I've always done this process manually but I got a new SSD for Christmas after some drinks.. decided I was feeling too litty and would try a cloning program. This worked flawlessly and took little effort. Thank you for your concise instructions and general swag.
I choose the automatically change and reboot option and it worked flawlessly. The new SSD was wired in but not partitioned. Used your steps. Rebooted PC. Worked fine, the new drive showed up as C, the old one as D. Shut down, removed the old one. Restarted. Worked like a charm. Shutdown and reconnected my other internal SSD as I only had 2 cables to connect the data and everything worked perfectly. Great tutorial.
I didn't, and I searched all the time for free methods, also asked AI. Nothing is free anymore (even if it always says so). But now finally I clicked on the right suggestion.
its from your phone. remember, youtube is also google. so, google listens everything you say from your phone mic. from that, it collects any data that they could use for ads or etc.
Hands down the best source/video to explain the OS migration process in an easy straight forward way without much hassle! and I have searched a lot and other sources/videos are very confusing! Thanks man.
Ive used this software before and its the easiest software for migration. Went from a 256gb gen 3 to a 1 TB gen 4 SSD, both were already inside my PC in separate NVME slots.
@corpuzlevi1595 yes, exactly. Everything the disk contains, is copied to the new disk. If you have an OS installed, it gets transfered to the new disk, wirh the license included.
I have been struggling with this process recently but this program is the first I’ve used that is actually free and simple to use. Thank you for the video, it worked perfectly upgrading my SSD to a larger one 👍
I have been watching your channel for years and years because I have always loved fiddling with computers. As I've gotten older my computers have gotten more and more expensive, so I always check your channel first before I make any decisions, so thank you for your content.
To anyone who needs to migrate windows into the new SSD, easily, fast and for free just follow this guide, the best among all of them! Thank you so much
Omg thanks mann this video helpsss! I been using a lot of clonning tools and all of them ddint work. I almost gave up and wanted to go to computer shop instead but i give this video one last try and it works!! Thanks mateee.
Just recently discovered and subscribed. You sir are a wealth of useful information and I have recommended your website/channel to many friends. Thank you!
Thanks for the video Brian. I have used Acronis to upgrade several computers from old mechanical drives to new SSDs. They are always amazed at the speed increase. I use the Acronis software to do daily backups as well. Their tech support is excellent too, I would add.
@@Britec09 Brian, I would not say that it has become bloated. They have added additional features such as antivirus / anti-malware. These added features are optional when Acronis is initially installed. Even the ransomware protection can be toggled off. I only use Windows Security with the Premium Malwarebytes so I elected not to install the additional programs. It's still one of the best backup solutions available.
@@kaileabarca7868 whoa, this is exactly what im trying to ask, after finished the process, can i delete the all files from migrated ssd. I think you didnt pick some option in migration process?
I download the Acronis cloning tool from the WD site. If it doesn't find a WD drive in the system then plug in a Sandisk USB stick to keep it happy. It's ridiculous that Microsoft don't have a tool to do this.
Good video as usual and timely. Wanted to save my 2010 laptop, which still runs good. I am going to guess, the operations are the same for non-OS drives' cloning. Off the topic, have you had a chance to make a video for Windows 11, similar to your "Things you need to disable in Windows 10 right now"? I liked the one stop shop explanation and has helped all my Win 10 pcs run effectively and efficiently.
@@Britec09Great Concise video for Disk Genius! My two questions are, if you have a 64bit system, should you obviously look for the 64bit disk genius?! & 2nd should 1 always expand the cloned "bigger" drive to the full volume or width for best migration?
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VID I don't know why, but cloning via Macrium give me a bluescreen error. Hell I even tried to install Windows 11 fresh directly on my new SSD through Rufus, some important drivers were missing. Did the same via thumb drive, encountered the same issue where important drivers were still missing. Spent half a day trying to get it to work and your video worked wonders on first try! Once again thank you so much for uploading this 🙏
Hey Brian, very usefull video, just had some questions. So, firstly, at 4:36 you extended the "system partition size" from 63.1 GB to the maximum size of the target disk. Why did you do this? I don't understand the point of extending the amount that will be clonded beyond the size of the source disk, since the amount that can be cloned can only go as high as the source disk. Is this something that is necessary when cloning the drive? Second, after cloning the drive and replacing it (with the target drive that was just cloned onto) for an upgrade, is it necessary to go into my system BIOS and change the computer boot sequence, or will the system automatically boot the correct drive (Have the correct boot order/sequence) since it's in the same slot? Thanks!
