The ones I mentioned above are free.Īs an alternate option I was going to mention that if you had an external HDD kicking around, you could just use that as temp space for a drive clone. So - we could have bought a SATA dock for < $25 and cloned it ourselves.Īcronis isn't usually free. It was relative easy to use CloneZilla (on a bootable USB flash drive) to clone the whole drive (basically using dd), then expand the logical encrypted partition to use all the new free space. It still worked just fine when I cloned my 250GB SSD to a new 1TB last month.įWIW, my old SSD hosts the main encrypted Ubuntu and its swap partitions. I used to do repair/recover work on HDD quite a lot, so I had an external adapter a while back. Or if it is windows, you can run Macrium Reflect from the desktop.Īny of those should work, as long as the external drive become visible to the computer. If it doesn't come with software, you can make a bootable USB/CD for Clonezilla (open source). For 2.5' HDD or SSD, you don't even need a dock as they can be powered via USB alone. It won't matter too much which one you get. Does anybody have comments on these models, or recommendations for anything better? That third is only $9 and includes Acronis software. So - we could have bought a SATA dock for < $25 and cloned it ourselves. Second time they just copied HDD to SSD and we had to open the laptop to unscrew and screw.

First time we had a service bureau clone a drive, they replaced it in the laptop.

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