Hard drive cloning

[Marty]

What's the easiest way to clone a drive to put in another XBOX?

Same type of drive, same adapter, same 80-wire cable, same BIOS, same XBOX version.

Just a straight up clone, drop in and boot up.

Thanks.

[Dempsey_86]

You have multiple ways to clone a drive

option 1: use an hardware cloner like this: https://www.startech.com/nl-be/hdd/satdock2reu3 to clone the hdd to another hdd, you don't even need a pc for this. 

option 2 (free): if you have an pc you can use cloning software (like hdd raw copy tool) that makes a image of your drive (cluster by cluster) and then copy the image back to your new hdd. (you can store this image file on a nas somewhere as backup) here you can find hdd copy tool: https://hddguru.com/software/HDD-Raw-Copy-Tool/

Option 3 (free for now): use fatxplorer beta to take the content off the first drive and store it on your pc, then format the 2nd drive and put the data back. https://fatxplorer.eaton-works.com

 

[Marty]

Okay, thanks.

I think I have an Acronis bootable disk that can clone a drive sector-by-sector....