How to clone a Hard Drive or SSD
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Tutorial starts at 3:30
thanks lol
Tristan Miller
Loving the profile pic ;)
Fucking ridiculous.
Thank you. Was getting so frustrated.
oml.....you are so different compared with 2019 Jay...
Hysterical Wolf yup
He looks so young
Did he have another kid since this video?
And about 100 pounds heavier than 2019 Jay.
Day job Jay
Im here from the future, and damn has jay changed
yea first thing I noticed
Dhyan _____yeet______ says the guy from the past
@@darknessofcod Says the guy from 8 hours ago...
@@johnmora8843 says the guy from a week ago.......
@@MrBolyo1 Says the guy from 12 hours ago ....
Is it time to do a NEW version of this? Sure some things have changed in the last 6 years. Thanks
You mean the last EIGHT years!
Bruh
To all of you reading comments, I wish you a merry Christmas, and May you have a healthy and prosperous new year
You too
no u
YOU SHOULD MENTION YOU REQUIRE A SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE WE WASTE OUR TIME!
you can try it free for 30days
No he's not, the last update this did this dumb shit. You could literally use the free version forever but now they fucked it all up. This video was made 2 years ago. Think before you speak.
if you have a western digital drive you can use their version of the program (Granted you do not get all of the features as you would if you bought a subscription)
Acronis True Image WD Edition Software
support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?lang=en
Michael Taylor Correct, I found another program I'm using right now on a 30 day trial called EaseUs. I just copied my OS and it works great
I tried several programs trying to convert a spanned GPT dynamic virtual disk (across 2 drives a sing WD Blue 1 TB 3.5 in. and a 500 GB 3.5 in. seagate barracuda) to another drive (WD RED 3 TB 3.5 in) into a simple GPT disk with no success and it seems this software was unable to solve my issue either (I have several hundreds of dollars of data I need to get this data off of and no subscription based software has solved this issue if anyone knows of something please let me know) I have 3 months before I absolutely need the data in the format mentioned above on the aforementioned drive....
When I was a child, I thought superman was my hero. Dude! You are now my new hero!!! Thanx a mil!!!
What the heck. This Acronis program is $40!. I just bought a SanDisk ssd for $150 and it comes with nothing. This is BS!!!!
+Chris Rooster yoou can just use the trial lol
+Chris Rooster Macrium Reflect Free worked perfectly for me. 250GB SSD to 500GB SSD
www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx
+septiczz actually you can't use the trial version. It says: CLONE DISK (Unavailable in trial mode)
+septiczz No, the cloning option doesn't work in the trial version.
+Anthony Paramo do you think going from a HDD to SSD would work with this?
i should clone everything on to floppydisks
--Shxt this is old 🤔 but with the size of a floppy and data kompression now, it would hold a MASSIVE amount. Edit the gutz of kourse, keep the "look" 🙂 that would be sexy.
Depending on the size of your hdd, you can have a lot of floppy’s wince they only hold 1.44mb
whats with the tinny audio on this vid? or is it just my system?.. EDIT: just worked it out, the cat somehow turned the volume down on my sub!!!!
Dulux Doggy Cat trolled!
+JayzTwoCents if i clone a ssd to a ssd with windows 8.1 on it . can i just format 1 of them ??
Jacob Ladenius if you clone one, then you have 2 of the same... so yes. but make sure the clone works 100% before you lose the old one
Just wanna thank you for the new short intro adverts, I like these, keeps me updated on new products that I may be interested in, hope they giving you the revenue you need too.
Nice, your videos are like a woman's skirt, long enough to cover the subject but short enough to keep it interesting.
LOL
Yes bro lmao
LOL !!
the only thing worries me are:
- does it copy the registry completely?
- does it copies the software I already installed such as files in the program files/program files (x86)?
- How 'bout files in users folder?
OMG, hope I get an answer who tried this before, I just ordered an nvme SSD.
