clone hard disk to ssd

One I used and worked:

https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html


Recommended:

Documentation: https://www.backup-utility.com/clone/clone-hard-drive-to-ssd-4348.html
https://www.backup-utility.com/download.html?hot=true&hot=true


https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/feature/software/best-drive-cloning-software-3675401/

Paragon Drive Copy Professional

• RRP: US$49.95

• Buy from Paragon Software

Paragon is a well-known name for all hard drive-related software and offers a few different programs which can clone hard drives.

The one you’ll be most interested in is Drive Copy Professional. It costs £39.99 (US$49.95) and supports Windows 10.

For this you get the full set of cloning features, including the ability to copy to a smaller-capacity drive. One way it does this is by excluding certain files if there's not enough space, which saves you the job of slimming down the contents of your old disk manually.

Drive Copy also supports cloning to virtual machines so you can work with older apps which aren’t supported in Windows 10.

Find out more and download your copy on the Paragon website.

Acronis Disk Director 12

• RRP: US$49.99

• Buy from Acronis

Acronis is another established name in cloning and backup. We’ve used its True Image software for years, but for cloning disks, you need Disk Director 12.

It costs £34.95/$49.99 from Acronis’ website, or £19.95/$29.99 if you’re upgrading from a previous version.

Disk Director offers three main features: partition management, volume recovery (undelete lost partitions) and – the one we’re concerned with – disk cloning.

Naturally, it supports Windows 10, and UEFI – the new name for the BIOS on modern PCs and laptops.

Disk Director is almost overkill if you only need to clone a disk, but it’s a very useful tool to have around for when you need to partition, resize and format drives in the future, and there are lots of advanced features such as splitting volumes and spanning them across multiple disks.

You can download a demo first to try it out before you buy.

Macrium Reflect Free v7

• RRP: Free

• Buy from Macrium Software

Like EaseUS below, Macrium isn’t specifically a cloning utility, but it does offer good cloning features even in the free version.

The interface is clean and modern and the wizard takes you through each step in Windows so you can choose exactly which partitions from the old disk you want to copy to the new one.

If your new drive is smaller than the old one, it’s still possible to clone it with Macrium as long as there’s enough space on the new one to store the amount of data on the old one.

By default, Reflect will use ‘Intelligent Sector Copy’ which essentially means it won’t copy blank space to the new drive. It also supports SSD TRIM and offers the option for a ‘forensic sector copy’ which forces it to copy every single sector to the new drive.

For a free product, Macrium is one of the best around.

EaseUS Todo Backup Free

• RRP: Free

• Buy from Easeus

Although it’s primarily backup software, Todo Backup Free also includes a drive cloning feature. Given that it’s free, you’d expect it to be compromised, but that’s not really the case.

EaseUS supports Windows from XP up to Windows 10, UEFI boot, hardware RAID and all types of hard disks and SSDs.

There is one limitation: it won’t automatically clone a larger disk to a smaller one. That’s a feature that you’ll find in Partition Master Pro – EaseUS’ own tutorial suggests it’s possible in the free version of Partition Master, but it isn’t.

Clonezilla

• RRP: Free

• Buy from Clonezilla

Clonezilla has been around for a very long time, and differs from other cloning software here in that you must create a bootable USB drive in order to use it: it doesn’t run in Windows, so requires you to jump through a few extra hoops.

It does support BIOS and UEFI, and both MBR and GPT types of partition formats.

As with EaseUS, you can’t clone to a smaller-capacity drive than the source, so if you’re trying to migrate a Windows drive to your new SSD which has a smaller capacity, Clonezilla isn’t going to work for you.

magento blank checkout/cart/

Magento shopping cart empty error

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/magento-shopping-cart-empty-error

This issue come due to the cookie problem, not in browser but in Magento itself.
As per default Magento, default cookie’s lifetime is set to 3600 (1 hour). But if the end users computer time runs ahead of server’s time, then cookies will not get set for magento frontend as well as backend. For example, end user’s computer time is 1 hour forward than server’s time, that means the cookie (holding user’s session id) will expire as soon as user logs in or tries to add an item.

To solve this issue, set cookie’s lifetime to 86400 (1 day) instead of 1 hour and everything will work as expected. You can also set cookie lifetime to 0, so that cookie will only expire when the user’s browser is closed.

Go to the admin panel: Sytem -> Configuration -> Web -> Session and Cookie Management Set cookie lifetime to 86400 and save. Functionality will work as expected.

If still you are facing the issue then check if there are two cookies are setting with same name: one for domainname.com and another for www.domainname.com. then need to change the cookie domain to www.domainname.com in Admin cookie settings, So that 2nd cookie disappeared and it will works as expected.