Because if you do, you'll have the whole new drive's space as your OS drive. If not, you'll need to create a new partition with the remaining empty space and use that as another logical drive.
@@kw0064 Ok, so it is necessary to extend the system partition size of the target disk, but what about my other question? Is it necessary to change the computer boot sequence in the system BIOS when replacing the cloned drive?
I had the exact same question and I don’t believe it was very well explained. So if I’m getting a new m.2 drive and I’m also putting in a sata. I wanna move windows to the sata so I can upgrade my m.2 why would I wanna use the full 1TB for windows ? I’m not getting that lol
@@Cyro2457 It's been a while, I'm surprised people are still seeing my comment but I have an answer. The reason you want to extend the cloned "system partition size" to the maximum size of the target disk, is because usually people will have their windows' software on the same partition as a whole bunch of other stuff. I, for example, have a 2 TB NVME ssd that has one single giant 2 TB storage partition, with somethin' like 50 gb or so taken up by the windows software. You absolutely don't need to partition the entire drive to a windows partition, but if you only allocate the minimum amount required to store what is on the drive you won't have any more space on that partition to store anything else. In other words, you either partition the entire drive all at once to create one single partition that can store your windows stuff and everything else you want on it. Or, you can partition the minimum amount, which will store everything properly, but you will need to create another partition immediately after for future storage use. The single partition is just how things are most commonly organized on Windows, since most people want to limit the amount of drive letters/separate drives they have to comb through when looking at their stuff. It technically is kinda explained in the video, but it could be done better and I hope this helps. Side note: If you're wondering about if you need to change anything in the computer boot sequence if you're replacing a cloned drive, don't worry about it, as you don't have to change anything like that if all you're doing is replacing a drive in the same slot, since your computer just boots based on the slot order or something. I don't really know how it works, I just know you only need to change the computer boot sequence if your boot drive is in a different slot from before.
@@francoisleveille409 never had an issue with chinese ssds, not nearly as risky as installing pirated software or poking the wrong e-mails or websites
So when all the migration has been done and your software is on the new ssd do I need to re-enter my passwords for example steam or games? Or does it just migrate an all is done? I built my PC which is the easy part for me but when it comes to software I’m a nervous wreck
Thanks, worked perfectly! I was a bit confused when the new drive wasn't available for boot in BIOS, turns out my motherboard has separate boot order settings for UEFI hard drives and I had to go there to choose the proper drive.
I did get Disk Genius with a view to doing exactly what the video suggests. Then, all the hoo ha around 24H2 piled in so I went the custom .iso route instead. Cloning would have allowed me to keep my existing Windows license (One advantage of a Microsoft account, which I had when I switched my email account from Hotmail to Outlook.), but hey, it is what it is and one way or another I'll have Windows the way I want it when I eventually build my new PC.
0:51 is it possible to clone os from older ssd(2.5inch) to secondary nvme m.2 without enclosure ,just via that cable...that way we could use win 8 and win 11 on one computer,laptop..?
So, I got a question. I had an ssd, in my laptop. I screwed something up, and the computer would no longer boot into Windows. The drive itself, is fine. If I were to clone it, to a different drive, would it still not boot into Windows? Thanks.
So you have both old and new ssd in the pc. Once you transfer windows you power down and then swap the new one in the old one spot and vise versa. Then boot and your new ssd should boot windows?
Diskgenius makes incremental backups, in case of problems with your DAW, you restore everything from the backup. Certainly there are other software that do incremental backups, but Diskgenius is easy to use
I assume that this procedure would work in exactly the same way if the target disk is a large capacity internal 3.5" SATA hard drive, e.g. WD, Barracuda, or similar?
It did clone to other drive, but it didnt empty the previous c drive. And previous c drive is still c drive. New cloned drive is still E drive, both of them have the same files. What should i do?
