Yea idk why computers are made to be this complicated lol.. anyway i clone one hdd to bigger hdd but i try to boot from bigger hdd and it’s not working also can’t use the rest of the bigger hdd memory unless i allocate it and then it only allocated half the full hdd and won’t let me allocate the rest of it.. not simple. Not easy 😩
*** IMPORTANT NOTE HERE *** I just wanted to add that I did clone an Hybrid Drive ( Firecuda ) that had 450 GB used out of 2 tb onto a new 1TB MVNE. The software works if the source Drive is larger than the destination drive. The only thing that matters is the total amount of data you transfer has to be smaller than the destination. I was doubtfull because of the information in the video saying that the sources has to be smaller than the destination but I went on and it worked. So yeah, 2TB firecuda to 1TB EVO 970 MVNe works unless your data is smaller than the destination. Cheers!!
Brian, you can clone to a smaller disk pretty easily, by manually dragging the partitions across to the new disk, but when you come to the main C: partition (or any other main partition), you simply alter the size to accommodate the rest of the smaller hidden system partitions. I've done it several times for my own customers, and once you get the hang of it, it's quite easy to do. BTW I've used Macrium for years and it's never let me down in restoring a corrupt system etc. Great software, highly recommended, which I always install on customers machines for daily or weekly drive imaging behind the scenes.
I was going to suggest the same thing. The other issue is if Cloning to a larger drive. This operation is not as simple. So far with MR8 they've added some new options, which I haven't totally figured out yet. But basically with newer installs on Win10 and Win11 MS now puts the Recovery partition as the last partition. This becomes an issue when Cloning to a larger drive. Because now you have to enlarge the OS partition to adjust for the larger size of the new drive your Cloning too but also have to leave enough space for the very small Recovery partition. The adjustments for this are kinda sensitive under MR8. MR7 was much easier. Nevertheless Cloning to a larger drive is not such an easy task.
Can I make a clone from cloned disk? Looks like it should work? I have situation where I want to update my laptop that has 256 Gb SSD with 1 Tb SSD and also I want to add Sata SSD as there is empty space for it. I don't want buy any adapters and so on. Can I install new Sata SSD, clone from main 256 Gb SSD, then remove that 256 Gb SSD and insert new 1Tb SSD and clone the system to the new 1 Tb SSD from Sata SSD? I'll use Sata SSD as sort of transferring media for OS cloning. So I'll have new 1Tb SSD with OS and additional Sata SSD for say, storage as I don't want HHD to be there as it slows down the system. The reason I'm asking is that I haven't been lucky cloning the OS to an external HDD to test if I can boot from external media to make update that I explained above and then I found some explanation in internet that in many laptops you need to connect the storage to the motherboard internally to be able to successfully clone the disk and make the clone bootable.
@@ildafons A clone is just that - a perfect copy of the original, so yes you can clone away as many times as you want. There are other free cloning programs out there too, but as I install MR on all machines anyway, I always use that.
Fabulous walkthrough. Building my 1st home server mostly from spare parts and decided that 1TB was never ever going to cut it. So I grabbed a Black Friday deal on a couple Ironwolf 8TB drives and this is working great as we speak. Many thanks!
Thanks! I went from a 256 GB SSD source drive to a 1T M.2 SSD drive. I didn't realize that it would limit my destination drive to 256 GB, but I formatted the unallocated space in windows start right click > disk management to a new (F:) partition within the copied cloned drive, so back to normal! I made my M.2 my boot drive but have yet no difference in speed or overall performance. It's the more advanced M.2 NVME, versus my 256, which is SATA, so maybe I will still see a performance upgrade with heavy audio/video applications.
Your SATA drive slows down the system a bit as computer always call for that sata disc during its work. I had the same situation but even worse when installed HDD in addition to the main SSD. My laptop slowered a lot! Your situation is not that bad! :)
Macrium is great software! I would love to see more tutorials on what else it does! I heard you can drag and drop and resize petitions to a smaller drive. Would love to see how you can use all of these other features. I use this software to keep a backup drive in case the one in my computer fails.
Sir, I used this method word for word. Thank you. I had the phone and PC going the whole time and studied , great Vidio and great teaching mentor for me to follow. Now I don't know because this is a new system and I'm a rookie but my clone is shutting down every hour or so. Might you know what's going on? . I don't think the original had this snag and I will swap them out but in the mean time it will drive me nuts. Thank you , I had followed another UA-cam Vidio studying it for days to get the courage to attempt cloning and there sight had went pay sight and for 1 drive I found yours and it was great. Bob H
Great Video as usual. Make sure the drive you want to clone is not encrypted otherwise it will fail. You have to decrypt first. You can reduce the partition size using Partition Magic (free).😀👍
Great video Brian!!! I get ask often which software is best to use for cloning hard drives and are they easy to use?. After viewing this video i will recommend people to watch this video on how to clone a hard drive easily and free.
