Lessons learned using the cloning software
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First off the Crucial 256GB SSD screams, noticeable difference from my 500GB Seagate 7200rpm SATA drive.

My set up before adding this SSD:

EVGA Mainboard
4GB RAM
Intel Core2Duo CPU (E8500 3.16GHz)
Windows Vista 64bit
2 500GB ST364032 3AS SATA drives set up as C: and D:
Paging file was on D:

After reading some posts here I decided to create a boot drive with a USB thumb drive.  You do this with the EZ Gig IV software you can choose to start Windows and perform the clone "inside" of Windows.  If your CD is not readable you can go to Apricon's website and download the lastest too. Options for creating an ISO are available as well.

Prior to making the bootable thumb drive I wanted to clean up my current C: drive, I moved about 40GB of data to my D: drive and paired my C: down to about 200GBs.  I cleaned out my document folders and download directories. But I forgot to empty the recycle bin.  That added to the clone time and  I also forgot to change the swap file settings moving them from D: to C:, this missed step caused me some issues, if you do not have your swap file on a separate hard drive no worries.  I had no other logical partitions on the hard drive. I then backed up my C: drive to my D: just in case, not the whole drive just my data files as I have all my original install disks.

Once I created the bootable thumb drive, I rebooted my machine and changed the boot order so the USB drive would be the first bootable drive.

I then turned my machine off and I connected the bootable thumb drive and then connected the cable included in the transfer kit to the Crucial drive and plugged it in to an available USB port.  There was the SSD drive dangling from the Tower Case's USB port. The drive weighs barely nothing.

I turned on the machine and the system booted to the USB thumb drive and I followed the instructions, first off: analyzing the original boot disk my 500GB drive this step took a very long time.  First try I stopped the process because after an hour it still was analyzing.  I thought maybe something got hung up I was wrong it just takes time, after I started over 2 hours went by and still analyzing!  So I went to bed.  Woke up checked the system and it said congratulations it successfully completed.

I turned off the machine.  Removed the bootable thumb drive, Disconnected the C: Drive and connected the new SSD using the power and SATA cable originally connected.  And I booted, first changing the boot order in the bios.  I did not need to do this but I do leave thumb drives in my USB ports all the time so I wanted to avoid hassles later.  Anyway fingers crossed but knowing that my original C: drive was there.  The system booted extremely fast wow.  I got to the logon screen and entered my password and for the next forty minutes the round little graphic kept on spinning. I rebooted went to safe mode, blazing fast looked at the errors.  I remembered that I didn't change the swap files from D: to C: (why slow things down now that I have a SSD).  Rebooted and the same thing I could logon but it would take forever. So I went back to safe mode and stopped the forceware IP service and put it to disabled (this is a firewall software) I could always re-enable it.  Rebooted and the same thing system would hang after entering my password.  Ok is it the user profile?  Back to safemode, I created a new user account and rebooted, yaaaa everything came up no more issues, so I deleted my old profile (remember i have backups) and tried the old account and that one too got it ok.

Now my system is really fast, MS Office opens instantly!  Now I need to go back and get my profile information from my backups.

Hope this helps
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I've spent little time on this so don't have a detailed review. Suffice it to say it's fast on a cloning ("Simple Copy") which
it updates incrementally nice and fast too. Unlike Apple's Backup program, your data doesn't have to be in the Home Folder.

Saving and naming your routine requires attention to the panel but when you see where and how it's named at the bottom of a list of their pre-programmed routines, its clear. I haven't tried it on
iDisk but assume it works onto the internet.

I'd give 5 stars if there were a Save Routine command evident.
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I knew none of this three weeks ago and had never opened a computer in my life.  The following is what I learned from numerous blogs and YouTube videos; hopefully this will save others some time.  After one week, so far so good.

Use SuperDuper! software (free online, everyone recommends it) to CLONE your old hard drive first.  Mac's Time Machine (or a similar backup program) just backs up your FILES so you would also have to reinstall all your operating software without a clone, which takes much longer.  You can actually boot and run your computer from a cloned drive (after you press the start button, hold down the alt/option key until it asks you to select the drive from which to boot), which would be critical if your hard drive ever crashed.  I still use Time Machine for day-to-day backups to a THIRD hard drive, which is not overkill at all if you think about the nightmare of losing all your files and photos.

First clone your hard drive to an external drive using SuperDuper! (very easy; takes 4.5 hrs for 250GB), then clone it back (press the alt/option key during startup to select the cloned drive) once you've installed the new hard drive.  If you have the right hookup you could clone right to the new hard drive.  I bought a 1TB Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex (USB 2.0) as my new hard drive clone, though I could not get it to be simultaneously Mac and PC.  This is probably because I'm cloning the drive rather than just copying files.  I also upgraded the RAM to 4GB (with two, 2GB cards), which is the maximum RAM for this computer.  Always upgrade both cards with the same brand at the same time; they're sold in sets.  I bought Crucial (brand) cards, which seemed to be the most highly rated.  Go to Crucial.com and there's a guide to buying the right cards.  Well worth the $40 if you simultaneously run multiple applications.