I was able to use Diskgenius to duplicate my windows drive without any problem. However when I tried to boot from the new drive, I got an error stating inaccessible boot device. Any advice please? 🙏
Perfect timing on this video doing this now. Question for you, I'm migrating from a 500GB SSD to a 2TB M.2 SSD, I'd like to still use that SSD for some additional storage afterwards. how would I go about wiping that drive?
Once you've moved over to the new M.2 SSD, let the system run for a few days to make sure that all is good and you really don't need to go back to the old SSD. This may be overkill, but safe is better than sorry. Then using Disk Management you can repartition and reformat the old SSD how you like. Be very careful that you are working on the right disk as there is essentially no going back from a repartition/reformat. Lost data is a bad feeling.
After the cloning process (I used Trial version of Macrium reflect), how do I go ahead and change the boot source? Struggling to find a good video on this!
A common use case is to migrate from a larger HDD to a smaller SSD. For example, your Mom's computer takes forever to boot up and it runs slow. Task Manager shows the disk process at 100%. It has a 2TB HDD but is only 10% full. You buy a 500GB SSD drive for $35 and migrate the old disk to it. Now the computer runs faster and she can access emails on AOL.
Tried to buy a new SSD because my current one for my system is at 66% life, but the new one doesn't show up in the boot options after I used Hasleo Disk Clone to clone windows. The SSD is an option for priority override, but not listed in normal boot options
Is it possible to have a separate drive just for video editing im wondering if this would reduce computer resources and keep a 2tb drive for the rest of the computer if so could or have you done a video thanks
Hi Brian, Thank you so much for the video. It works perfectly for me. I just want to ask, so after everything has completed and the laptop boot perfectly using the new SSD, I could format the old SSD right?
I stopped the process after about a minute because I didn't see target drive having the same files/sectors as the disk to be copied. Now I have an exclamation mark on my new drive and I keep getting errors and I can't proceed. I've tried to reformat the new drive and it keeps failing. Any help would be appreciated.
I've not been a daily Windows user for years now so be careful, but I'd guess that you need to delete the partitions on the new drive using Disk Management. This should get you back to a blank drive from where you can try again. If that doesn't work, you may need to create a new partition table (GPT for preference) after deleting stray partitions.
@@dingokidneys Under Disk Management and diskpart I reset the new SSD, but I need to learn the disk genius program better because that is where I keep running into problems. I really just didn't know enough to attempt this to begin with. Thanks for the help dingokidneys.
Thanks Brian this is something that I have been thinking of for some time now - cloning my 500GB PCIe express to a new 1TB PCIe express drive, and in the last I have used Macrium and AOMEI for doing this and frankly Macrium has never ever worked properly for me, and AOMEI has always been very "touchy" to use. Now I am assuming that I can clone to an external drive enclosure of course because the machine I am on is a one drive slot laptop? But anyway this software is the ducks guts by the looks of it and thanks again for a great tutorial as it is so easy to follow and by the looks of it to use this method😃😃👍👍👍👍
When I press OS migration it’s only giving me the option to select my local disk C (500gb) but I want to move it to my local disk D (1TB). Did I miss something or what
This may be a dumb question, but when you choose the Target Drive; why do you want want the Target Drive to use the whole drive instead of leaving the extra space you had? Sorry if I'm not explaining myself well.
i click on the os migration then a screen pops up saying before starting you can set a partition size on target disk but it doesnt allow me to do anything? the start button is greyed out.
So I'm getting a 2tb nvme and I wanna put windows on to this drive.... If I follow your steps all the way will I still have loads of space left on my new drive for games etc... Confused me when u changed the space to full
So i have a 1tb drive with windows and lots of games. I want a 500gb drive for my windows boot and the 1tb drive as storage and my game drive. Can I also just transfer the windows partition to the smaller drive and keep my 1tbs files intact?
is it possible to do this into my current hdd instead of having to buy a new adapter? the hdd is my secondary storage and my motherboard only has 1 slot of m.2
Thanks for this clear video! One question remains though: in my case, my copy of the original boot drive is called F:. As far as I understand, when redirecting my computer to boot from that F: drive will change it's name into C: and the original C-drive into F:? The video was not very clear on that imo. Thanks in advance for the answer!
groovy. just got a larger drive for windows and side programs. 500g to 1 TB, and then moving my games from that 1Tb to a 2Tb. Reformat the 1TB to drop my cloned windows 500g to it. use the 500g....somewhere else...lol Glad i saw this video. thanks
if my target disk has old data on it even though i have separated it into 2 partitions. The first partition is for old data and the second partition is for Windows migration. Will my first partition also be lost?
