HDD raw copy tool isn't the fastest for some reason, but my favorite. Thank you so much, I imagine the raw data transfer will go rather quickly since I imagine it would act in terms of transfer rates like it was a large file, though do you know how slow/fast is the gptgen tool is? I have a couple of drives I need to probably do this treatment to. Hooked into laptop dock area via usb switch Also acts as spare gaming PC with a 580 or whatever someone brings. Currently hosts shared files, setting up as pfsense box in VM. Shelf- i7-2600 non-k (has vt-d), 380t, some ASUS sandy itx board, intel quad nic. Hooked to laptop dock for both of my dell precision laptops. Some edgy Utechsmart mouse similar to g600. I got a model M i use on it to, but its time for a new keyboard. Trashy Razer blackwidow chroma.I mean like the J key doesn't click anymore. Laptop docking area- 2 1440p korean monitors mounted, one AHVA matte, one samsung PLS gloss (very annoying, yes). Stuff- Epicgear defiant (solderless swappable switches), g600, moutned mic and other stuff. Screens- 3 ASUS VN248H-P IPS 1080p screens mounted on a stand, some old tv on the wall above it. Workstation(desk)- 3770k, 970 reference, 16GB of some crucial memory, a motherboard of some kind I don't remember, Micomsoft SC-512N1-L/DVI, CM Storm Trooper (It's got a handle, can you handle that?), 240mm Asetek based AIO, Crucial M550 256GB (upgrade soon), some hard drives, disc drives, and hot swap bays Stuff- k70 with reds, steel series rival, g13, full desk covering mouse mat Screens- Acer preditor XB241H (1080p, 144Hz Gsync), LG 1080p ultrawide, (all mounted) directly wired to TV in other room Gaming and HTPC (reparations)- ASUS 1080, MSI X99A SLI Plus, 5820k- 4.5GHz 1.25v, asetek based 360mm AIO, RM 1000x, 16GB memory, 750D with front USB 2.0 replaced with 3.0 ports, 2 250GB 850 EVOs in Raid 0 (why not, only has games on it), some hard drives This is great for making backups, especially for OS drives as you can boot them in a VM (can be tricky to get it to boot properly), not useful to you right now but worth mentioning. This will raw copy and entire disk into a vhd or vhdx file, which you can mount like a disk but move around like a file.

It can fuck something up.Īnother tool I'd like to introduce you to is disk to vhd Just do it after a raw copy to the new disk then exapnd, as you don't want to do this to your only copy. Now keep in mind if disk one is MBR than you wont be able to expand the partition to the full size of the second disk. It's not the fastest one out there, but the speed will be consistent and be easy to estimate how long you have. What you need is to copy the raw data front to back. The speeds on copy-paste are bad because individual small files are hard for mechanical hard drives, it's seeking all over the drive.

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