Disk Clone Windows 2012R2

[mourip]

Does anyone have a recommendation for disk cloning software that will work well with Windows 2012R2?

[joelha]

Clonezilla.

 

Not pretty but it's free and boots from a flash drive.

[plissken]

Acronis True Image. Just keep hitting dealnews.com and you may get it for next to free.

 

[mourip]

Thanks for the two tips. Acronis has a $30 off coupon on NewEgg and dealnews.com gets me $10 off so I can get it for free.

 

Oddly this afternoon while I was playing music my second disk that has my music on it became unavailable. I pulled it and it seems to be working so I need to figure out what happened. Manually copying files to another computer currently. I do have a backup on my NAS also.

[Adaqin1500]

Hope this will not be too late. I would like recommend you a fantastic disk cloning software - AOMEI Backupper. It is completely free and easy to use. You can do disk clone with just a few clicks. It allows you to clone if your destination hard drive is smaller than source drive. Also, it is not just a disk clone software, it is still a professional backup and restore software. Do not miss it. Here is the link of disk clone.

http://www.backup-utility.com/help/disk-clone.html

[mourip]

47 minutes ago, Adaqin1500 said:

Hope this will not be too late. I would like recommend you a fantastic disk cloning software - AOMEI Backupper. It is completely free and easy to use. You can do disk clone with just a few clicks. It allows you to clone if your destination hard drive is smaller than source drive. Also, it is not just a disk clone software, it is still a professional backup and restore software. Do not miss it. Here is the link of disk clone.

http://www.backup-utility.com/help/disk-clone.html

 

Thanks. I like free:-)

Luckily my SSD seems to be OK and I was able to make a copy of the 350gb of music. I am replacing the data cable and will fire up my server again today. Hopefully "fire up" is a poor choice of words!

[seeteeyou]

If we're actually turning Intel Optane Memory into a boot drive, ted_b already tried both AOMEI Backupper and EaseUS but both of them resulted in unbootable Optane afterwards

 

Finally he tried Paragon Migrate OS to SSD and Optane turned out to be bootable

 

https://www.paragon-software.com/landing-pages/migrate-OS-to-SSD/

https://www.paragon-software.com/home/migrate-OS-to-SSD/

[plissken]

1 hour ago, Adaqin1500 said:

Hope this will not be too late. I would like recommend you a fantastic disk cloning software - AOMEI Backupper. It is completely free and easy to use. You can do disk clone with just a few clicks. It allows you to clone if your destination hard drive is smaller than source drive. Also, it is not just a disk clone software, it is still a professional backup and restore software. Do not miss it. Here is the link of disk clone.

http://www.backup-utility.com/help/disk-clone.html

 

I tried AOMEI and it leaves a lot to be desired. Acronis is much more polished.

[scan80269]

As an alternative to disk cloning, it may be possible to install a clean copy of WS2012R2 into a second drive using the same product key.  In my experience, Windows Server activation is pretty tolerant of changes to mass storage.