Different size drives
Hi,
We are trying to image hard drives using drive duplicators (Specificly an Aleratec drive duplicator).
Occasionally we have hard drives with an OS and the drive is say 500gb. We want to copy it onto a drive that is 160gb. Less that a 100gb of the 500 is being used, but the duplicator as far as we know, cant do mismatched sizes from a higher size to a lower size. Any Ideas?
We are trying to image hard drives using drive duplicators (Specificly an Aleratec drive duplicator).
Occasionally we have hard drives with an OS and the drive is say 500gb. We want to copy it onto a drive that is 160gb. Less that a 100gb of the 500 is being used, but the duplicator as far as we know, cant do mismatched sizes from a higher size to a lower size. Any Ideas?
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santaowns
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there are a few options out there, one is to image just what is being used. If i get time ill look into my research and see what it was that i used to copy some drives in the past. -
WafflesAndRootbeer
Member Posts: 555
You either use cloning software to do the job or you have a hardware duplicator that automatically resizes as needed. Most hardware duplicators (the stuff you find via newegg and such) don't resize because they are low-end hardware but the professional-grade ones do have what you want.
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SephStorm
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We've used clonezilla, we havent found a way to use higher mismatched drives with it. is there a partition manager or something that will let us do this? -
SteveLord
Member Posts: 1,717
CloneZilla is literally your only free decent option. Next best paid option is to use a product from Acronis. I use Backup and Recovery all the time....and yes, with mismatched drives.WGU B.S.IT - 9/1/2015 >>> ???