Remember to disable compiler, that solved for me too

Those above did not solve my problem

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How to Equalize Your Computer (osx and windows) for iTunes, Spotify, and Everything Else

How to Equalize Your Computer for iTunes, Spotify, and Everything Else



Some people like to hear music precisely as it was recorded, which is why the most expensive audio equipment purports to do absolutely nothing to affect the original audio signal. Others like to tweak their sound. Whether you're on a Mac or PC, there's a way to set a global equalizer across everything—iTunes, browsers, Spotify, Rdio, Pandora, iHeartRadio, or whatever else you listen to.

Even your system sounds will be affected. If you're a sound-tweaker, this is important information, because it means you no longer have to hunt around for the equalizer that is missing from most of those apps anyway. The instructions vary based on whether you are on a Mac or a PC. Let's start with the PC.

On a Windows PC

Unfortunately, every Windows PC is a little different, and whether you have a built-in equalizer depends on your audio drivers. Here's what it looks like on my system, but if you don't see it, see if your sound card offers separate drivers or another audio tool that has an equalizer built-in. Many do, you just need to check your manufacturer's web site.

1. Open Sound ControlsGo to Start > Control Panel > Sounds. That looks like this on Windows 7:

2. Doubleclick the Active Sound DeviceYou have some music playing, right? If not, start some, using whatever application you want. Once it's playing, you'll see little green bars light up next to the thing that is playing your music. Double-click that.

3. Click EnhancementsNow you're in the control panel for output you use for music. Click the Enhancements tab to bring up a bunch of options:

4. Check the Equalizer boxLike so:

5. Choose a PresetWith some soundcards, you can access a graphic equalizer like the ones your Mac friends use. On my fairly standard HP box, you can only choose presets. To find out how they sound right as you select them, check "Immediate mode," and then start trying the presets:

If I were you, I'd try that "Custom" setting too; on my box, nothing happens, but I have seen evidence that it works on other Windows machines. Either way, you have now set an EQ setting globally, across your entire PC, once you hit the OK button.

On a Mac

The keys to this bit of musical magic are entirely free software: Soundflower from Cycling74, makers of the amazing Max/MSP software, which lets smart people build neat stuff (including an NES danceclub visualizer, a heartbeat-driven "Call Me Maybe" controller, a city-remixing taxicab, and invisible dubstep instruments); and AU Lab, from Apple itself.

Here's how to use Soundflower and AU Lab to control sound equalization globally:

1. Install SoundflowerThis part is easy—just grab the most recent .dmg file for your system. Click it after it downloads to install it, just as you would any other Mac software from the web.

2. Install AU LabNow, you'll need Apple's AU Lab software (.zip file).

3. Restart Your MacYou know the drill.

4. Turn Your Volume All The Way UpBefore you monkey around with the rest of this stuff, turn up the volume all the way with headphones plugged in. Then do it again without headphones plugged in. Once you complete this process, the volume will get controlled at the next part in the chain, so if you start out too quiet, you won't be able to get back to top volume.

5. Make Your Mac Output to SoundflowerThe beauty of Soundflower is that your Mac thinks it's an audio output, which, in a sense, it is. To set up your Mac to route all sounds to Soundflower, go to System Preferences > Sound, and choose the two-channel Soundflower option:

6. Make AU Lab Input from SoundflowerGo to Applications > Utilities, and double-click AU Lab to open the program. Now, you just need to set the input to Soundflower, like so, and then click Create Document:

7. Add EqualizationNow you can see under the hood of AU Lab, which can add a wide array of effects to your sound. Unless you want to experiment with the rest of them, proceed directly to AUGraphicEQ, and select it as an Effect in Audio 1.

8. Tweak ItAU Lab defaults to giving you 31 bands of equalization, which allows for fine tuning—probably too fine, for most purposes.

You'll probably want to switch to the 10-Band equalizer instead using that dropdown button to the lower left. Here's what that looks like with the bass frequency sliders dragged up for more low-end:

Sometimes this can make the sound a bit distorted, so instead of raising the bass, you could alternatively lower everything else instead, and turn up your volume. When you're done, you can save it as a preset like this:

Now, every sound your computermakes will be EQ-ed just how you like it. And if you followed Step 4, you'll still be able to use your volume keys to reach your Mac's top and bottom volume levels. (If you skipped that, you can go back and change it after the fact.)

Enjoy!

How To: Equalize Your Computer for iTunes, Spotify, and Everything Else⎪evolver.fm

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Evolver.fm editor Eliot Van Buskirk has covered and occasionally anticipated music and technology intersections for CNET, MP3.com, McGraw-Hill, Wired, The Echo Nest and other outlets full-time since 1997. He regularly appears on NPR, and his Evolver.fm articles are currently syndicated to Gizmodo, Wired, Time, Billboard, Hypebot, Huffington Post, Drowned In Sound, MTV O Awards blog, MidemBlog, and other outlets. He plays music and rides a bicycle just about anywhere.