Clone my Laptop w/Macrium

Thank you gentlemen for the various solutions to try.

I'll play around and let you know if one works for me.

Regards to you all.

 

Well, after I formatted the memory stick in NTFS, I plugged it into the laptop and it popped up as Drive "E" amd I was able to make an image.

It took 11 1/2 hours, but it did it.

My new HD for the laptop should be coming in soon and I'll keep my fingers crossed that I can transfer the image to the new HD.

I'll report back.

Thanks !

 

pratzert,

What size is the image? That is a long time.

 

I believe it ended up being 158GB.

Maybe it has something to do with the fact the laptop is 10 years old.

 

That's about 5 MB/sec. Slow+++

10 years is old for a laptop. Is the HD IDE or SATA?

 

It's an oldie for sure... but it does have a SATA HD.

I use the old laptop for checking emails and surfing the web.

It's painful to use at times and has difficulty with graphics sometimes.

But for what I use it for... it does the trick.

I couldn't resist doubling my HD size for a mere $38.00 USD.

 

Also, bear in mind that HDs, SSDs often include their own cloning software. e.g. Samsung's Magician is quite flawless. Even though I own MR, I recently used Magician to upgrade my system drive from a 120gb Kingston SSD to a 240 Samsung Pro SSD and it could not have been simpler just following the prompts.

 

Hi ratchet,

Thanks for the tip. I appreciate it !

Regards.

 

pratzert,

Did it work?