Thanks for the simple video, found that my sounce drive was a 500gb hdd drive when i pulled out from laptop and the one i brought for the target drive was 480gb ssd, then tried to clone on another software but came up with error that the target drive was too small, after googling some more then came across your video, so far so good, my drive is halfway cloning. Thank you.
Follow-up ...I did both my HP Laptops and this is the easiest way to clone and fast.Unless you were blind was a breeze. Now they are both fast. Again Thanks The Disk Genius software are very easy.
Thanks for this information. I had used another free tool to clone the HDD to SSD and the boot partition did not copy properly and windows would not boot. With Disk Genius it worked perfectly.
I noticed there was no data on the original HDD except the OS, all you did was a straight clone from HDD to SSD. That's why it only took around 15 minutes. What about when you have an HDD full of programs and documents and are wanting to clone to a smaller SSD? Will it still work then or do you have to first reduce the partition size to match the size of the SSD?
Hello mate, Your way of explanation is very nice. I am facing issues in making image of gpt disk (os only + additional smaller partitions) with drive snapshot software. Image creation is okay. But upon restoration to same hardware, windows does not boot up. It will be better if you can make a tutorial for creating image of gpt disk with uefi bios and restore on other system with same hardware, I use drive snapshot mostly, please try to use same software if possible.
I've watched this video several times. My system sees the smaller unportitioned SSD drive. When the source and target drives are selected, it reports "Used space of source disk exceeds target disk capacity, please reselect". Can the free version of DiskGenius still work as you say? The source disk is 1TB and the unpartitioned target disk is 512GB. I am an experienced compatible user of 30+ years and have helped many. Please reply. Thank you.
@@masterjim666 Thank you for the reply. I had come to that conclusion. It would have been helpful to say "Remove some data from the larger source disk to be less than the smaller target disk." Thanks again.
Hey so i have a 2TB HDD and a 1TB SDD but it gives me an errir saying that the source one is too big how do i fix that i dont want to copy all the files i only want windows which i truly believe is under 1TB
If the amount of data on the source drive is larger than the destination drive it won't clone. Most of the time people barely fill up those large drives, or if they do, the files are generally like photos and videos that can be moved off first and put on a separate drive before cloning. The only way this works going from a large drive to a smaller drive is assuming that the amount of data you are moving from the larger drive is less than the capacity of the smaller drive, and the rest of the large drive is empty.
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EXCELLENT PRESENTATION.Easy to understand step by step even though I am 80 years old and not a computer genius I learn and did it like one . Thanks
Wow, thanks!
Thanks for the simple video, found that my sounce drive was a 500gb hdd drive when i pulled out from laptop and the one i brought for the target drive was 480gb ssd, then tried to clone on another software but came up with error that the target drive was too small, after googling some more then came across your video, so far so good, my drive is halfway cloning. Thank you.
The best and easiest step I’ve seen on this topic. Keep up the good work
Wow, thanks!
Follow-up ...I did both my HP Laptops and this is the easiest way to clone and fast.Unless you were blind was a breeze. Now they are both fast. Again Thanks The Disk Genius software are very easy.
Thanks for this information. I had used another free tool to clone the HDD to SSD and the boot partition did not copy properly and windows would not boot. With Disk Genius it worked perfectly.
You are s "disk genius"😊 thank you!
The music made this video unnecessarily annoying
This worked on first try.. Thank you very much..
Perfect. Thank you so much!!!
I noticed there was no data on the original HDD except the OS, all you did was a straight clone from HDD to SSD. That's why it only took around 15 minutes. What about when you have an HDD full of programs and documents and are wanting to clone to a smaller SSD? Will it still work then or do you have to first reduce the partition size to match the size of the SSD?
Exactly!
@@ridemfast7625it was about the music the video, not factual system, programs, partitions, files
It doesn't matter what's on the disk as long as the used space is smaller than the new disks space. Obviously.
Thanks for this, will try and let you know how it went. it would make my life a lot easier.
Thank you so much, it really helped me
Thank You, it works wery well. 😊
Hello mate,
Your way of explanation is very nice. I am facing issues in making image of gpt disk (os only + additional smaller partitions) with drive snapshot software. Image creation is okay. But upon restoration to same hardware, windows does not boot up. It will be better if you can make a tutorial for creating image of gpt disk with uefi bios and restore on other system with same hardware, I use drive snapshot mostly, please try to use same software if possible.
Excelent teacher🎉
The music was perfect
I've watched this video several times. My system sees the smaller unportitioned SSD drive. When the source and target drives are selected, it reports "Used space of source disk exceeds target disk capacity, please reselect". Can the free version of DiskGenius still work as you say?
The source disk is 1TB and the unpartitioned target disk is 512GB.
I am an experienced compatible user of 30+ years and have helped many.
Please reply. Thank you.
As the error message says: You cannot have more used space on the old disk than the total capacity of the new smaller disk. Delete some data first.
@@masterjim666 Thank you for the reply. I had come to that conclusion. It would have been helpful to say "Remove some data from the larger source disk to be less than the smaller target disk." Thanks again.
Hey so i have a 2TB HDD and a 1TB SDD but it gives me an errir saying that the source one is too big how do i fix that i dont want to copy all the files i only want windows which i truly believe is under 1TB
You can only clone to a smaller drive if the contents that you are copying are smaller than the drive you are cloning to.
@@SelfIndulgentGamer yea I figured that out around 4 months ago and already got me a 2TB SSD so all good thanks tho
Didn't work for me
Thank you
i cannot press start help me
Will this work if the new ssd is in a usb caddy?
Yes, the copy will just take longer because copying via USB will be slower than SATA. But it will work.
thank you
@@brucehill9710
It is all the file from the hhd are migrated to ssd?
Or only the window operating system ?
Thank You
Thank you 🎉
You’re welcome 😊
music is too loud.😡
So what happens to the excess data since the previous HDD is larger?
If the amount of data on the source drive is larger than the destination drive it won't clone. Most of the time people barely fill up those large drives, or if they do, the files are generally like photos and videos that can be moved off first and put on a separate drive before cloning. The only way this works going from a large drive to a smaller drive is assuming that the amount of data you are moving from the larger drive is less than the capacity of the smaller drive, and the rest of the large drive is empty.
It won't work if the SSD has less space than the HDD available
This annoying music gives me a cancer.
Actually the music is so annoying I cannot follow this video.
Awful video
The irritating music isn’t necessary. I don’t understand why people think these videos need music to distract from the tutorial.
because it was not s factual tutorial at all, just a joke with music