Everything! Your particular SSD may have its own cloning software available. You can also do a windows cleanup on your existing drive before cloning.
Again I have to ask, how do I get this software to actually DO what its designed to do in the FREE version, without HAVING to "upgrade" to some other bullshit version that I do not require?
Perfect!!! I just used this video to instruct a 70 year old gamer friend of mine, how to clone his Modern Warfare drive on to a spare hard drive we are gonna put in the drawer for when we upgrade his CPU to the I7, install all the drivers and re-authorize windows, we can copy the 140 gig game right back on to the new 500 gig ssd he bought.(otherwise, he will be re-downloading it for days without backing up) Great video!!
Would love to see more of this type of thing rather than showing us all the. Crazy stuff we can't afford as often do still like new content but your earliest stuff is among your best
I miss “ no-sleep looks like wearing mascara”-Jay 😉
Will this work by cloning a boot HDD to an SSD in order to make the SSD my new boot drive?
No doesnt work like that
Omg, an Old Jay vid!! Needed to figure out how to do this and saw this gem waiting for me!! Loved it
This was a very good look at cloning 2 disks. I've been using Acronis (now Acronis 2018 Pro) for some time and haven't had any bad copies yet. I purchased a Thermaltake "BLAC X Duet" dual hard drive docking station (not hot swappable, I know I tried it once) that enables me to connect two additional drives to my system via a 3.0 SS cable. I've been able to clone multiple drives this way and while it's not the fastest connection method, It doesn't require that I install the drives into any system either. I had a new HP Envy system that came with a 120Gb SSD and I upgraded it to a 256gb SSD and eventually upgraded that to a Samsung 512 gb EVO 850 Pro without any problems using the Acronis software. This PC only had two drive bays, which required that I use the external drive method as I had loaded Acronis onto my 4.0 Tb second drive where the majority of my Windows apps are installed. In short; it works great!
Great video but what if you are trying to clone your OS from a 1TB or larger HDD to a smaller SSD. Can you do a detailed video of that process showing what folders to keep and what to clone.
Cyber Dustin you need to resize your partition down to a smaller volume before you clone it. Give yourself some slack space to be safe, just don’t go too small, you can always resize your partition to its full capacity after the clone.
So what these softwares will do is clone everything from one partition of a drive to another without deleting anything. And when I have my OS on the target drive all I do is set the target drive as the main boot device in my BIOS?
***** Did you figure this out? I want to copy my OS and some games from my HDD to an SSD and I'm wondering if this is all I have to do.
biff butkus No man, I didn't :(
I ended up installing windows 8.1 on my new SSD and resetting my current HDD. If you need help with it, add me on Skype: Entrt4inment
***** Can I skype you? I just want to know how to delete windows 7 on an hdd and upgrade to 10 on an ssd.
Sting Reah :)
hey,
so i have my windows 10 on a 1tb HDD, and i recently got a 275gb SSD. so if i copy my windows 10 from HDD to SSD using acronis, how do i know that the computer will run or boot everytime from the SSD and not the HDD? i am asking since you said that cloning is just the copy of the drive.. so that means that both my HDD and SSD will have the windows 10 OS?
It's even easier than the method described in this video, all you have to do is push two keys at the same time. This will bring up the menu you need. when you're ready to clone your drive, simply press ALT+F4.
oh god that intro. "hey whats going on you pc addicts" *shivers*
So after I clone my old HDD to my new HDD, can I remove the old and continue using the new HDD?
Yes
One I've come to like for imaging and cloning is Macrium Reflect.
Yep I would recommend Reflect as well. It free for personal use. It can also clone without rebooting the os. I use Reflect to backup my OS drives every month.
Same here, I never had a problem using Reflect
This should take 15-20 minutes
My PC: finishes 2 hours later
Bad drive? Also did you get all your data on the new drive
Watching this in 2018, this video is in the google search for this!!!
