source and target in the unit. So you must physically remove it as there is no software that would allow you to select a drive while it is in the computer.
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You will need additional software in order to do that. With this unit out of the box when connected to your computer via USB 3.0 you can access hard drives in the dock just as you would external hard disk drives.
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No, this is a clone tool for 2 drives not in use or if you have an internal drive that is not primary. If you have 2 drives and don't want to run software to copy them this is the way to do it. Keep in mind its not instant. I copied a 3tb drive and it took 3.5 hours. It can also be used to create a RAID but I wouldn't use it in production.
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No it is 1 to 1 copy no software is required. There are plenty of options the will clone a drive that is is a computer. This device is I little quirky but once you figure the sequence out it is very straight forward
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No, it is a bare drive. I used a usb2IDE appliance and Clonezilla, a free OpenSource download.
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Yes you can.The fact of the matter is when you take a new drive and clone it with another content, it automatically wipe the drive for you. I move a drive to another system and clone it using the other system's content, the original data on the drive is gone.
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Are you talking about cloning the contents of this drive to your computer? If so, yes. It is indeed possible, manually or with the help of freeware. I recommend the latter though. I did the opposite though as I have a 3TB drive. Good luck.
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Yes, I have done that. I installed the new hard drive in the second drive location in the computer box. Then all you have to do is run the clone process. After that completed I moved the drive C: cable to the new drive and removed the old drive from the box. I recommend saving the old drive in case of a failure in the new drive (it happened to me).
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If you just need to clone a drive you may find other utilities better suited. This specializes in moving to an equal or larger Solid State Drive (SSD) drive. Not all disk cloning software works with solid state drives as I tried a couple of others before this and they copied the data, but the PC would not boot to the clone. I normally use other utilities to clone SATA drives.
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I'm sorry. I don't know. I had a drive cloned *for* me. I suggest you contact Seagate. They're awesome.
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You should be able to download and use the free software "Seagate DiscWizard" from the Seagate website. I know you can usually clone data from a current hard drive to a new hard drive as long as the new hard drive is larger than the current hard drive.
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No. The hard drive comes with a free version of Acronis, which should allow you to create a clone of your operating system. The catch is that since the solid state section of the hard drive in only 100 GB, you have to make sure that your C: drive is no more than 100 GB. The way I did this was by backing up all my music, photos, documents, downloads, etc. to an external hard drive, and then deleting the contents of these folders from the laptop. I also went into the hidden folder "c:/users/(your_name)/AppData" and deleted many GB of unnecessary data. At this point is when I cloned my C drive unto the solid state section of the new drive. The next step is to redirect the location of your documents, music, downloads, etc. to your D drive (the regular, non-solid state section of the drive) to make sure that you make proper use of the drive This being said, Acronis did not work for me. I had to use Macrium Reflect to clone the drive. The cloning process should take 30-60 mins. The telltale sign that Acronis was not working, is that it would finish the process in under 1 min. You can do a trial version of Macrium Reflect, just make sure that you can clone the drive, not only backup partitions. On the plus side, it was so worth it! My programs run lightning fast, and boot times are ridiculously fast! Good Luck!
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Yes you should be able to do this using something like Clonezilla or Accronis I believe. However, if you are cloning your main drive to the external, you will not be able to use it during that time of course.
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For direct cloning, I didn't have much success when the destination drive was smaller than the source drive. If the destination is equal or larger, works fantastic! One workaround was to make an image of the source using a 3rd party software, then write the image back on the destination.
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I was able to clone a bootable drive (with original and new drive both plugged into the docking station) via the eSATA port using "dd" successfully. The Thermaltake duet, although it is listed as passing SAT commands, will not secure erase via hdparm through the USB 2.0 cable, unknown if it will through the eSATA but not worth the effort if you want to erase the drive. Otherwise, you can format it in Windows or Linux (gparted etc) via the USB 2.0 connection.
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I had no issue cloning a Windows 7 drive. Computer started up with new drive without a problem.
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Yes, treat it as a standard removable usb drive, don't run the "backup" software.
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I did not try to clone a active hardrive like your question but you can try. However, you can use a clone from Samsung SSD drive software to clone your active harddrive, I what I did with my laptop
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Mine did not come with cloning software. You can go to seagate's site and download their program called disk wizard I think. I used that to clone my seagate hybrid drive to the 600.
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It depends in which software that you use, I believe there is some paid software that can clone only the OS but as always it is recommended to just reinstall straight onto the SSD