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    Anyone had experience using TVT Rescue and Recovery to clone a hardrive?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by pepclub, Dec 11, 2010.

  1. pepclub

    pepclub Notebook Consultant

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    Might be upgrading my hardrive soon and I want to keep my current config. I read through the Rescue and Recovery help files and it seems possible to clone and restore the image.

    So does anyone here used Rescue and Recovery for cloning purposes before?
    Any potential issues?

    Also, how would the APS software react to the new hardrive?

    Thanks!
     
    pepclub, Dec 11, 2010
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    gwf12 Newbie

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    Yes, I have done it. You need a full backup on external media (a USB drive, for example) made with R&R, and a bootable media, which can be the same USB drive if you made it bootable using R&R, or a separate "rescue media" created with R&R. Put the new disk into the machine, boot from the rescue media and choose to do a complete restore.
     
    gwf12, Dec 13, 2010
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  3. pepclub

    pepclub Notebook Consultant

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    Thanks for the feedback!
     
    pepclub, Dec 14, 2010
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    Renee Notebook Virtuoso

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    If you are talking about a system disk, Windows has a full backup and restore capability. It has saved my life any number of times.

    Renee
     
    Renee, Dec 14, 2010
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