Are the games and everything you have on your previous hard drive cloned to the new one? Will everything in the new hard drive have the same files and games as the old one?
I have multiple partitions (C, D, E) in my present HDD and the C drive is around 480gb (236gb used). I want to migrate the os from this HDD to an SSD (500gb). If I just account the C drive in my HDD it is 236gb which is less than the SSD I want to transfer it to but if I also account the other drives on my HDD the data volume will exceed 500gb. I hope this is not a problem and the migration should still work and only clone the C drive instead of the whole HDD. Please clear this doubt for me so I can proceed to migrate my OS. Thanks :)
i have to upgrade mother board and cpu to be compatible with win 11.i have new 1 TB samsung evo plus NVMe there is no conection for this in old mother board ,how i have to copie ssd samsung 850 ,256 GB to that and how i have to boot that in new instaled motherboard ? or what would be easiest proces to do that? thanks.
Im havingnsome issues using this method. Its partitioning my drive into like 4 or 5 segments, limiting my access despite changing the settings to 2 partitions only.
What if my mains SSD is in my gen 4 slot and new ssd will be in the gen 3 slot. Do i clone with the nee ssd in the gen3 slot and after switch the slots? Or do i do this before.
I've always done this process manually but I got a new SSD for Christmas after some drinks.. decided I was feeling too litty and would try a cloning program. This worked flawlessly and took little effort. Thank you for your concise instructions and general swag.
I choose the automatically change and reboot option and it worked flawlessly. The new SSD was wired in but not partitioned. Used your steps. Rebooted PC. Worked fine, the new drive showed up as C, the old one as D. Shut down, removed the old one. Restarted. Worked like a charm. Shutdown and reconnected my other internal SSD as I only had 2 cables to connect the data and everything worked perfectly. Great tutorial.
so, do you deleted the all files in old ssd?
Crazy how I just got a new NVMe drive for my OS and immediately got this video recommended.
Shhh they are always watchin
if you think that is funny go on a car site for a couple of days and the you get car ads
They always will
I didn't, and I searched all the time for free methods, also asked AI. Nothing is free anymore (even if it always says so). But now finally I clicked on the right suggestion.
its from your phone. remember, youtube is also google. so, google listens everything you say from your phone mic. from that, it collects any data that they could use for ads or etc.
Finally, a video about this topic that wasn't released in the Stone Age.
Liked and subscribed 🙏
Literally 😭
Hands down the best source/video to explain the OS migration process in an easy straight forward way without much hassle! and I have searched a lot and other sources/videos are very confusing! Thanks man.
Excellent! Very clear and simple. Thanks, Brian!
Glad it was helpful!
Ive used this software before and its the easiest software for migration. Went from a 256gb gen 3 to a 1 TB gen 4 SSD, both were already inside my PC in separate NVME slots.
Yeah, works a treat
Yeah but this comes from China. Is it hidden malware ?
Keep removing my comment and ... destroying your reputation.
@@francoisleveille409?
Thank you so much, this was the message I was exactly looking for.
Thanks for the help! The process went smooth without any issues. Free, direct, no more information than needed!
sir does cloning mean it will clone the OS and the files and apps installed?
@corpuzlevi1595 yes, exactly. Everything the disk contains, is copied to the new disk. If you have an OS installed, it gets transfered to the new disk, wirh the license included.
I have been struggling with this process recently but this program is the first I’ve used that is actually free and simple to use. Thank you for the video, it worked perfectly upgrading my SSD to a larger one 👍
I have been watching your channel for years and years because I have always loved fiddling with computers. As I've gotten older my computers have gotten more and more expensive, so I always check your channel first before I make any decisions, so thank you for your content.
Awesome! I tried other videos but at the end I had to pay every time for the operation . Thanks a lot!