@@RoyBlumenthal i can't get my CPU on bios with hotkey. And when i go through the troubleshoot way to the EU i or whatever that is and restart, the bios comes up but the cursor won't move smh
Thank you for video! Question: I have 1TB SSD on my laptop with only 200GB occupied. Can I take 500GB hdd and create a snapshot of my 1TB on it? Thank you!
Thanks so much! alot of these other programs will "claim" to be free or have a free trial then when you try to use their features it sends you to a pay wall. great video !!`
Thank you very much for this well elaborated and well explained step by step video. There are not very many like you to help ordinary people. You saved me lot of time and money. Thank you for sharing and educating. Keep it up. I liked your video.
the problem that I faced is that I can clone the OS partitions, but the recovery and the OEM partitions can't be clone successfully, do you have any ideas?
PLS HELP: I have a 1TB hard disk which has 400gb data.it has two partitions.A c drive drive with 220gb which include os and all apps and a new volume d drive which has 180gb data which has some folders in it.I want to clone the c drive to an ssd completely (220gb full along with apps) since the it has only 250 gb data and make it bootable.So while selecting the partitions to be cloned, if i dont select the d drive partition will it work properly and still make it bootable?
Sir, Thank you this worked for the same size ssds. My first time i did this and was quite worried all the way through but followed you completely.. Thank you. But I did read a comment on cloaning a smaller drive to a larger drive is more problematic. I just ordered a larger drive and have to do this again but small to big. Sir am I looking at anything differently than you just showed me?. Thanks again Bob
Hmm Brian I would do this for my laptop but I would have to use an external adaptor to do it as taking the laptop apart is such a pain. Now in the past, I have found using Macrium to be quite confusing to use and have gone over to AOMEI software and find it easier to image and clone but even so I would still need that adaptor for another drive.
Assuming you source drive is not full, you shouldn't you be able to shrink (in Windows) the source drive, if your total data is smaller than the destination drive?
I have a laptop i program inside and out to run the way i want... Is posible to make an exact clone harddrive and put it in a regular desktop computer? Will it boot?
After cloning with Macrium Reflect I get a blue screen error. Inaccessible boot device. Whereas, the Samsung data migration software works a charm. The only problem is the Samsung software can only be used with Samsung drives.
Idk if this will help but I’ve had a few drives cloned for me by my buddy who is a computer genius and he told me that the new hard drive that I am installing needs to be the same size or bigger and he has even had problems where he got the same size drive and had issues cloning but after getting a bigger hard drive it worked.
Am I right in assuming, Brian, you were cloning to a spare USB-connected drive on your PC/laptop? Could you, if you wanted, simply clone a C:\ drive on one laptop directly linked to another spare laptop's C:\ drive (to keep laptop #2 as a duplicate), if the HDD on #2 was the same or larger than #1?
I think cloning your "master" drive is a very good idea as if you suddenly realize that you cannot boot your computer and thus work from home, then you are in for a big headache.
My home PC is eight years old. If I bought a new PC and cloned its hard drive from the old PC, would I then be able to reinstall the cloned new hard drive into the new PC and go forward with a working replica of the old PC, except on brand-new hardware? Or is it much more complicated than that, which I suspect is the answer?
So if I understand this....I can make a copy of my SSD drive onto a USB thumb drive the same size or bigger and if my SSD fails I can use the USB copy of it to reinstate another SSD drive that I would buy to replace the old bad SSD drive. Using the software on the back up USB drive to retore things I would be back up and running. Correct?
Hi Brian, what if my old ssd is on Windows 10 and I’m transferring it to a Windows 11 laptop, does it matter? I recently bought a laptop and would like to clone my old files from my pc to my new laptop.
I have a hard drive that lost or damaged the boot sector. I changed it with a new one and installed windows on it with some programs that I could get the codes to register them. I can look at the old drive using a usb connection. Is there any chance of me being able to reinstall windows without damaging the programs? I don’t have the disks for the programs.
HELP - I didn't see in the video if you can remove the old boot drive from system and move the new boot drive to the original's slot on motherboard after data transfer is complete. This will be a NVME to NVME transfer. Is there a process other than just moving them? Thanks for any assistance in this matter.
