What's the best way to migrate a boot drive nowadays?

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corkyg

corkyg

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Right, . . .and then you have choices. Put away a complete emergency backup drive, or format it for use as a secondary drive.
 
deustroop

deustroop

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Not sure that is correct. I don't think a format changes the disk ID. The point though is that Samsung has not provided a general purpose cloning app.It is only good for its intended application. It will not allow you to clone a new drive and keep it online without further work to change the ID which very few users would know how to approach. The migrating function is intended for notebook type computers upgrading their disks to a Samsung. So you would not recommend it to someone adding a disk to their system which would be online with its origin disk ; OTOH unrestricted cloning is something the other cloning tools recommended here are designed to achieve .
 
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Tex Arcana

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Is there a tool that could be used off an already-formatted USB drive? I have my Win7 Ultimate x64 installation on a 64GB thumb drive, with a couple of Linux images and Hirens' BootCD as well, and a a good clone/migration tool would be great.
 
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Ranulf

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Tex Arcana said:
Is there a tool that could be used off an already-formatted USB drive? I have my Win7 Ultimate x64 installation on a 64GB thumb drive, with a couple of Linux images and Hirens' BootCD as well, and a a good clone/migration tool would be great.
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I don't know what you used to make your multiboot drive but you might see what Yumi at pendrivelinux.com has in its support list.
 
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