Omg thank you this is the video ive been looking for. All other tutorials sounds to complicated this the first the a bot like me understands cheers
To anyone who needs to migrate windows into the new SSD, easily, fast and for free just follow this guide, the best among all of them! Thank you so much
Awesome Brian. This is what I've been looking for.
Cheers bri, this came at the perfect time. 🎉
You're welcome
hey man thank you soooooooooo much. thou where the only one that could help over the hundreds of videos that i saw.. ur the best
Omg thanks mann this video helpsss! I been using a lot of clonning tools and all of them ddint work. I almost gave up and wanted to go to computer shop instead but i give this video one last try and it works!! Thanks mateee.
Just recently discovered and subscribed. You sir are a wealth of useful information and I have recommended your website/channel to many friends. Thank you!
Another very useful video. Thank you Brian!
My pleasure!
Thanks for the video Brian. I have used Acronis to upgrade several computers from old mechanical drives to new SSDs. They are always amazed at the speed increase. I use the Acronis software to do daily backups as well. Their tech support is excellent too, I would add.
Acronis become bloated
@@Britec09 Brian, I would not say that it has become bloated. They have added additional features such as antivirus / anti-malware. These added features are optional when Acronis is initially installed. Even the ransomware protection can be toggled off. I only use Windows Security with the Premium Malwarebytes so I elected not to install the additional programs. It's still one of the best backup solutions available.
Thank you.
Thanks for the donation 👍🍺
Thank you for this video! I already installed and clone everything in my new SSD!
Im having issue now. I deleted everything where I cloned. And now I can’t open my pc with an error. I need help
@@kaileabarca7868 whoa, this is exactly what im trying to ask, after finished the process, can i delete the all files from migrated ssd. I think you didnt pick some option in migration process?
really came in clutch thanks for the video!!!!
I download the Acronis cloning tool from the WD site. If it doesn't find a WD drive in the system then plug in a Sandisk USB stick to keep it happy. It's ridiculous that Microsoft don't have a tool to do this.
I've been following your advices for years. Truly Awesome, thank you ☺.
Out of all the videos I seen this is the best I watched everyone else taxing
My favorite way to backup my PC. If something catastrophic happens to your computer all you have to do is replace the drive.
Absolutely! same here.
First time I hear about this tool like and subscribed immediately
Good video as usual and timely. Wanted to save my 2010 laptop, which still runs good. I am going to guess, the operations are the same for non-OS drives' cloning.
Off the topic, have you had a chance to make a video for Windows 11, similar to your "Things you need to disable in Windows 10 right now"? I liked the one stop shop explanation and has helped all my Win 10 pcs run effectively and efficiently.
I make a video for you
@@Britec09Great Concise video for Disk Genius! My two questions are, if you have a 64bit system, should you obviously look for the 64bit disk genius?! & 2nd should 1 always expand the cloned "bigger" drive to the full volume or width for best migration?
Thanks
Thanks for the donation 👍🍺
Works perfectly.. I was struggling for solutions.. thanks mate 😊
Welcome
Thank you so much for this video! Made the process seamless. Much appreciated.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VID
I don't know why, but cloning via Macrium give me a bluescreen error.
Hell I even tried to install Windows 11 fresh directly on my new SSD through Rufus, some important drivers were missing. Did the same via thumb drive, encountered the same issue where important drivers were still missing.
Spent half a day trying to get it to work and your video worked wonders on first try! Once again thank you so much for uploading this 🙏
Great tool. Thanks Brian for video. 🙂
You are very welcome
Hey Brian, very usefull video, just had some questions.
So, firstly, at 4:36 you extended the "system partition size" from 63.1 GB to the maximum size of the target disk. Why did you do this? I don't understand the point of extending the amount that will be clonded beyond the size of the source disk, since the amount that can be cloned can only go as high as the source disk. Is this something that is necessary when cloning the drive?
Second, after cloning the drive and replacing it (with the target drive that was just cloned onto) for an upgrade, is it necessary to go into my system BIOS and change the computer boot sequence, or will the system automatically boot the correct drive (Have the correct boot order/sequence) since it's in the same slot?
Thanks!
Because if you do, you'll have the whole new drive's space as your OS drive. If not, you'll need to create a new partition with the remaining empty space and use that as another logical drive.
