Clonezilla is the bomb for that. Back in the XP days I kept server copies of all my classroom systems. I could restore the whole room in 20 minutes. Curt
Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 5:44 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: It’s times like this that I’m glad I use Macs. Youngest son just got a brand new PC with Windows 10. He had the hard drive from his old machine. How to migrate over? No easy way - have to use a third party utility to clone the old drive and then clone it to the new one. Took the better part of a day. I just migrated to a new Mac Pro. I think it too about 10 minutes to move everything over, and once I logged into iCloud all of my accounts and credentials came over, too. And yes, you should be able to set up a mirrored RAID (1) and once it’s built, break it. I think. -D > On Nov 23, 2018, at 5:32 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > In theory, Mirroring and breaking the set, (or just unplugging the spinning > drive once the mirroring is done) should work. I have not used that method > for cloning, so Ymmv... > You may need to use a drive utility like gpartd to resize the 500 to 480 or > less to make the mirroring happy. It may not want to mirror 500 to 480, but > should be happy to mirror say 470 to 480. > >> OK Don via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> November 23, 2018 at 4:21 PM >> I bought a used PC (HP Z420) with a hard drive that has a fresh load of W10 >> Pro. I want to migrate this OS installation to and new SSD. The Z420 has >> RAID on board, so can I mirror the two drives (one is 500GB, the SSD is >> 480GB) to replicate the installation, then break the mirror and remove the >> old spinning drive and boot from the SSD? >> >> Clear as mud? >> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
