HDD Cloning Software

[Pudgie]

Well I couldn't wait for next week to show up, especially when I remembered that I still had some Velcro left over from prior projects..............

So I velcroed the 2nd SSD on the back of 1 of my platter drives & plugged the SSD into #4 SATA III header (3rd party controller) & cloned my ghost drive to it after set up in Disk Manager.

Then pulled the 2nd platter drive off #2 native SATA III header (X79) & plugged the newly cloned SSD into it & rebooted..................... ....

All came up flawless. Reassociated my page file to the ghost drive & rebooted my box to have Windows to reallocate................... ......

All is well.

As of right now I am running on both SSD's & the ingame performance improvement is VERY noticeable, even when running at 1024 textures & 8192 shadow textures & reflection bump mapping at 1/2 update w/ all else set at full graphics settings. They DO make a difference!

This EaseUS Todo Backup 5.0 Free is a winner for me. This might prompt me to spring for the paid version of EaseUS Todo Backup 5.0 Home (non-business)........only $29.95. 

When the 2 dual drive 2.5" to 3.5" hotswappable enclosures I mentioned earlier get here I can clean her up & make her pretty again & never have to remove the back cover again to change/swap/clone HDD's................sweet!

 

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Well I couldn't wait for next week to show up, especially when I remembered that I still had some Velcro left over from prior projects..............

So I velcroed the 2nd SSD on the back of 1 of my platter drives & plugged the SSD into #4 SATA III header (3rd party controller) & cloned my ghost drive to it after set up in Disk Manager.

Then pulled the 2nd platter drive off #2 native SATA III header (X79) & plugged the newly cloned SSD into it & rebooted..................... ....

All came up flawless. Reassociated my page file to the ghost drive & rebooted my box to have Windows to reallocate................... ......

All is well.

As of right now I am running on both SSD's & the ingame performance improvement is VERY noticeable, even when running at 1024 textures & 8192 shadow textures & reflection bump mapping at 1/2 update w/ all else set at full graphics settings. They DO make a difference!

This EaseUS Todo Backup 5.0 Free is a winner for me. This might prompt me to spring for the paid version of EaseUS Todo Backup 5.0 Home (non-business)........only $29.95. 

When the 2 dual drive 2.5" to 3.5" hotswappable enclosures I mentioned earlier get here I can clean her up & make her pretty again & never have to remove the back cover again to change/swap/clone HDD's................sweet!

 

Placebo DOES make a difference No SSD is going to improve your frame rates. All they can do is reduce load times.

[wabbit]

I bet you've already noticed those reduced load times, eh? I love my SSD.

I avoided the garbage from ATTO, by getting my copy from majorgeeks instead, (I think it was them, but I'm old).

Todo can be used with a Win Pe. You just have to go through the pain of building the boot disk manually, instead of from Todo. Interesting about the the alignment thingy. Macrium Reflect didn't have anything like that that I noticed. I may have to recheck that and give Todo another try.

Wabb

[Pudgie]

I bet you've already noticed those reduced load times, eh? I love my SSD.

I avoided the garbage from ATTO, by getting my copy from majorgeeks instead, (I think it was them, but I'm old).

Todo can be used with a Win Pe. You just have to go through the pain of building the boot disk manually, instead of from Todo. Interesting about the the alignment thingy. Macrium Reflect didn't have anything like that that I noticed. I may have to recheck that and give Todo another try.

Wabb

Yes sir I did & loving them more every day!

Ahhh OK. Didn't think about manually creating a boot disk then putting the software on it.

Thanks for your posts. Good to know that there's someone willing to help out.