About encrypted disk.. I need to clone my 6TB WD My Book USB external drive to another USB drive of the same size .. Can I do that with this software ? MyBook ext drives use inner hardware encryption to avoid replacing the internal drive for another HHD brand.
I've always wondered, when cloning windows, will it also save or clone the drivers for your hardware you have set up in your pc i.e. device manager not full of yellow marks and so on. Thanks for the vid.
Will this clone the full drive or just the space that is used, if I clone a 100gb dive and olny 20gb has been use can I copy the data the data to an 80gb if this makes sense thanks
That's nice, I have taken a copy of my system to a new NVeM drive but coling has made the new drive to apear only to to source size, I have to extend the new drive size from system tools. But how about cloning a large but empty C drive to a smaller that can fit all data? Anyway happy new year dude.
What's the best way to save all images to a USB flash drive, as drag and drop takes ages, as I want to transfer all images all at the same time, as I cannot do this, and any help would be very much appreciated.
I have an empty 1tb harddrive has only windows 10 and I want to move windows to a 64gb msata ssd and install another ssd and use the 1tb harddrive for storage is there a way to do this thanks
Does this work only for Windows hard drives or any type of format works? Let's say, I have a mechanical hard drive on my Playstation 4 and I just bought a bigger SSD drive. Can I simply just copy the HDD to SSD and simply pop the SSD into the PS4?
I have a question good sir, I have a 250GB ssd and I cloned it onto a 4GB nvme, when I did, it partitioned a volume with 240GB only! I want it to clone and have the same empty space with it. Can I do that?
So, when I click on your link for Macrium I only get free trial, not free to use. And I don't get the links or webpage where it shows any free version of this software. So maybe check the link that you put in the description because that link only has trials, not free versions of this software.
I understand when the OS drive is on, data keep changing, so I am not sure how it can be a perfect clone of the the OS drive... What about that Shutdown option: does it clone while the PC is "shut down"? I thought for a perfect clone of the OS drive that drive should not be in use...
You can set it up to only add newer or changed files our you can recopy everything. On my computer I just do an incremental backup. And I also do a complete clone every few months to another SSD in case the one in my computer fails.
What happened to mini partition tool I used that last year at my internship to clone drives please do a updated vid on it for 2022!. Thanks man I am trying to catch up on your content again.
EurekaRecycler Good video !When i downloaded MR " free" and went through the steps the program did not appear, I kept trying it about 3 times but it did not appear. what's wrong? Also i tried PW Mini Tool to do this but it seemed to copy my original and put the files on the original drive and filled it up. what did i do wrong. How do I find the copied files and dump them? Thank you
Thanks For The Cloned Card My Dogg *DAWGGOAT* I Almost Went Crazy Cuz Of Yo Card😂 When Atm Approved The Card And Start Throwing Da Amount I Click On Out.. You Just Got Yourself Another Long Term Business Customer
So i made my clone from a 300gb hdd to a 4tb hdd but after it finished it just had the 4tb the same as the other drive like the 4tb didn’t exist. Im highly confused
Nvm, I got it sorted finally!! All you have to do is click on the Copy Partitions option next to Erase Disk and choose "Shrink or extend to fill the target disk" and that should clone and have the space allocated with it.
I have a 2015 Mac Book Pro running Windows 10 via Boot Camp. The system disk is a 1TB NVME M.2 SSD. I would like to back up the entire SSD with all its partitions/data etc to an external 2Tb mechanical hard drive. Later I could clone the mechanical hard drive to a new SSD should the current SSD fail. Does anyone know if this will work with the Mac/Windows combination?
I'm hoping this program helps because I tried 1 other cloning program and although I've tried twice, it seemed the computer wouldn't bootup to the new SSD drive. But I'm hoping the program isn't the culprit.
that software is good one i had using like in 2015 when it was version 5.x to 8.x which is worted to buy a lisence, i often use it to make image of the OS drive before updating windows or upgrading to new win 10 build it save me several time, only it take 10 min to restore the image.
What about if I'm cloning a drive with oem windows and installing the cloned drive to newly build pc will there be any problems, awesome video and explanation.
That is exactly what I did and the new computer booted right up without any problems! I copied my operating system from my old hard drive on my old computer to a SSD using a USB adapter. Plugged it into a new computer I built and it booted right up and installed all the new drivers and everything. Not one problem at all.
@Neal Hart thanks 😊 now I can clone the driver and put the drive in the new pc. I hate reinstalling new windows, and having to install all the software again is frustrating.
