Disk Imaging Software for Bare Metal Restore

Hi Experts,

I want to clone the 256 GB SSD on my Microsoft Surface Pro to a new Microsoft Laptop 3 also with 256 GB SSD.

So the software needs to have bootable recovery media.

I have attempted to use the following software packages, but the recovery media either will not boot or crashes:

Acronis
ShadowProtect SPX
AOMEI Backupper Workstation

Regards,
Leigh

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LeighWardle

8/22/2022 - Mon

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3/17/2020

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LeighWardle

3/17/2020

ASKER

Thanks, nobus.

I can see that Paragon includes a Recovery Media Builder.
Can casper create USB memory stick Recovery Media?

Regards,
Leigh

nobus

3/17/2020

sure it can, i have a stick with casper 8 lying here ( that's an old version)

Tom Cieslik

3/17/2020

You can purchase SATA to USB cable and mirror disk using any software you like. I prefer AOMEI Backuper, then put this drive to second laptop.
You should be OK with booting.

If not,, Just do Partition C backup to external drive
Start new Windows installation on second computer and let instalator create boot manager
Run AOMEI backuper recovery disk and restore only C partition

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LeighWardle

3/17/2020

ASKER

Thanks, nobus.

Casper did everything asked of it.
A great product.

But I've moved on to trying to get the target PC to boot.

Thanks, Tom, for your suggestions.

Regards,
Leigh

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