There are YouTube videos on the hard drive installation, RAM upgrade, and SuperDuper! cloning, so go for it.  Just make sure to find a video for your computer as there are subtle differences in installation among types.
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Nothing. I repeat nothing... Is BETTER than clonex solution for cloning. Just need sterile knives and dirt, the cloex does the rest.
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This book deserves a five, but unfortunately, many things have changed in the past few months that put many of the references and open source techniques specified out of date.

It sometimes seems that many of us have forgotten the importance of taking two different things, then combining them to create a system where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. In this book, the reader gets a very small sample of what is possible by combining the Arduino controller with the highly accurate depth-sensing Microsoft Kinect peripheral. The projects are well designed and easy to build; the materials lists are full of new part / software sourcing ideas, and every chapter contains information about developing using different tools.
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I followed the instructions on this blog for installing the 120GB SSD drive in a external Sabrent drive enclosure and cloned the Laptop hard drive using the Samsung software. The Magician software doesn't recognize the drive as a SSD drive but as a USB drive so it doesn't work.  However the cloning software worked fine cloning the Toshiba hard drive into two partitions; one with boot data and one with Windows operating system.  The partition with the boot data was quite small and I considered starting over again with the Macrium Reflect software recommended by others on this blog.  However, I consider the fact that most people on this blog were not having issues with their installation so I went ahead and installed the SSD drive and it worked right away with no tinkering.  The speed of my 6 year old computer with a SSD is close to my new Lenovo T-440 with standard hard drive.  I am blown away by how much faster it is.  Before with only 2GB of memory the computer would grind to a incredibly slow speed when more than just a few windows were opened.  But now I can open 20 windows with out any noticeable decrease in speed.  This a revolutionary change for my old computer.  I will consider upgrading my Lenovo when the price for 500GB drive comes down a bit more.
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I upgraded my HP Envy laptop from a slow hard disk drive to an&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Intel-330-Series-Solid-State-Drive-120-GB-SATA-6-Gb-s-2-5-Inch-SSDSC2CT120A3K5/dp/B007P71J9W/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Intel 330 Series Solid-State Drive 120 GB SATA 6 Gb/s 2.5-Inch - SSDSC2CT120A3K5</a>&nbsp;that I had been using in my desktop.  Thanks to this product, the process was easy.

I downloaded the latest version of the included cloning software from their website first (and I suggest you do the same).  At first, the software was reporting some write errors during the cloning process.  I checked their website and they said that you should run "chkdsk /r" in the command line first to repair any damaged sectors.  I had to let that run overnight since the hard drive was so slow.  The next morning, I restarted the cloning software and it finished cloning my hard drive to the SSD in 40 minutes without any errors.  After that, I just opened up the laptop and replaced the HD with the SSD and the laptop booted up without any issues.