@@kw0064 Ok, so it is necessary to extend the system partition size of the target disk, but what about my other question? Is it necessary to change the computer boot sequence in the system BIOS when replacing the cloned drive?
@@ragus3321That's already been explained clearly in the video.
I had the exact same question and I don’t believe it was very well explained. So if I’m getting a new m.2 drive and I’m also putting in a sata. I wanna move windows to the sata so I can upgrade my m.2 why would I wanna use the full 1TB for windows ? I’m not getting that lol
@@Cyro2457 It's been a while, I'm surprised people are still seeing my comment but I have an answer. The reason you want to extend the cloned "system partition size" to the maximum size of the target disk, is because usually people will have their windows' software on the same partition as a whole bunch of other stuff. I, for example, have a 2 TB NVME ssd that has one single giant 2 TB storage partition, with somethin' like 50 gb or so taken up by the windows software. You absolutely don't need to partition the entire drive to a windows partition, but if you only allocate the minimum amount required to store what is on the drive you won't have any more space on that partition to store anything else.
In other words, you either partition the entire drive all at once to create one single partition that can store your windows stuff and everything else you want on it.
Or, you can partition the minimum amount, which will store everything properly, but you will need to create another partition immediately after for future storage use.
The single partition is just how things are most commonly organized on Windows, since most people want to limit the amount of drive letters/separate drives they have to comb through when looking at their stuff. It technically is kinda explained in the video, but it could be done better and I hope this helps.
Side note: If you're wondering about if you need to change anything in the computer boot sequence if you're replacing a cloned drive, don't worry about it, as you don't have to change anything like that if all you're doing is replacing a drive in the same slot, since your computer just boots based on the slot order or something. I don't really know how it works, I just know you only need to change the computer boot sequence if your boot drive is in a different slot from before.
Why do you want to extend the bar to use the whole drive if the source disk doesn't take up the entire target disk space? 4:38
This is exactly what i needed! Thankyou. so much! 🙏👏🔥
Thanks so useful 😄
You're welcome 😊
Nice so I can change the SSD with a bigger one without the need to reinstall everything.
Yes, that is correct
Yeah but this was made in China. Is there malware hidden in this software ?
@@francoisleveille409 who cares it works
@@armyspy9797 You're going to care if you have a business and all your creations are stolen or erased.
@@francoisleveille409 never had an issue with chinese ssds, not nearly as risky as installing pirated software or poking the wrong e-mails or websites
Nice, simple and easy guide, thank you! Liked & Subscribed
Super clear explanation. Free tools. Thank you for this awesome video 🎉🎉.
So when all the migration has been done and your software is on the new ssd do I need to re-enter my passwords for example steam or games? Or does it just migrate an all is done? I built my PC which is the easy part for me but when it comes to software I’m a nervous wreck
Thanks, worked perfectly! I was a bit confused when the new drive wasn't available for boot in BIOS, turns out my motherboard has separate boot order settings for UEFI hard drives and I had to go there to choose the proper drive.
I did get Disk Genius with a view to doing exactly what the video suggests. Then, all the hoo ha around 24H2 piled in so I went the custom .iso route instead. Cloning would have allowed me to keep my existing Windows license (One advantage of a Microsoft account, which I had when I switched my email account from Hotmail to Outlook.), but hey, it is what it is and one way or another I'll have Windows the way I want it when I eventually build my new PC.
Thanks for sharing
Excellent! Work easy and free, thankyou!👏🙏
Thank you Mate, you just saved me some money and time, Greatly appericated
0:51 is it possible to clone os from older ssd(2.5inch) to secondary nvme m.2 without enclosure ,just via that cable...that way we could use win 8 and win 11 on one computer,laptop..?
should work, one boot at the time on bios
Thank you........I miss free Macrium and this might help.
You're welcome
Just a note, You can still use the last free Macrium Reflect version. It works perfectly fine.
Hello does cloning means it will clone the OS with the files and apps installed?
have a question, is the drive have to be bigger than the previous one or still possible as long as the drive enough space?
Thanks for the help brother man!
So, I got a question. I had an ssd, in my laptop. I screwed something up, and the computer would no longer boot into Windows. The drive itself, is fine. If I were to clone it, to a different drive, would it still not boot into Windows? Thanks.
