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Trying to clone to a partition

John Connor

John Connor

Lifer
I tried Acronis 2014 and Macrium Reflect and I can't clone to a specific partition on my external drive. I have a 1 terabyte external drive that I partitioned off into three sections. One partition contains a back up via copy paste of the files on my HDD. I want to clone my SSD to the external drive and chose the other partition I created, but instead both programs want to clone to the entire damn external drive!

What software that is easy to use will clone my SSD to a specific partition on the external drive?
 
John Connor said:
I tried Acronis 2014 and Macrium Reflect and I can't clone to a specific partition on my external drive. I have a 1 terabyte external drive that I partitioned off into three sections. One partition contains a back up via copy paste of the files on my HDD. I want to clone my SSD to the external drive and chose the other partition I created, but instead both programs want to clone to the entire damn external drive!

What software that is easy to use will clone my SSD to a specific partition on the external drive?
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Try R-studio. There is option: Copy object to..
R-studio_copy_object_to.jpg
 
I may be completely wrong but it sounds like you want an image and not a clone of your ssd.

AFAIK an image creates a file that contains all the data on specific drive, while a clone creates a partition with all the data from another partition. So a clone will not use the pre-existing partitions as it needs to create its own, while an image is just a really large file you can move around to which partition you like.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2029832/backing-up-your-entire-drive-cloning-vs-imaging.html
 
I found this watching a YouTube video and it looks like you can clone to a specific partition with the partition clone option. http://www.aomeitech.com/

Made in China though. I really don't trust the Chinese because it may have a rootkit or some other hacker crap. But I scanned it with Bitdefender and found nothing.
 
I think Clonezilla might do what you're looking for... at least I think I remember the option being there when I used it. It's free, but don't let that deter you; it's the only program that I found that would clone an encrypted drive with its MBR and all that jazz properly.

It may have a clunky interface, but it's a mighty fine tool.
 
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