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So a small question : My father's hard drive is giving the first signs of an agony that will probably be very quick.
I think the best way to solve that is to buy another HD and to make a true image of his on the new one. I am pretty confident that this works easily with a data disque, but I am not sure if this is possible with a bootable disk. Does anyone have experience with this ? Or another idea how to solve it painlessly ?
What I would like to avoid at all costs is a complete reinstall... (and the 1000 questions such as "But where is the background image of the lion I had on my desktop ?").
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Easiest way is get another disk the same size.
Use this: AOMEI Backupper standard[^] to make an image of the disk, and a bootable CD/DVD.
Fit new HDD, boot from CD, and write the image to it.
Done.
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OriginalGriff wrote: make an image of the disk
Mmmhh.. and you transfer the image on the bootable CD ? But.. how big is an image (comrpession invovled) = does it fit on CD, or did I miss something here ?
Does this also cover the bootable part and all the UEFI/GPT blablabla thingies ?
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Rage wrote: how big is an image (comrpession invovled)
Depends on the disk: I write mine to USB HDD, and my whole Win10 and data disk image is 128GB using default compression (That's compressed from about 200GB).
Rage wrote: does it fit on CD
No! 
Rage wrote: Does this also cover the bootable part and all the UEFI/GPT blablabla thingies
Oh Yes!
It's an image - so it copies the whole disk (excluding unused portions) and writes it back.
I've used it to restore my system a couple of times (trial checks, and one live recovery onto a spare disk) and the copy boots as if it was the original.
You can do this with a bigger destination disk (I think, I haven't tried that) but you'd need their Partition Magic (again free) to "recover" the spare disk space. I used it yesterday to recover the old pre SSD disk space - I had my HDD partitioned into C (bootable, windows, apps) and D (data) and generated a single much bigger D once I removed the old bootable partition.
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Just realized the confusion: you make a bootable CD / DVD with AOMEI to boot the computer from with no OS on the new HDD - it contains the restore software which writes back the image.
The bootable is pretty tiny - it's Win PE, so about 350MB - and doesn't hold the image data.
I use a couple of external Seagate 2TB / 4TB USB drives to hold my images and backups (and unplug them when I'm finished so ransomware can't touch them)
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You can, but it's a little more complex to make a USB bootable - and it's been made more difficult since some viruses were spreading via bootable USB disks left plugged in at power up.
You're probably better with a CD / DVD if you can, as most systems will boot from it automatically.
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OK. Last question : you were saying the disk has to be the same size, is this an absolute requirement of the software or can I use a disk with larger size (or even smaller size, if I only clone the system partition ?) ?
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You can't (as far as I know) use a smaller drive than the partition you are copying from - 1L into a 500ml pot and all that - but bigger ones shouldn't be a problem. (But see the comments on Partition Magic above).
I'd strongly suggest imaging the whole disk to avoid the "But where is the background image of the lion I had on my desktop ?" type hassle! 
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If you go this route, be ready for, "Now I have to plug in this new thing too? Why?".
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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No, the usb thing is one-shot. Once I have replaced the disk, I will not need it anymore.
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I want to echo everything Griff says. But try to do a trial run or two so you know exactly how to proceed when a drive fails. That is not the time to learn the restore procedure. It is not complicated, but you need to be familiar with it, before you HAVE to use it the first time.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Trump's little palm sound like it has a grip on outrageous behaviour. [7]
Go! Go! Go!
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Tantrum ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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No, no it isn't. How did you get there?
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It was a wild guess - outrageous behaviour could be tantrum and tantrum has a lot of letters from trump in it
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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+5 Makes as much sense as the right answer normally does.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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HANDJOB?
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I'd really like to make you the winner for that!
Sorry, no.
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BLOW...I'll stop there. 
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Is it really so difficult? Though obtuse, I thought it's not too hard.
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Maybe our brains don't work like yours? 
I'll admit this has me stumped.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Maybe our brains don't work like yours?
You'd have to hope that was true.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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B'tard!
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I can't remember, are extra clues allowed with CCC? I cannot do the CCC tomorrow, no I cannot, as I will be tormenting a rather pleasant city somewhere to my North.
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Silly me, of course. I suppose this also works with USB boot (not sure if he has a CD drive).![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
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