Can you clone a drive while it is service on the computer without having to physically remove the source drive. ie, from c: drive to docked target?
251144
Yes you can. You can treat the docking station like removable media or it will function as a stand alone clone.
251145
No you can't. The master drive has to be pysically removed from the system and put into Master slot A and the alternate/Slave or clone drive will be placed in slot B.
251146
Cloning only works if the usb is disconnected. Thus now while in use with a PC.
251147
I have used the docking station to clone a drive , but physically put both the drive to be cloned and the new drive in the docking station. I use Acronis to clone a drive that has not been removed from the computer. These two methods work great for me.
251148
i do not think so. i have used the star tech drive to clone several disks including the system drive and they all have worked aok. however, i have always physically placed the original disk in the rear slot and the target disk in the front slot. since the star tech device reads/controls the disk, i do not see how you could clone a disk without physically placing it in the unit. to be able to clone a drive without removing it from the pc would be a nifty idea however.
251149
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.
1170956
Drive Genius also offers disk copying. My favorite, though, is Carbon Copy Cloner, especially for cloning the Recovery partition easily.
1619217
This system can be used for both cloning and as extra storage. It's not designed to transfer data from SATA drive directly to a USB device without a computer involved. Some drive duplicators, like those made by Tableau and Supersonix, can do that but it gets expensive.
1018785
No it won't and cloning the drive is not a good idea. You'll want to install windows directly onto the ssd and use the hdd as a backup
1510475
Theoretically, you can since the dock mode presents the two HDDs in JBOD layout from my understanding but I've only used it to clone HDDs. Please confirm with StarTech instead, I'm just one of the many customers.
1510474
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.
664414
No, with this product you will need to remove the hard drive from the computer and insert it into this dock in order to clone.
888980
Yes, you can MAKE a bootable CD, but for cloning only, why would you want to? If you only want to clone a hard drive, rather pay for a backup program, you can just get a cloning program. Also, if you ever want to replace one or more files, it is much easier and faster to restore those only from a backup set.
534923
Mine did not come with cloning software. You can go to seagate's site and download their program called disk wizard I think. I used that to clone my seagate hybrid drive to the 600.
1269242
The USB connection on the back of the unit when powered on allows you to put a drive in one of the slots and access it. It functions as a docking station only. To copy drives you must put the source and target in the unit. So you must physically remove it as there is no software that would allow you to select a drive while it is in the computer.
1940857
I use it for direct drive to drive copies. It doesn't cone with cloning software. I've never tried
270169
Yes you could, what you need to know....... The drive inside is a std length (~2"/50mm) long w/ the M2 interface. If you are going to clone the original drive you will need to get a M2 to SATA adapter to make it easy.
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It would have been helpful if you had described what you intend to do. Clone what, exactly, would be a good start. And do you have any extra hardware available, such as an unused HDD that could be used for temporary storage?
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Yes I did. if it don't work, download easeus data partition and partition data before you clone. I went from 1tb HDD to 512 ssd with no problems
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No. The hard drive comes with a free version of Acronis, which should allow you to create a clone of your operating system. The catch is that since the solid state section of the hard drive in only 100 GB, you have to make sure that your C: drive is no more than 100 GB. The way I did this was by backing up all my music, photos, documents, downloads, etc. to an external hard drive, and then deleting the contents of these folders from the laptop. I also went into the hidden folder "c:/users/(your_name)/AppData" and deleted many GB of unnecessary data. At this point is when I cloned my C drive unto the solid state section of the new drive. The next step is to redirect the location of your documents, music, downloads, etc. to your D drive (the regular, non-solid state section of the drive) to make sure that you make proper use of the drive This being said, Acronis did not work for me. I had to use Macrium Reflect to clone the drive. The cloning process should take 30-60 mins. The telltale sign that Acronis was not working, is that it would finish the process in under 1 min. You can do a trial version of Macrium Reflect, just make sure that you can clone the drive, not only backup partitions. On the plus side, it was so worth it! My programs run lightning fast, and boot times are ridiculously fast! Good Luck!
1940856
If you had software that supported drive cloning yes, but the device by itself does not do "push button" clones.
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You should be able to download and use the free software "Seagate DiscWizard" from the Seagate website. I know you can usually clone data from a current hard drive to a new hard drive as long as the new hard drive is larger than the current hard drive.