09-12-2015, 12:59 AM
(09-11-2015, 09:48 PM)Surge Wrote: This'll be interesting. No room or screws to slot in the second HDD while I clone the old one over, and only two SATA cables
Just leave it laying in the bottom of the case. Hard drives don't rattle around much at all unless there's something wrong with it. Having only 2 connectors is a problem though, you'll have to boot from USB in order to reclaim the CD drive's sata cable for cloning.
Or use an external USB to SATA bay. I have a nice one for the purpose that allows hotplugging and accept desktop or laptop sized drives so I can copy them whenever.
(09-11-2015, 10:10 PM)Surge Wrote: The base version of EaseUS' cloning software is Linux only....God damnit...
Why bother with that.
Use a Debian or Ubuntu LiveUSB to boot from a USB stick, then install and use DDRescue to do the device cloning.
DDRescue is designed to recover data from old or unreliable hardware, and while it makes the same 1:1 final result as the dd utility, it prioritizes the easy to read data and then goes back for data which isn't so easily recovered in order to salvage as much as possible from a drive which is faulty without stressing it to death.
Also if you plan on cloning a drive that does not have defects in it, do yourself a huge favor and use dd to write a file containing all zeroes to the drive's filesystem before cloning. This will make any space on the drive not occupied by other files be all zeroes, eliminating any garbage data that hasn't been overwritten yet and keeping it from being copied to the new device.
Basically, for what you're trying to do, you should be using Linux anyway. It just works, and doesn't cost anything to get.
Feel free to PM me if anything is broken