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I have a 1 TB hard drive with OS installed (Windows Server 2012 R2), several partitions, dynamic disk.

All I want to do is back everything up so I can basically clone it to a bigger drive. However, so far Windows Server Backup and Paragon Hard Disk Manager have proven to be useless. For some reason I can’t restore a backup I created in Paragon to another disk, even though the back up is on a different drive. I get a metadata collision error.

I just need the simplest way that will let me take a live image of that entire 1 TB drive and just re-apply it to another drive. Suggestions?

Giacomo1968
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Christopher Bruce
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Regarding your issue. I suggest you to download any windows server backup software which normally comes with 30 days minimum trails. Where you can backup the whole windows machine as image backup in vhd file format and restore it in another disk which is equal or bigger in size(during restore the layout should be written where it can not be smaller than source machine disk size layout).

The restoring can be done using recovery cd or you can convert that vhd files in to iso file and do booting in new machine.

Note : I can not recommend software for this but you can google it and take the software which suits you well

BDRSuite
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Both Macrium Reflect Free edition and free DriveImage XML (https://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm) have worked well for me, though I'm not sure if Reflect Free can restore to a disk of different size.

DrMoishe Pippik
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