Comments on: XXClone: Software that works http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2007/04/26/xxclone-software-that-works/ Let's just see what happens Sun, 16 Jun 2013 09:24:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Colin Wray http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2007/04/26/xxclone-software-that-works/comment-page-1/#comment-74405 Colin Wray Wed, 22 Aug 2012 20:47:18 +0000 http://www.leahweinberger.com/johotheblog_wp/?p=3670#comment-74405 I have read quite a few “it doesn’t work” reports, but it worked first time for me. I used it to upgrade my C drive from 80 to 160 GB (I took the 160GB out of a scrap video recorder).

The only downside was the 6GB per hour transfer rate, 10 hours for a 75% full 80 GB drive. This did give me time to read the help file, so maybe some people fail to run the “cool tools” to make it bootable.

The great advantage it has over the other cloner I tried – Macrium Reflect – is that it doesn’t convert the target drive into an exact clone (same size, etc). I had to resort to low level formatting to undo the results of using Reflect.

]]> By: Julian Bond http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2007/04/26/xxclone-software-that-works/comment-page-1/#comment-13485 Julian Bond Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:37:05 +0000 http://www.leahweinberger.com/johotheblog_wp/?p=3670#comment-13485 When I’ve had to do this, I’ve had the best success with a Knoppix CD, the DDRescue command and Qparted. All free. Doing this over a USB connection is horribly slow so the trick is to put both drives into a desktop PC.

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