Replace A Hard Drive or SSD For FREE Without Losing Data

Today we are doing another video showing how to replace a hard drive or SSD without loosing all your data. This time we are using a completely free application to do it. I will show you several ways to clone a hard drive or SSD. One way is fast and works in most cases and the other is very slow and works in all cases.
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[@PhoticSneezeOne]

Why to this very day is HDD cloning still not just a part of the operating system? Why the artificial tinkering in the PC world? It´s insane.

[@samyosef]

Going through the pain

[@nevose9046]

Because there is money that can be made making it a separate program and procedure.

[@daffydlandegge3843]

Very good point

[@Scr34mik]

because that way youre migrating machine license as well. this violates microsoft's own ToS..

[@PhoticSneezeOne]

How is this a "migration" if i just upgrade my SSD in my own PC?

[@1EagleDave]

I`ve been in this business for years bro and your videos are good for folks who want to really learn something worth watching. keep up the great work bro!

[@gotbordercollies]

If it's Monday, it's time to watch another fine video from Rich. Thank you sir!

[@GarysGeeks]

Thanks for your videos. Even as an IT pro I still pick up useful items, ideas and tools from your feed. Thanks...

[@blahorgaslisk7763]

Last I had to clone my machine I transferred from a HDD to a SSD. I chose a Samsung SSD and they had disk cloning software available on their website. It was a version of some commercial software, though I've forgotten what manufacturer. I recognized it as I've used the original versions for many years at work. Samsung had bought a license to use it and called it the Samsung Disk Wizard. It might be worth checking if you are copying to or from a Samsung disk in your system.

[@devonfisher5040]

Thanks!! Looks like it's called Samsung Magician.

[@laurentitolledo1838]

Samsung magician also worked for me on a personal use however it disastrously failed on bitlocked drives (which I don't have the bitlock key).

[@robertcartier5088]

The Samsung solution did not work for me, last year... it kept saying that my new SSD wasn't big enough, despite it being exactly the same size as the original HDD. Completely useless. Luckily, I had already used EaseUS on another system, so I fetched a free version of it that worked. Not sure if the newer versions still do...

[@charginginprogresss]

@@robertcartier5088 It's not actually the same size. SSDs reserve 5-10% of their actual capacity for replacing damaged sectors. HDD just lock out damaged sectors when they find them, so they have full space. Even if they accounted for that making the SSD base size bigger, there's no way after that 5-10% subtraction the nail the same byte size of all hard drives of all brands. And in fact...

[@ruigaspar7979]

Yesterday I had a client that bought an Samsung NVME drive, and used Samsung migration tool. Worked great and clone all disk data. Worked for me! 😊

[@richmerkowitz6522]

Thanks for all your helpful technical insights! I copied data from a smaller drive to a larger drive using Clonezilla's sector-by-sector feature. To utilize all of the space on my larger drive, I chose the advanced extra parameters-disc to local disc, option k1-to generate a partition table proportionally. When attempting to utilize the remaining space, the feature performs just as well as EaseUS when it comes to partition expansion.

[@kier4n]

Thanks so much for this video. I had no idea where to begin. The first method made my disk gpt partition protected so just wasn't recognised nor booting. The second worked a dream. Thanks again!!

[@BWGPEI]

Gotta love the "know how to do" displayed here. Many Thanks!

[@tonymarziano464]

This is brilliant! I've been searching for hours to find a cloning method to do exactly what you've just explained. You're a legend! Thanks mate.

[@ShookD]

Wow, talk about hitting the nail on the head. I recently am having trouble with a Ext HD that's about ready to bite the dust. And trying to find the cheapest Ext SSD 1 tb chip and drive case to fix it. And while doing this I thought might as well make my internal HD SSD also. I was wondering how to transfer everything without a mess and or hassle. And then I see this video. TY so much! It gonna really help soon.

[@mudnwitthemob]

Did it reset all your PC Settings and make u essentially like reset your Pc or was all data and settings saved through the cloning process?

[@charginginprogresss]

21:37 yeah the recovery partition is always the rightmost partition, but if you clone the disk to a bigger one you will have C -> Recovery -> Empty space and you cannot just expand C into the space, you have to clone the recovery to the rightmost part of the empty space, then delete the old one, and then only then, expand C. This is a remnant of when only hard disk existed, btw. On SSD it doesn't make any sense to have an order for partitions, technically, as the data is not physically split, but only logically. Eventually they'll figure this out and we'll be able to resize any partition regardless of 'order'...