Thanks Brian that was very helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks
It really worked for me
Btw: you don’t need a bigger drive, just a drive that can fit everything from your old one.
So you have both old and new ssd in the pc. Once you transfer windows you power down and then swap the new one in the old one spot and vise versa. Then boot and your new ssd should boot windows?
I have a windows computer DAW, if I would keep cloning it as a back up would you recommend this software or some other one?
Diskgenius makes incremental backups, in case of problems with your DAW, you restore everything from the backup.
Certainly there are other software that do incremental backups, but Diskgenius is easy to use
I assume that this procedure would work in exactly the same way if the target disk is a large capacity internal 3.5" SATA hard drive, e.g. WD, Barracuda, or similar?
It will work just the same, only slower.
@@dingokidneys Great!
AOMEI user here, downloaded DiskGenius *Thanx Britec*
It did clone to other drive, but it didnt empty the previous c drive. And previous c drive is still c drive. New cloned drive is still E drive, both of them have the same files. What should i do?
thank you, works for my asus vivobook 16, just upgrade to 2 tb storage
I was able to use Diskgenius to duplicate my windows drive without any problem. However when I tried to boot from the new drive, I got an error stating inaccessible boot device. Any advice please? 🙏
Perfect timing on this video doing this now. Question for you, I'm migrating from a 500GB SSD to a 2TB M.2 SSD, I'd like to still use that SSD for some additional storage afterwards. how would I go about wiping that drive?
Just wipe your old drive once cloned and working
Once you've moved over to the new M.2 SSD, let the system run for a few days to make sure that all is good and you really don't need to go back to the old SSD. This may be overkill, but safe is better than sorry.
Then using Disk Management you can repartition and reformat the old SSD how you like. Be very careful that you are working on the right disk as there is essentially no going back from a repartition/reformat. Lost data is a bad feeling.
Thanks for the video. Worked perfectly as intended. Can the removed NVMe ssd be used as a data storage(like a pen drive) using the usb enclosure?
THANK YOU SO MUCH IVE BEEN STRUGGLING FOR 2 days straigh
After the cloning process (I used Trial version of Macrium reflect), how do I go ahead and change the boot source? Struggling to find a good video on this!
A common use case is to migrate from a larger HDD to a smaller SSD. For example, your Mom's computer takes forever to boot up and it runs slow. Task Manager shows the disk process at 100%. It has a 2TB HDD but is only 10% full. You buy a 500GB SSD drive for $35 and migrate the old disk to it. Now the computer runs faster and she can access emails on AOL.
Tried to buy a new SSD because my current one for my system is at 66% life, but the new one doesn't show up in the boot options after I used Hasleo Disk Clone to clone windows.
The SSD is an option for priority override, but not listed in normal boot options
just a question does this work if you just want to transfer data from a hdd to ssd?
I don't know if you still need the answer to this question but yes. I just did it myself.
Is it possible to have a separate drive just for video editing im wondering if this would reduce computer resources and keep a 2tb drive for the rest of the computer if so could or have you done a video thanks
Hi Brian,
Thank you so much for the video. It works perfectly for me. I just want to ask, so after everything has completed and the laptop boot perfectly using the new SSD, I could format the old SSD right?
I stopped the process after about a minute because I didn't see target drive having the same files/sectors as the disk to be copied. Now I have an exclamation mark on my new drive and I keep getting errors and I can't proceed. I've tried to reformat the new drive and it keeps failing. Any help would be appreciated.
I've not been a daily Windows user for years now so be careful, but I'd guess that you need to delete the partitions on the new drive using Disk Management. This should get you back to a blank drive from where you can try again. If that doesn't work, you may need to create a new partition table (GPT for preference) after deleting stray partitions.
@@dingokidneys Under Disk Management and diskpart I reset the new SSD, but I need to learn the disk genius program better because that is where I keep running into problems. I really just didn't know enough to attempt this to begin with. Thanks for the help dingokidneys.
can I delete all the data from the previous drive and use it as storage?
yeah
Thanks Brian this is something that I have been thinking of for some time now - cloning my 500GB PCIe express to a new 1TB PCIe express drive, and in the last I have used Macrium and AOMEI for doing this and frankly Macrium has never ever worked properly for me, and AOMEI has always been very "touchy" to use. Now I am assuming that I can clone to an external drive enclosure of course because the machine I am on is a one drive slot laptop? But anyway this software is the ducks guts by the looks of it and thanks again for a great tutorial as it is so easy to follow and by the looks of it to use this method😃😃👍👍👍👍
Let me know how you get on
@@Britec09 Ok will do mate but it will jot be for a while yet though.
