I don’t know what’s so “easy” about Hasleo EasyUEFI WinToHDD products … I’ve tried every giveaway of theirs for over a year now and have never figured out how to get them to do anything.
Let’s explore their web page tease:
Reinstall Windows directly from ISO, WIM, ESD without using CD/DVD/USB.
• Install Windows onto a second hard drive directly from ISO, WIM, ESD without using CD/DVD/USB.
• Clone Windows operating system to new hard disk or SSD.
• Hot clone Windows without restarting the clone source computer.
• Install any version of Windows 10/8/7/Vista/2016/2012/2008 (64 & 32 bits) from same USB drive on both BIOS and UEFI computers.
• Fully Compatible with GPT/UEFI.So … we gotta have an ISO, WIM, ESD? Quick, everyone, what are they, where are they, and or how do we get or make them?
Don’t need a USB … but install any version from a USB … but, how do I clone a laptop hard drive to another hard drive without attaching a USB hard drive, is this only for internal-mount drive cloning?
Okay, in spite of it’s claiming to clone without a USB, it finds a USB hard drive ( in spite of it’s claims to need an ISO, WIM, ESD, and not need USB ).
Now choose … MBR for BIOS … GTP for UEFI … or “keep existing partition scheme” … but no clue as to what the existing is or why to choose one of the others … so are there three or more possibilities, where the program can clone, or convert to two different formats?
And then shows two potential partition layouts that are identical and asks to choose a system partition and a boot partition, neither of which can be done, as there are no selection devices or radio buttons or checkboxes or highlight capabilities OR SUGGESTIONS ( nor do I care to understand ) … and this is supposed to be “easy”!
The supposed “help” opens a web page ( so this doesn’t work off the web ? ), and their own webpage says:
A single partition may be both a system and a boot partition.
… and, more importantly, their webpage “help” does not even show their own program or how to select, decide, or why do we even have choices, cloning is supposed to be cloning, just make a copy of the drive, please, just make a copy of the drive, oh please, please, please, just make a copy of the drive.
Regardless, I cannot proceed. there is only the [ Back ] button.
Let’s try another USB-attached hard drive.
Now I get the options to highlight responses to “system partition” and “boot partition”.
There is no system partition nor boot partition on a target clone drive, it is to be considered blank.
Apparently this program can do nothing on it’s own, it has absolutely no intelligence, no automation, no smarts, no savvy.
I give up.
Does ANYONE have success?
Has anyone produced a script for successful use of this program?
Please, do share.
___________Alternatively, I have no problem removing a laptop hard drive, and in the process, remove heat-holding shrouds, and dremel out holes in the laptop cabinet to improve subsequent ventilation.
I’ve been cloning in a dual sata usb 3 dock, push one button and walk away, no computer necessary or co-opted or preoccupied.
THAT’S easy.
Microcenter sells a dual sata usb 3 cloning dock for $30, and can be used for twin online drives between cloning activities.
NOT a giveaway, but a whole lot better time saver than the time waster than Hasleo EasyUEFI WinToHDD at any price — where free is not free, really.
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