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so this video is going to be kind of a precursor to something I'm going to be working on shortly this is how to clone a hard drive so I'm going to start with pressing the F lock because I have one of those old Microsoft keyboards that actually has an F lock button so I'm pressing f11 going into my boot menu I have three drives attached to this system the first one is a DVD drive okay inside there I have a copy of a proneness true image 2010 and then over here I have the two drives that I want to clone so I've got a raptor 160 gigabyte hard drive and that is going to be my source Drive and then I'm going to be cloning that to a vertex 60 gig SSD so I'm going to select the CD or DVD as my boot drive and then it is going to keep going and loading things won't take too long there we go and we'll get right into the Cronus trim oh look at how my mouse is behaving that's very strange I can't move side to side that's the weirdest thing I've seen in a while so I'll use the keyboard and just do that there we go problem solved basically what I'm doing this for is we did a tech tips episode recently where we compared a hard drive to an SSD and I had a couple complaints that the comparison wasn't exactly fair the drives that I used were the vertex limited edition from OCZ which is the fastest ocz vertex SSD on the market at this time and then the drive I compared it against was the Western Digital one terabyte caviar black which is a very respectable drive by any stretch of the imagination but I had a lot of people asking me well what if we did it with a 10000 kr PM Drive what if you used a lower-end SSD so that's exactly the comparison I'm prepping now I'm using that same image which I've already cloned to the raptor 160 gig 10,000 rpm Drive and then I'm going to load that onto a vertex 60 gig which is again I'm much lower-end SSD so we're going to go down to tools and utilities click clone disk and we're going to go manual mode then I'm going to select my source disk which is disk to the 149 gigabyte Western Digital there we go click Next and then I'm going to select my target disk click Next okay I'm overwriting a previous version of the same image so it should be just fine I'm going to use proportional and I'm going to proceed it takes about an half an hour and then I will be able to shoot my little quick episode comparing the vertex 60 against the WD Raptor ten thousand rpm drive