I just did it, went from a 240gb sata to 1tb nvme. It worked, but the disk management won't let me extend the rest of my unallocated space on the same drive letter. I hope I can figure it out soon, or someone here knows how to help. Edit- I got everything to work after 3 hours and lots of youtube videos. pain in the ass but everything seems to work well. Thank you for the amazing video
With this software I was unable to make bootable clone of Win11 from internal SSD to external HDD connected via USB on my laptop, I tried this way as a test. I think it can work with most desktops easier but not for all laptops. I think I need to insert new, say SATA3 SSD, internally connect it to laptop and then clone from old SSD to a new SATA 3 SSD that is connected internally and this might work out. Need to test it this way.
I bought yesterday Macrium Reflect 8 Home Edition, and did a clone from my ssd, primary drive with windows 10 and some games, to a hdd in the same pc. The clone itself was a success, but I m seeing my original drive working slower. Is that normal? Cloning software affect source drive?
This may seem silly to some of you,... but I don't have the experience in some of these things that some of you do. I got a new 2TB SSD for one of my PCs to replace its 250GB SSD which is nearly full. I intend to clone the old 250GB SSD to the new 2TB SSD and replace it in the PC that had the 250GB SSD. The PC that will then have the 2TB SDD also has a 3TB HDD with 864GB free. Additionally, I want to take the old 250GB SSD and put it in another PC that only has a 1TB HDD because it's real slow now with the demands of today's software. I was planning to take this to the shop to have this done for me... I'm figuring with little experience with something like this something is bound to go wrong. Can I use Macrium to make a clone of the 250GB SSD to the 3TB HDD currently on the first PC using Macrium which would be running from the operating system on the 250GB drive its cloning to the 3TB HDD? Or, would I need to run Macrium from an operating system on a flash drive or something? There's no operating system on the 3TB HDD, it's just used for all the data, like Documents, Downloads, etc.
I really love your Videos man thanks, But I have problem Cloning my ssd using Macrium, after I change the Ssd to laptop, there is a Error 0xc000.. which is boot error, What Should I do Before Replacing the ssd sir?
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Do you know how to see current password on computer without changing it?(windows 10)
non booting
no good wanted to move my 128 gb ssd main drive to TB ssd but this wont work
hrm so i could if i had a 150 gb c drive ssd clone to a TB NVME SSD and hten use it as main drive
Thank you Brian!
Yea idk why computers are made to be this complicated lol.. anyway i clone one hdd to bigger hdd but i try to boot from bigger hdd and it’s not working also can’t use the rest of the bigger hdd memory unless i allocate it and then it only allocated half the full hdd and won’t let me allocate the rest of it.. not simple. Not easy 😩
Just when I started having problems with my hard drive you upload this... I think this means I should do something about it right now.
Do it before its to late.
@@Britec09 Thank you for your help. Keep up the amazing content :)
@@Britec09 well guess what happened
*** IMPORTANT NOTE HERE ***
I just wanted to add that I did clone an Hybrid Drive ( Firecuda ) that had 450 GB used out of 2 tb onto a new 1TB MVNE. The software works if the source Drive is larger than the destination drive. The only thing that matters is the total amount of data you transfer has to be smaller than the destination.
I was doubtfull because of the information in the video saying that the sources has to be smaller than the destination but I went on and it worked. So yeah, 2TB firecuda to 1TB EVO 970 MVNe works unless your data is smaller than the destination.
Cheers!!
Brian, you can clone to a smaller disk pretty easily, by manually dragging the partitions across to the new disk, but when you come to the main C: partition (or any other main partition), you simply alter the size to accommodate the rest of the smaller hidden system partitions. I've done it several times for my own customers, and once you get the hang of it, it's quite easy to do. BTW I've used Macrium for years and it's never let me down in restoring a corrupt system etc. Great software, highly recommended, which I always install on customers machines for daily or weekly drive imaging behind the scenes.
Yes, you can drag and drop, you can also resize and do loads of other things with the software.
I was going to suggest the same thing. The other issue is if Cloning to a larger drive. This operation is not as simple. So far with MR8 they've added some new options, which I haven't totally figured out yet. But basically with newer installs on Win10 and Win11 MS now puts the Recovery partition as the last partition. This becomes an issue when Cloning to a larger drive. Because now you have to enlarge the OS partition to adjust for the larger size of the new drive your Cloning too but also have to leave enough space for the very small Recovery partition. The adjustments for this are kinda sensitive under MR8. MR7 was much easier.
Nevertheless Cloning to a larger drive is not such an easy task.