I can't thank you enough for making this tutorial! I needed it, like, right NOW!
Clonezilla open source. Free.
Why not just learn how to use Disk Management... Just like how he "Should've" done in this video... That's funny he claims to work in IT and doesn't know how to use Disk Management lol...
He probably wanted to make this tutorial as easy as possible so everybody could understand it. He did it with a few simple clicks. In Disk Management thats not the case.
vav17NL
Yeah, but still. It would've been nice to be able to learn how to do it. And idk where else to...
You can't clone a disk through disk management..
Willzor
But you can make a partition up to 1 Terabyte like I did. Thought everyone knew that...
WTF how this guy got million views not even worth compared to other guys doing it so clean on the screen!
Jayz! This video just made my entire weekend! Thank you immensely JayzTwoCents!!
I have a Dell XPS 8700 series running Windows 7 64 bit. I tried everything here and received a message that stated "This Drive Cannot Be Cloned"... the original C-Drive is a hybrid with SATA and SSD combined. Is there a method I can use to clone this C-Drive? Thanks for the excellent video, just didn't work for me.
Frederick Dunn Story of my life when it comes to computers. If it's not plug and play I'm screwed. I know just enough to not be able to troubleshoot.
Oh that's a worse case scenario. You probably need to get take off both ssd and hdd and install a new OS on a new drive. Because once you have a RAID-ed drives, cloning becomes way more complicated.
can you also transfer single programms like the operating system or games? i want to buy an ssd (i have a 1TB hard drive) and want my games and operating system on the ssd.
MaxArtZ your os I'm not sure. But your games is just a matter of dragging and dropping it from one to the other. Or as I understand. It probably doesn't matter now but just thought I'd comment
William Nett lol 2 years later
who wouldve thought capacities would be so much higher in only a few years.. I have two 1TB 860 evo's, 3x 1tb 970 evo nvme ssd's, 2x 1tb hdd's, and 2x 500gb hdd's
the days of installing one or two storage drives are over. nowadays storage is so inexpensive you can have a seperate drive for each category of data. That way if anything goes wrong you CANT lose all your data off the dead drive or the virus ridden drive. All your important stuff is saved no matter what. I definitely dont miss these low capacity drive days. i still remember my first 5GB HDD. i thought it was HUGE capacity. Back then i never wouldve thought id be installing 80GB single games though and have an 800GB music library or a 2TB movie library. 5GB worked for the level of computing being done in those days. Still fun to look back in time at these old videos though.
What a coincidence... My new hard drive just arrived today and I needed this video, haha :) Thanks
But how do I migrate/move windows 10 to the SSD without any other files? I have 600GB's used on my HDD but only 120 GB free on my SSD????
@@blckmlr7573 thank you
clonezilla FTW. I dislike windows specific tools as it's not versatile enough to work with other filesystem types like btrfs, xfs, and ext3/ext4
PREACH!!!!!!!!!
nerd
I actually planned to move to a bigger SSD tomorrow and now this video, just perfect!
Thank you Jay
I knew this was going to be an older video by the layout of the set, but I had to exit full screen to look at the upload date once I saw he was running Windows 7. My God.
what if i just want to move my o.s to an ssd only? help >.
+chase ling
Then it's a little trickier...
lifehacker.com/5837543/how-to-migrate-to-a-solid-state-drive-without-reinstalling-windows
+chase ling You'd have to backup, your entire user folder(s), progam files, and whatnot (or whatever data you want to save) to your trusty backup drive. Move (or delete) files on your primary drive. until you have pretty much just the OS. clone the drive after that. Put everything back from the backup drive where you want it. It's kind of a tedious process. Hope I could help :D
@jayztwocents dude it is nuts how much weight you have lost since this vid. Congrats
Jay's cloning tool: part 1 of 4
Nice content, Jay. I'm a n00b who found your channel through Barnacules and the Tek, and I find your topics and insights more interesting these days. Keep it up.
