I am interested in whether this can clone drives without removing the drives from a computer. Can this be plugged to a computer via USB cable and duplicate a drive in that computer to a drive plugged into the duplicator?
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No it can't clone the drive in that manner. Using that setup you can only copy from on drive to the next. Not clone
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No it is 1 to 1 copy no software is required. There are plenty of options the will clone a drive that is is a computer. This device is I little quirky but once you figure the sequence out it is very straight forward
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Yes, like Gene said, cloning is logically not possible if the destination hdd is smaller than the source hdd, right ? I also guess that you wanted to know if cloning of a sata drive to a ssd is possible ? if the size of the ssd is equal to the sata hdd or bigger and the ssd drive is the target drive, it is very much possible and vice versa too.
1459475
No. Cloning need same capacity drives. You can do this using disk copy software. I use Easeus free version with this hardware dock.
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Fantastic question! Unfortunately, I don't know. I haven't tried. I think that cloning a software encrypted drive should working without any issue at all since the dock doesn't mount the drive and can do a forensic duplication, it should be a slam dunk. It's drives with hardware encryption, support built into the device, that I don't know what to expect from. In that case, I suspect that it would clone the sectors but I don't expect that the data would ever be readable from the destination device. That said, I don't have first hand experience with either config. I'm 99% sure the software encryption clone would work and the data would still be accessible as long as you have access to the decryption key. I wish I had a more certain answer.
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If you just want to copy files to another disk you can drag and drop from one disk to another. If you want to "clone" an existing hard drive so it can be use to replace the old hard drive, you need cloning software. You may be able to find a free trial version by Googling "Free Cloning software"
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It does say in the description that it can clone your hard drive to another without a computer but as someone who hasn't used and doesn't own the product I cannot say for certain
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Rudy - No, it is strictly a CD/DVD duplicator. But you can copy files from your PC to a CD first if you want to make multiple copies of those files, such as photos, music, etc.
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No. This docking station has to be connected to a PC. It does not clone drives. Using windows or another operating system, you can copy files between the two drives but that is not the same thing as cloning a drive.
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Yes you should be able to do this using something like Clonezilla or Accronis I believe. However, if you are cloning your main drive to the external, you will not be able to use it during that time of course.
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1Chicago, the answer is yes, with this you can clone any hard drive, also SSD it will copy a HDD or SSD complete with verification to another drive. Limeyde
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This is a stand alone duplicator. So you put a Bluray or DVD in the top tray, and then you put 1-3 blurays or DVDs in the bottom trays and it automatically makes copies. It is designed to be a stand alone and as such I don't believe that you can interface it with your computer to be a burner from your pc.
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Technically, yes, you can clone the source drive to a larger destination disk, but depending on the software you are using there is a chance you'd have issues using more space than was originally available on the source drive. There are tools and software (you were not OS specific, so I'll not call anything out) out there that can expand after the clone to take more available space, and there are disk tools that can address this, but be aware of the possible outcomes.
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This device is designed to copy one drive to another without connection to a computer. Just a AC wall plug. It can however also be used as a USB dock, allowing you to use third party software yes. Though it is MUCH slower to do so that way.
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It's a duplicator. I'm not sure about copying from your computer. I have a MAC but would say no.
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you can copy files, I don't know if that's the sort of duplication you're looking for.
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No, the new hard drive has to equal or larger size than the original if you are going to clone without computer. However, there is a way to clone partitions from the old drive to the new one if you use the free Home edition of Mini Tool Partion Wizard 9.0. Hook up the new drive to Port A and connect the included USB cable from this device to the computer that has the drive that you to clone. Do some research on web on "how to" so you don't mess up your original drive! GOOD LUCK on tinkering with it.