Can I make a clone from cloned disk? Looks like it should work? I have situation where I want to update my laptop that has 256 Gb SSD with 1 Tb SSD and also I want to add Sata SSD as there is empty space for it. I don't want buy any adapters and so on. Can I install new Sata SSD, clone from main 256 Gb SSD, then remove that 256 Gb SSD and insert new 1Tb SSD and clone the system to the new 1 Tb SSD from Sata SSD? I'll use Sata SSD as sort of transferring media for OS cloning. So I'll have new 1Tb SSD with OS and additional Sata SSD for say, storage as I don't want HHD to be there as it slows down the system. The reason I'm asking is that I haven't been lucky cloning the OS to an external HDD to test if I can boot from external media to make update that I explained above and then I found some explanation in internet that in many laptops you need to connect the storage to the motherboard internally to be able to successfully clone the disk and make the clone bootable.
@@ildafons A clone is just that - a perfect copy of the original, so yes you can clone away as many times as you want. There are other free cloning programs out there too, but as I install MR on all machines anyway, I always use that.
Fabulous walkthrough. Building my 1st home server mostly from spare parts and decided that 1TB was never ever going to cut it. So I grabbed a Black Friday deal on a couple Ironwolf 8TB drives and this is working great as we speak. Many thanks!
It worked perfectly! I'm now running off a 2TB SSD! Thank you for this video!
Thanks! I went from a 256 GB SSD source drive to a 1T M.2 SSD drive. I didn't realize that it would limit my destination drive to 256 GB, but I formatted the unallocated space in windows start right click > disk management to a new (F:) partition within the copied cloned drive, so back to normal! I made my M.2 my boot drive but have yet no difference in speed or overall performance. It's the more advanced M.2 NVME, versus my 256, which is SATA, so maybe I will still see a performance upgrade with heavy audio/video applications.
Your SATA drive slows down the system a bit as computer always call for that sata disc during its work. I had the same situation but even worse when installed HDD in addition to the main SSD. My laptop slowered a lot! Your situation is not that bad! :)
Thanks, this helped me out a lot since I wasn't sure what to do when I saw the same thing happen to my drive. /:
Does not appear they have a free version anymore?
On 2024-February-01 the free version was available as a 30 day free trial.
Macrium is great software! I would love to see more tutorials on what else it does! I heard you can drag and drop and resize petitions to a smaller drive. Would love to see how you can use all of these other features. I use this software to keep a backup drive in case the one in my computer fails.
How strange! Yesterday I was looking on how to clone a hard disk and voila a video from you about it. ✌️
Thanks a lot
Glad I could help!
Sir,
I used this method word for word. Thank you. I had the phone and PC going the whole time and studied , great Vidio and great teaching mentor for me to follow. Now I don't know because this is a new system and I'm a rookie but my clone is shutting down every hour or so. Might you know what's going on? . I don't think the original had this snag and I will swap them out but in the mean time it will drive me nuts.
Thank you , I had followed another UA-cam Vidio studying it for days to get the courage to attempt cloning and there sight had went pay sight and for 1 drive I found yours and it was great.
Bob H
This is very helpful, thank you Britec! It took me a while to search for the right software to clone my m.2.
Did it work?
@@redangrybird7564 yes, it worked.
Great Video as usual. Make sure the drive you want to clone is not encrypted otherwise it will fail. You have to decrypt first. You can reduce the partition size using Partition Magic (free).😀👍
Great video Brian!!! I get ask often which software is best to use for cloning hard drives and are they easy to use?. After viewing this video i will recommend people to watch this video on how to clone a hard drive easily and free.
Can't beat free
This works well. I did not knwo this tool and found your video to the point. Keep helping!
Did you use the free trial version?
And how much time for the trial
Another great job. Thank you so much for continuing to produce high quality informative videos.
Thanks for this. Came at exactly the right moment. Replacing a normal HDD with an SSD right now. Thanks for the help.
How did it go? I'm doing it now as we speak
Went perfectly.
@@RoyBlumenthal i can't get my CPU on bios with hotkey. And when i go through the troubleshoot way to the EU i or whatever that is and restart, the bios comes up but the cursor won't move smh
Thank you for video!
Question:
I have 1TB SSD on my laptop with only 200GB occupied. Can I take 500GB hdd and create a snapshot of my 1TB on it?
Thank you!
Thanks so much! alot of these other programs will "claim" to be free or have a free trial then when you try to use their features it sends you to a pay wall. great video !!`
Thanks for the video.