Excuse me in case I'm being stupid, but would this copy over the OS in such a way that all you have to do is putting your new drive into your computer and everything would work as before?
Windows 8 MIGHT require a repair install from a boot disk, but windows 7 almost always works fine first time.
3:25 when what you care about starts
Thank you so much for making this video Jay! This is just what I was looking for. Keep it up!
Old man Jay to the rescue again.
i am going to change my mobo and cpu and i know win 7 does not like that and i don't want to buy windows again is there a way to make the same win 7 work on a new mobo also i have a 60gb ssd with os and 1tb hdd with my steam games i have like 700gb of games and with my internet it would take mouth to re download so if i have to get a new os and i get win 7 again and put it on the ssd can i use the same hdd with my steam library on it also steam is on my ssd but my steam library is on my hdd is this a problem
Great video jay as always keep it up bro play soon ?!
Thanks Jay. Your videos are like a light in the dark forest of my build.
Sweet. my sister's going to buy a tb ssd and wants me to copy her stuff onto her new drive from her old. knew it could be done just didn't know how. thanks for clearing this up!
Sorry but Im kinda new to this idea Jay,
If I clone a main drive SSD to another SSD, and plug it in as my new main drive again, will it run instantly? Do I have to do some licensing procedures about the OS? and also the old SSD, if I plug it in to a different computer, will it also run immediately? or will it ask for license or something? if I update both OS of the computers with the same clone SSD's what would happen, does it ask for another license or something?
doodskie999 I'm wondering the same thing..
Chris DiGi As long as the motherboard stays the same and the same SATA controller is used, windows shouldn't give you any problems
Damnit Jay, could you at least mention those free options? I was looking into buying some Acronis software before this video but i'm sure there are tons of viewers would be more than happy with the open source equivalents of this.
Clonezilla
I dont use those options, you will have to find those out on your own. Sorry.
It's alright, UnderwearThief and some good ol google fu has pointed me in the right direction, but just know there is some interest in maybe doing a comparison video of all of the backup/cloning options there are out there :)
Western Digital edition is free
friedzombie4 Do you even pirate bro? ( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)
thank you so much for this video. my hard drive was failing and didnt have money for a new windows key! (lost my installation disk) so i cloned it and no more failure!
Super helpful. I had to make a double OS drive swap between my mom's laptop and my PC and this helped a ton. In the past I'd just spend hours backing up manually and reinstalling stuff. Thanks!
Just one question - if I clone my HDD to an SSD, will all my stuff work? I mean things like MS Office and similar software with protection against copying?
It should should work so long as you are using a 2.5 inch serial ata SSD. I cloned plenty of Windows 10 disks from mechanical drives to 2.5 SSDs using Acronis. Things a bit complicated when you try and update to NVME drives. There new are drivers that sometimes needs to be sideloaded into Acronis and I most likely create an image instead cloning.
How would I migrate only the OS and certain files such as games?
Manual mode.
guess i'll have to use this method too, my movie collection wont really fit on a 120gb ssd lol
OffDhookNY Or uninstall the crap you don't want from source disk and than do it...
You would have to remove all your data reinstall your OS the clone it
perfect timing Jay!!! I´m about to set up a Raid 1 and move all my stuff to a bigger drive
man jay looked so different back in the day
2020
@@doodleomen55 yes thats what year it is
Can you clone just the OS and leave the rest or do you have to clone the whole thing?
I want to know also.....
Sh4dowfireX
From what I've researched, you have to take the whole thing. It's an image of the system.
There doesn't seem to be any disadvantage to just reinstalling the OS on a new drive, though, if you just want the OS.
Damn man . . . how bout drinking 6 more cups of coffee and speeding things up even more. What the hell is your hurry?
Even after 2 years, Jay still helps with everything.
Haha! Just got a new SSD and was googling how to do this, this afternoon! Thankyou for the video xD!