When I press OS migration it’s only giving me the option to select my local disk C (500gb) but I want to move it to my local disk D (1TB).
Did I miss something or what
THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!!! It freaking works 😎
This may be a dumb question, but when you choose the Target Drive; why do you want want the Target Drive to use the whole drive instead of leaving the extra space you had? Sorry if I'm not explaining myself well.
Thank you! I need to do this to my daily driver.
i click on the os migration then a screen pops up saying before starting you can set a partition size on target disk but it doesnt allow me to do anything? the start button is greyed out.
any solution?
Thank You Brian!
So I'm getting a 2tb nvme and I wanna put windows on to this drive.... If I follow your steps all the way will I still have loads of space left on my new drive for games etc... Confused me when u changed the space to full
Why would you expand the room in the target drive?
So i have a 1tb drive with windows and lots of games. I want a 500gb drive for my windows boot and the 1tb drive as storage and my game drive. Can I also just transfer the windows partition to the smaller drive and keep my 1tbs files intact?
is it possible to do this into my current hdd instead of having to buy a new adapter? the hdd is my secondary storage and my motherboard only has 1 slot of m.2
Thanks for this clear video! One question remains though: in my case, my copy of the original boot drive is called F:. As far as I understand, when redirecting my computer to boot from that F: drive will change it's name into C: and the original C-drive into F:? The video was not very clear on that imo. Thanks in advance for the answer!
Ha olyan meghajtóra akarom tenni a rendszert,amin már vannak fájlok,azokat törölni fogja? Vagy csak átteszi a rendszert és kész?
groovy. just got a larger drive for windows and side programs. 500g to 1 TB, and then moving my games from that 1Tb to a 2Tb. Reformat the 1TB to drop my cloned windows 500g to it. use the 500g....somewhere else...lol
Glad i saw this video. thanks
does the os migration feature moves everything including documents or save files in other partition to new drives too? asking to be sure.
what do i do if the system migration is copying the old windows at the pace of 170 mB/min? I mean it is really slow why?
if my target disk has old data on it even though i have separated it into 2 partitions. The first partition is for old data and the second partition is for Windows migration. Will my first partition also be lost?
Are the games and everything you have on your previous hard drive cloned to the new one? Will everything in the new hard drive have the same files and games as the old one?
Thank you again. 👍👍👍👍👍
I have multiple partitions (C, D, E) in my present HDD and the C drive is around 480gb (236gb used). I want to migrate the os from this HDD to an SSD (500gb). If I just account the C drive in my HDD it is 236gb which is less than the SSD I want to transfer it to but if I also account the other drives on my HDD the data volume will exceed 500gb. I hope this is not a problem and the migration should still work and only clone the C drive instead of the whole HDD. Please clear this doubt for me so I can proceed to migrate my OS.
Thanks :)
I did eveying as the tutorial said but as soon i clicked on 'hot migration' my laptop blue screened and now it doesn't detect my ssd. What do I do??
So 1tb to 1tb mine is not full yet but im changing to gen 4 to gen 5 ssd will it be a problem doing what was explained in this video?
same if source has 2 partitions ?
it will clone it
i have to upgrade mother board and cpu to be compatible with win 11.i have new 1 TB samsung evo plus NVMe there is no conection for this in old mother board ,how i have to copie ssd samsung 850 ,256 GB to that and how i have to boot that in new instaled motherboard ? or what would be easiest proces to do that? thanks.
Im havingnsome issues using this method. Its partitioning my drive into like 4 or 5 segments, limiting my access despite changing the settings to 2 partitions only.
What if my mains SSD is in my gen 4 slot and new ssd will be in the gen 3 slot. Do i clone with the nee ssd in the gen3 slot and after switch the slots? Or do i do this before.
If I use external adapter for the cloning and put it inside my system and change the boot sequence, will it boot normally?