Once your done cloning how do you reformat the old SSD to use for storage ?
im running cloning right now from ssd to nvme gen4 with your instructions thanks again
Thank you very much for this well elaborated and well explained step by step video. There are not very many like you to help ordinary people. You saved me lot of time and money. Thank you for sharing and educating. Keep it up. I liked your video.
the problem that I faced is that I can clone the OS partitions, but the recovery and the OEM partitions can't be clone successfully, do you have any ideas?
PLS HELP:
I have a 1TB hard disk which has 400gb data.it has two partitions.A c drive drive with 220gb which include os and all apps and a new volume d drive which has 180gb data which has some folders in it.I want to clone the c drive to an ssd completely (220gb full along with apps) since the it has only 250 gb data and make it bootable.So while selecting the partitions to be cloned, if i dont select the d drive partition will it work properly and still make it bootable?
Very good and explained in depth. Thank you
I just used it yesterday 😍
Nice
Worked like a charm, thanks
Sir,
Thank you this worked for the same size ssds. My first time i did this and was quite worried all the way through but followed you completely.. Thank you.
But I did read a comment on cloaning a smaller drive to a larger drive is more problematic. I just ordered a larger drive and have to do this again but small to big.
Sir am I looking at anything differently than you just showed me?.
Thanks again Bob
Hmm Brian I would do this for my laptop but I would have to use an external adaptor to do it as taking the laptop apart is such a pain. Now in the past, I have found using Macrium to be quite confusing to use and have gone over to AOMEI software and find it easier to image and clone but even so I would still need that adaptor for another drive.
Assuming you source drive is not full, you shouldn't you be able to shrink (in Windows) the source drive, if your total data is smaller than the destination drive?
This worked perfectly for me! Thanks for your help!
I have a laptop i program inside and out to run the way i want... Is posible to make an exact clone harddrive and put it in a regular desktop computer? Will it boot?
Hey! I just finished doing a clone and the new hard drive was about 200 gigs shorter. Any idea what that could be?
After cloning with Macrium Reflect I get a blue screen error. Inaccessible boot device. Whereas, the Samsung data migration software works a charm. The only problem is the Samsung software can only be used with Samsung drives.
Never had that issue.
Idk if this will help but I’ve had a few drives cloned for me by my buddy who is a computer genius and he told me that the new hard drive that I am installing needs to be the same size or bigger and he has even had problems where he got the same size drive and had issues cloning but after getting a bigger hard drive it worked.
Just used this method. Thank you so much.
Am I right in assuming, Brian, you were cloning to a spare USB-connected drive on your PC/laptop? Could you, if you wanted, simply clone a C:\ drive on one laptop directly linked to another spare laptop's C:\ drive (to keep laptop #2 as a duplicate), if the HDD on #2 was the same or larger than #1?
No, both NVMe Gen 4 were installed into the motherboard
Thanks for this! Liked! 👍
You're welcome
Beautiful. No need for a restart while in between operations like in Mini Tool or Acronis?
Thanks and Happy New Year.👍👍🎇🎇
After you clone your disc and change your boot drive to it, how do you get rid of the windows install that was on your original Boot Drive C:?
You could format it with a Linux live USB. Best to make sure that you know what you’re doing. Have you confirmed that the cloned HDD is a known good?
I think cloning your "master" drive is a very good idea as if you suddenly realize that you cannot boot your computer and thus work from home, then you are in for a big headache.
My home PC is eight years old. If I bought a new PC and cloned its hard drive from the old PC, would I then be able to reinstall the cloned new hard drive into the new PC and go forward with a working replica of the old PC, except on brand-new hardware? Or is it much more complicated than that, which I suspect is the answer?
So if I understand this....I can make a copy of my SSD drive onto a USB thumb drive the same size or bigger and if my SSD fails I can use the USB copy of it to reinstate another SSD drive that I would buy to replace the old bad SSD drive. Using the software on the back up USB drive to retore things I would be back up and running. Correct?
Hi Brian, what if my old ssd is on Windows 10 and I’m transferring it to a Windows 11 laptop, does it matter? I recently bought a laptop and would like to clone my old files from my pc to my new laptop.
I dont know why but everyone seemed to have made it so you have to pay for this. Thank you! :D
Question, I want to create a clone on an EXTERNAL SSD. Do I need to create a Rescue Media flash drive or can I boot from the (external) clone? Thanks!
I have a hard drive that lost or damaged the boot sector. I changed it with a new one and installed windows on it with some programs that I could get the codes to register them.
I can look at the old drive using a usb connection. Is there any chance of me being able to reinstall windows without damaging the programs? I don’t have the disks for the programs.