60fps?
please respond jay, I love you but I also love 60fps.
I might upload 60fps for game footage, but my camera records at 1080p cinematic and 29.97fps, not 1080p 60fps.
Not even a fully cinematic experience :( [shots at ubisoft have been fired]
Thanks for responding anyway ;)
***** will this copy over operating system and everything like my primary to the new primary cause I hate starting from scratch :)
why do you need 60 fps for a non gaming video?
there's no point on a non game video. Just more space needed to render and longer times for uploading. upload might not be a issue in Jayz's situation, but in aus only like 20% of the population have optic fibre to the node, and adsl 2+ isn't good enough.
if i clone my boot drive (hdd) over to a ssd, i can boot from it right? (and then wipe the old hdd one)
torrented windows :( dont want to go throug the hassle again
yeah. if it doesnt then set your ssd as the boot drive in the bios
Show some support and buy windows if you have the money
Smurf Smurfsson i dont
check out kinguin, I got windows 10 pro for $27
i have arrived from 6 years in the future, glad you grew sideburns to be extended to a beard instead that Guy Fieri look that i can't bear to look at
I recently picked up a Crucial 512 GB MX100 SSD. My computer was blocking the download of Acronis for some reason, so I decided to use Macrium Reflect. Macrium Reflect turned my 512 GB SSD into a 128 GB SSD, since it pretty much copied the partitions of my old SSD. I had to use my Windows 7 disk to repair the partition problems that MR created on my new SSD. I ended up using another PC to download Acronis onto a thumb-drive and used that program to perform an easy transfer over to my new SSD.
I'd thought that everything was going great with the transition to my new SSD, but I encountered a trojan that I'd constantly delete using ad-aware. The Trojan pretty much kept opening a DLL service that was trying to reach a site for updates. I finally figured it out, it was Acronis that was causing the issue. I highly recommend that you remove the software, once you have imaged your SSD/HDD to your new SSD.
Disliked, this program he mentioned is not free at all...........
He didn't say it was free he said it came bundled with the drive.
wish they still sold that acer monitor, still holds up pretty well if your graphics card outputs DVI or you've got a VGA to HDMI adapter.
came to see how its done... find out some imposter has eaten jay
Thanks Jay I have the same problem with old ssd getting full. Love all you videos post man.
This should be more common than you'd think. Don't know why computers come with such small hard drives these days.
Hope you updated your 840 Evo firmware prior to the transfer! Samsung had an "old" data (>30 days old) read time slowdown issue that required a total drive refresh be done. You're in I.T. so you probably knew this, but I looked through a bunch of the comments and didn't see this mentioned by anyone, so...
If you already heard this/knew this, please disregard. If not, the fix is on their website.
Brill tutorial Jay. Very easy to follow and no BS. Well done and thanks!
Does it move the operating system to the new drive I bought a new ssd and my operating system is on my old hard drive how do I move it 🤔
Use a live Linux distro and pipe the output of dd into gzip! I do this with frequent backups, and since I only have one slot for a 2.5" drive in my setup, I use an external USB 3.0 disk to save the drive image.
I've migrated a Windows installation from a 500 GB 7200rpm hard drive to a 256 GB solid state drive. All you have to do in this case is ensure that all the data is at the beginning of your drive (by defragging it) and specifying the block size and count in the DD command. (This only works if all your data will fit on the target drive, and that you don't have any fragments near the end of the drive!)
What type of camera and audio devices are you using to record your shows? It is so crystal clear in both audio and video production.
Been using Acronis True image since my first Kingston ssd kit. It came bundled with an external drive bay and USB cable which I still use to this day for my clones! Best SW in my opinion .👍👍
Damn looking at your desktop icons reminds me of my fucking childhood ...