What's nice is that I can re-use this product again in the future if I ever get a new laptop.  It was well worth the money.  My laptop boots and runs so much faster now... it is great.
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This book promises quite a bit in the new edition, let's see what's really in here. Okay, the chapter layout is completely different as the book starts with a Technology section, followed by Discovery, then Penetration, Vulnerabilities, and finally the Toolbox. The technology part is nicely abridged to about 87 pages. The Discovery part differs greatly in that the source code has been moved to the CD and the author added more coverage and examples plus some stealthier techniques and most recent SNMP, file sharing, DNS, NetBIOS, and CGI stuff. The ports and services are still there but I found them to be pretty handy references at any rate. Penetration contains updated material and it's nice to see IDS stuff in here too. The Vulnerabilities section is promising. There's an excellent chapter on the top 75 exploits that have certainly proven to be the most misuses of security weaknesses and the newer material makes it significant. The CD contains some of the same plus full licensed software, an updated repository and all the source code moved from the original text. All things considered, this book pans out to be more of an original than a second edition and well worth the read.
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I used this to clone my old 320gb drive to this new 750gb using a Star Tech.com and could not be happier. I first had an issue of it only showing 350gb, 340gb on my C: and 10gb on my D: recovery... I may have to blame Star Tech.com clone machine. The unit made a clone that worked perfectly but I was missing 400gb....lol. After doing some searching I read about GParted, it is a free partition editor for graphically managing your disk partitions. It made a boot disk that allowed my to go in, find my missing 400gb, create a partition for it and format that partition so it could be seen and used, FYI I am using Windows 7.
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had continued errors and problems getting my computer to boot after cloning.  Had to clone over and over and with different programs and eventually it booted ok.
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Besides being super fast, this hard drive came with a free drive cloning software. So when I installed it, I was able to clone my old drive extremely easily.
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Cable worked great on my failing hard drive that I wanted to clone.  The software used to perform the clone didn't work, it indicated the clone was successful, but when swapping in the newly cloned drive it could not be read by the BIOS, I think the software just performed a copy, finally got it to clone using the Samsung Data Migration software. I was going from and IDE to a SSD drive not sure if this is a corner case for cloning to SSDs only.  The cable did work, but would recommend using another cloning software when buying this cable.
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I wanted to upgrade my Dell laptop hard drive to a bigger drive.  I was quite impressed with the cloning feature of True Image 2013; inserted the new drive in the secondary drive bay, formatted it with True Image, and then cloned the old drive onto the new one.  Then, changed the boot drive sequence (F2) to the new drive, and violla!  Worked perfectly.
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This is an excellent (and fun) tutorial on a modern multi-paradigm programming language based upon LISP.  In reviewing a book on a unusual programming language, I should begin by discussing the language and its applications.  Racket is a powerful and modern open-sourced language based on the 50 year old lambda calculus paradigm of LISP.  It is a direct descendant of Scheme and especially useful in Computer Science instruction and  in defining domain specific languages.  Like other LISP's it is a functional language with object-oriented extensions.  It is also widely used because of its flexibility in defining dialects as language for teaching programming language theory.  It also has all of the important features of most modern programming languages for performing serious work in a number of domains--being open source, compiled to a virtual machine, hosted in a number of the most popular environments (Windows, OS X, Linux), offering a powerful and yet instructional IDE--Dr. Racket, coming with batteries including libraries for web service, document development, process control, operating system interfaces, graphics and language development (lex and yacc style parsing and regular expressions).  The byte code compiler and virtual machine are highly efficient, and in most cases assisted by a JIT compiler.  On a moderately equipped I3 desktop machine I was able to execute an integer recursive factorial of 10000 in about 30 seconds.  Unlike some modern languages it has limited facilities for embedded and physical computing but I have seen a demonstration of racket being compiled for the popular Raspberry Pi and used in the control of sequenced LED displays.  The language is widely used in instruction at the High School and undergraduate levels and many of the contributors to this book are college freshman.

The book itself is fun and follows a careful easy to follow pedagogy.  It begins with a description of the language's history and motivation, discusses the installation of the language and its environment and then proceeds to teach with a combination of well drawn comics and a succession of games (one per chapter) beginning with a simple guess the number and concluding with a distributed multi-computer game employing client server technologies. Each chapter begins with a review of what you have learned to data; it spends most of the chapter teaching and illustrating the techniques you will employ in this games development; a Chapter Checkpoint reviews the techniques and paradigms learned in the chapter; finally a small set of graduated Chapter Challenges with a rating of their difficulty appears at the conclusion of the chapter.  The concluding chapter illustrates several additional things you can do with the language from compiling separate executables to composing specialized sub-languages and metaprogramming.  The book comes with an accompanying web site,  its examples are automatically loaded when you install the language according to simple instructions provided in the book.  Much additional documentation is provided with Dr. Racket the IDE and more material including additional online books and videos are available on the internet.

I highly recommend this book for beginning programmers who want to learn in the best way from those who are sensitive to the needs of undergraduates and self-starters and others interested in the powerful multi-paradigm LISP family of languages.

--Ira Laefsky, MS Engineering CS/MBA Information Technology Consultant and Human Computer Interaction Researcher
formerly on the Senior Consulting Staff of Arthur D. Little, Inc. and Digital Equipment Corporation
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Since I start mining, it was a long task to clone many hard drive using acronis or hddrawcopy, but now with this little guy it make my life easyer. If you are un gpu mining you know probably what I'm talking about, I own about 100 computer and I have to clone disk at each time I set a new one. now I just have to push a button and voila! The only thing you need to know it that you need to copy to an exact same disk, same model, size capacity and ideally batch or you need to clone to a bigger hdd, if not, the cloning will fail.

I'm using a smaller hdd for my master and I never have any problem.
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I use this software strictly for cloning from one hard drive to another. (I have 2 SSD's in my computer) Totally effortless way to backup your complete system including Windows. Just start up Acronis from your desktop, click "Clone drive", select the source drive and then the destination drive and in less than 1 hour you've created a complete duplicate copy of the primary drive. Once a week to keep all your files safe and backed up. You can also create a cloned copy to an external drive using an inexpensive SATA cable adaptor converter cable like the UCtech USB 3.0 to SATA Converter. Works perfect.