HELP - I didn't see in the video if you can remove the old boot drive from system and move the new boot drive to the original's slot on motherboard after data transfer is complete. This will be a NVME to NVME transfer. Is there a process other than just moving them? Thanks for any assistance in this matter.
thank you so much now i have a small drive that has only a little gb but now i have more gb thanks!
i follwed the instrucions but when done it took all the space of my 1tb no idea what happened then within it made made another drive
About encrypted disk.. I need to clone my 6TB WD My Book USB external drive to another USB drive of the same size .. Can I do that with this software ? MyBook ext drives use inner hardware encryption to avoid replacing the internal drive for another HHD brand.
Amazing video ! Thanks !
I've always wondered, when cloning windows, will it also save or clone the drivers for your hardware you have set up in your pc i.e. device manager not full of yellow marks and so on. Thanks for the vid.
im trying to get a copy of my drive to use autopsy on to recover deleted files would this be a good method for that?
Will this clone the full drive or just the space that is used, if I clone a 100gb dive and olny 20gb has been use can I copy the data the data to an 80gb if this makes sense thanks
That's nice, I have taken a copy of my system to a new NVeM drive but coling has made the new drive to apear only to to source size, I have to extend the new drive size from system tools. But how about cloning a large but empty C drive to a smaller that can fit all data? Anyway happy new year dude.
How would this work if the source drive was Bitlocker encrypted? Would the source drive need to have Bitlocker turned off first before cloning?
What's the best way to save all images to a USB flash drive, as drag and drop takes ages, as I want to transfer all images all at the same time, as I cannot do this, and any help would be very much appreciated.
the cloning of hard drive to SSD is no longer free
I have an empty 1tb harddrive has only windows 10 and I want to move windows to a 64gb msata ssd and install another ssd and use the 1tb harddrive for storage is there a way to do this thanks
Does this work only for Windows hard drives or any type of format works? Let's say, I have a mechanical hard drive on my Playstation 4 and I just bought a bigger SSD drive. Can I simply just copy the HDD to SSD and simply pop the SSD into the PS4?
My new drive isn't showing up in the boot bios
I have a question good sir,
I have a 250GB ssd and I cloned it onto a 4GB nvme, when I did, it partitioned a volume with 240GB only! I want it to clone and have the same empty space with it. Can I do that?
worked for me very well, thanks.
So, when I click on your link for Macrium I only get free trial, not free to use. And I don't get the links or webpage where it shows any free version of this software. So maybe check the link that you put in the description because that link only has trials, not free versions of this software.
I understand when the OS drive is on, data keep changing, so I am not sure how it can be a perfect clone of the the OS drive... What about that Shutdown option: does it clone while the PC is "shut down"? I thought for a perfect clone of the OS drive that drive should not be in use...
If you schedule a clone every week, does the program only overwrite the newer files created or does it perform a complete clone every week?
You can set it up to only add newer or changed files our you can recopy everything. On my computer I just do an incremental backup. And I also do a complete clone every few months to another SSD in case the one in my computer fails.
What happened to mini partition tool
I used that last year at my internship to clone drives please do a updated vid on it for 2022!. Thanks man I am trying to catch up on your content again.
Awesome! cheers Brian.
Awesome thanks this is a very useful tutorial 👍 appreciate.
Glad you liked it
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Good video !When i downloaded MR " free" and went through the steps the program did not appear, I kept trying it about 3 times but it did not appear. what's wrong? Also i tried PW Mini Tool to do this but it seemed to copy my original and put the files on the original drive and filled it up. what did i do wrong. How do I find the copied files and dump them? Thank you
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How fast is this cloning?
Even with ssd to ssd most free offering only run 30Mbs which takes several hours.
So i made my clone from a 300gb hdd to a 4tb hdd but after it finished it just had the 4tb the same as the other drive like the 4tb didn’t exist. Im highly confused
Nvm, I got it sorted finally!! All you have to do is click on the Copy Partitions option next to Erase Disk and choose "Shrink or extend to fill the target disk" and that should clone and have the space allocated with it.
Great video thanks for this. How do i update to a larger M.2 Solid State Drive/SSD if i have only 1 slot. Is there an adapter ?
Same process
There are usb adapters available
I have a 2015 Mac Book Pro running Windows 10 via Boot Camp. The system disk is a 1TB NVME M.2 SSD. I would like to back up the entire SSD with all its partitions/data etc to an external 2Tb mechanical hard drive. Later I could clone the mechanical hard drive to a new SSD should the current SSD fail. Does anyone know if this will work with the Mac/Windows combination?