I'm thinking you should do video on how to setup on old computer as a file share server on an isolated domain from the rest of the network. That can be of great help to people who have multiple computers (or wanting to build a HTPC) and want to easily share files with each other without having to use a service on the internet or without worry of specific operating system (Mac OSX, Windows, Linux Flavors, and if at all possible, Mobile OS's).
Thanks this video will definitely help when I get an SSD in February
I'm going to need to use this in a couple of days. My WD black 1TB 7200RPM drive is down to 25GB. I'm planning on getting a Toshiba 6TB 7200RPM drive from Microcenter for $179.99. I'll download the trial to use it. The 6TB storage should last me some years.
I recommend DiskImage from Laplink. It guards against loss of data due to file corruption, or hard disk failures.
Jayz videos are getting more and more useful.
Nice review, i'm just planning to install a ssd on my desktop
Thank you sir.. How can anyone complain about "free"' and we did it voluntarily ... lol You and Phillips computer labs have helped out this old Win 3.1 guy.. cheers
For those end users who just gotta have it all "just like it was"...when you clone a HD, can you go to the Desktop folder & find all shortcuts, everything exactly as they had it, put all those shortcuts on a new desktop (assuming OS is same), & voila?
My comment would be: If you have a RAID 0 setup for your OS, you will have to perform an ISO backup, then a restore to the new RAID set of disks. You'll have to have a separate disk for holding the ISO backup. FYI... just my 2 cents.
As always a solid video Jay and well worth the time it took to watch it.
I can relate, I think some things are just common sense too, but other people see them as hard and complicated.
love your work, was curious about this, you´re awesome. thank you and cheers from Sweden :)
When i upgraded my 80GB SSD to 240GB SSD i had a lot of trouble to clone it. It would create 80GB partition on the 240GB SSD. At that point after trying 2 or 3 free clone utilities i gave up. Thanks for this video. If i need to clone next time i will probably try that tool.
Omfg jayz2chins what happened bro loving the change.
jayz from 2014 helping me in 2018
When i was migrating from my kingston 240gb to my new Samsung 500gb 840 EVO. I first tried the Samsung migrating software,and i have never seen a more useless program (please don't use it folks). I did a fair bit of research and eventually came over a software that's called EaseUS Todo Backup and it's completely free (there is a paid version as well,but there is no reason to go with that). It cloned my drive without any issues, and even if you don't have formated your drive before cloning it. It will automatically do it for you in the process. Iv'e used it now to clone and backup several drives without a single issue. And it's now my go to software for cloning and backup. I will strongly recommend it to everyone,it's really easy to use (even if you don't have a clue about what to do). And it's just as good for professionals as "noobs". And the amount of features it has for the free version i would give it a 8/10. So far i haven't heard a negative thing about the software. And i tried about 6 different programs before i found this gem. And it even saved my data from my 2tb usb drive after I plugged it in,and you get that annoying: You need to format this drive "bug" even though it worked perfectly fine the last time my disk was plugged in. All i can say is, try it out guys it's free so it's not like you have anything to loose by trying it.
And of course you have hirens boot cd, which also has a lot of useful tools on it,and i consider a must have. But that's for another subject. :)
I do love Acronis' products however if you're a little more technically inclined and aren't afraid of a non gui interface look up "clonezilla" which is FREE.
I have a 500 gb hard drive and i bought a 240 gb ssd how do i move the os from the hard drive to the new ssd
I think just as the tutorial explains. Just make sure you whittle down what's on the old drive so that it fits on the new drive. Unless you're shooting for a little more exotic like the SSD as an additional drive being used to augment (perhaps to boot from, for faster response).
Actually, Dr. Jay, if you use MiniTool Partition Wizard, disk migration is a snap. You can download their bootable manager which I did and loaded it to a USB drive using Rufus. Easy Breezey. And, yes, I bought Minitool because I liked it so much and it was really easy. No BS to contend with. Rufus is a bit tricky as to how to set up the boot create but once you see what to do is also easy.
jay has had the same hair cut for 6 years XDDD