I followed the process but it aborted the cloning, giving error code 9. It just says I/O error. I can't seem to fix this.
I'm hoping this program helps because I tried 1 other cloning program and although I've tried twice, it seemed the computer wouldn't bootup to the new SSD drive. But I'm hoping the program isn't the culprit.
WOW, forgot about that one. I remember using an earlier version about 10 years ago (NOT being snarky, just seriously forgot about this)
that software is good one i had using like in 2015 when it was version 5.x to 8.x which is worted to buy a lisence, i often use it to make image of the OS drive before updating windows or upgrading to new win 10 build it save me several time, only it take 10 min to restore the image.
What about if I'm cloning a drive with oem windows and installing the cloned drive to newly build pc will there be any problems, awesome video and explanation.
That is exactly what I did and the new computer booted right up without any problems! I copied my operating system from my old hard drive on my old computer to a SSD using a USB adapter. Plugged it into a new computer I built and it booted right up and installed all the new drivers and everything. Not one problem at all.
@Neal Hart thanks 😊 now I can clone the driver and put the drive in the new pc. I hate reinstalling new windows, and having to install all the software again is frustrating.
Good guide as always
Glad you think so!
Great tutorial 👌 👍
macrium does not work for me. it keeps giving me error 9 . i cant find no fixes for it.
I’ll have to give this a go. I gave up trying to use it two years ago for a simpler program that is no longer free.
Very easy to do
I just did it, went from a 240gb sata to 1tb nvme. It worked, but the disk management won't let me extend the rest of my unallocated space on the same drive letter. I hope I can figure it out soon, or someone here knows how to help.
Edit- I got everything to work after 3 hours and lots of youtube videos. pain in the ass but everything seems to work well. Thank you for the amazing video
It's some "extended partition" concept you need to use at some point as a standard. "Primary partitions" are limited in numbers.
Did you use an internal drive, Brian? Can this work with an external drive? Thanks. BTW - Good video. :-)
I tried what all you have suggested. This message came up - Clone Failed- Error 8....................Can you help please
Brilliant, thank you Brian..
Very welcome
With this software I was unable to make bootable clone of Win11 from internal SSD to external HDD connected via USB on my laptop, I tried this way as a test. I think it can work with most desktops easier but not for all laptops. I think I need to insert new, say SATA3 SSD, internally connect it to laptop and then clone from old SSD to a new SATA 3 SSD that is connected internally and this might work out. Need to test it this way.
Thanks for sharing!
I'm looking for a good program that can get fail petition that has my data on it to move it to nother drive
Thanks
Welcome
I bought yesterday Macrium Reflect 8 Home Edition, and did a clone from my ssd, primary drive with windows 10 and some games, to a hdd in the same pc. The clone itself was a success, but I m seeing my original drive working slower. Is that normal? Cloning software affect source drive?
U just downgrade ur drive, ssd much better than hdd
@@laju5660 sorry i explained bad, I did a clone from one sata ssd to a m2 nvme. And now the problem is solved just with two or three pc restart.
Why cant you clone if your source is higher than the destination drive?
Can I clone to an external SSD drive like the Samsung T7?
This may seem silly to some of you,... but I don't have the experience in some of these things that some of you do. I got a new 2TB SSD for one of my PCs to replace its 250GB SSD which is nearly full. I intend to clone the old 250GB SSD to the new 2TB SSD and replace it in the PC that had the 250GB SSD. The PC that will then have the 2TB SDD also has a 3TB HDD with 864GB free. Additionally, I want to take the old 250GB SSD and put it in another PC that only has a 1TB HDD because it's real slow now with the demands of today's software. I was planning to take this to the shop to have this done for me... I'm figuring with little experience with something like this something is bound to go wrong. Can I use Macrium to make a clone of the 250GB SSD to the 3TB HDD currently on the first PC using Macrium which would be running from the operating system on the 250GB drive its cloning to the 3TB HDD? Or, would I need to run Macrium from an operating system on a flash drive or something? There's no operating system on the 3TB HDD, it's just used for all the data, like Documents, Downloads, etc.
Good one. This can also be done with Aomei Backupper, free version.
That is also free
Hello i want to make a backup of my hardisk ¿is there any way to do it without using a lot of space?
Hi brian is there a way to get win10 to read data off a 2tb fat32 external hdd ,
Thank you
Have you tried converting the drive to NTFS?
I really love your Videos man thanks, But I have problem Cloning my ssd using Macrium, after I change the Ssd to laptop, there is a Error 0xc000.. which is boot error, What Should I do Before Replacing the ssd sir?