[@GRAFFIXCLAN666]

I am literally having this problem right now lol.

[@user-ss6zt2mo1l]

This fixed my one issue with the Windows Bugcheck causing the Nvidia card to freak out. Next I installed MSI Afterburner software and adjusted the core speed and frequency to -30 each. I also boosted the available voltage to the card to 105%. I have a Dell T3610 and just recently upgraded it from Win10->Win11 with Rufus 4.4p. Just let it update itself when you install It. Thank you for saving my pocketbook ❤

[@CarbonGlassMan]

Thank you for the video. Using a second laptop, 2 SSD external cases & 2 of the USB ports on the old Lenovo laptop, I was able to clone my 512gb failing SSD to a new 2TB SSD by using my old laptop as a passthrough. Even my ACASIS NVMe M.2 Duplicator Dual-Bay Offline Clone USB C to NVME Docking Station would not work to clone the old SSD to the new one. I even made a bootable flash drive from the old failing SSD and that wouldn't install windows either. I can't believe I had this much trouble because I've cloned drives several times over the years when I upgraded to a larger drive. I've never had trouble cloning a drive. Even the 1st time I did it, before I knew about cloning, I made an image file from an old small drive and installed the image onto a new larger drive. Even that never gave me any problems. So if anyone is having the same kind of problems that I have been having, Lavasoft, 2 SSD caddies and a second computer to use as a passthrough is something you might try.

[@SORB2000]

I used Macrium reflect. Worked perfectly.

[@gerydblackmore5484]

have used macrium reflect for years, also use acronis which is great. x

[@CoMmAnDrX]

Even though they killed the Free version it is still one of the best IMHO

[@gerydblackmore5484]

@@CoMmAnDrX still works to create an img.

[@DragonKingGaav]

I thought this was going to be the software that Rich used.

[@gilbertotrevisan6538]

I'm too, it worked with whatever stuff i throw on it

[@MichaelSullivanCincinnatux]

Tons of great information in this video - much thanks for this. All I needed to do was upgrade the SSD on my desktop PC and what I ended up with is that result plus a bootable USB recovery thumb drive that I have already used a couple of times for other maintenance work. Mucho thanko!

[@juanroldan4379]

Thanks! I need to clone my drive from a 128g to a 1TB. This helps.

[@vernemil]

Excellent Video. Thanks !!!

[@mutazkojeh2061]

Keep going, you're awesome 👍

[@kirikayuumura3256]

Tinker's Tip: If you buy a name brand retail boxed/packaged drive, it is very likely they offer a branded version of "a software company starting with A" you can install for free as part of that drive brand's "support" software. It won't have of all of the modules functional, but the Disk Clone module will function fully. The branded version of "a software company starting with A" will check to make sure there is the same drive brand detectable on the system doing the cloning, even if it is connected sata/nvme or USB and even if it is not a drive being cloned to or from, and then once detected, it will then run the clone module. The tip is, keep one of whatever brand drive connected to the computer, so later when you need to clone other drives, no matter those drive's brand, the "a software company starting with A" software you install originally will still work. And, if you ever decide to go to another brand drive, just uninstall the previous "a software company starting with A" install and then install the new brand's "a software company starting with A" version and continue to use it. I have been doing as such for about 5+ years now on my drive cloning / hardware testing PC. .

[@dontrend5956]

Acronis. There, I printed it for you.

[@ObakuZenCenter]

You can write the name lol.

[@bluehonour02]

The problem is in most cases the software coming with these drives is just some lame Windows software (SanDisk I am looking at you) for managing disks, recovering data etc. Nowhere near to cloning disks, working in live cd mode or anything like that.

[@kirikayuumura3256]

@@ObakuZenCenter and @dontrend5956 - YT was being weird.... everytime I made the post with the software company's name, YT acted like it moderated the comment, so I posted w/o the name and it posted OK, and then the comment that appeared to be moderated re-appeared, hence my "double post" edit below

[@genabuksuet]

Been Using Acronis for almost a decade, since I only buy Crucial SSDs and it comes with it, until the last time I attempted to copy all 3 drives from my old desktop to the new one. I screwed up all 3 drives, along with the backups on them. Not sure if it's Bitlocker or another reason.

[@salehkarali314]

Thx man I really like the way you troubleshoot, whenever I have any issue I always watch your content and always find solution. Thank you so mach keep it up 👍

[@andrewjutub]

i love You, man. This is what I've recently need it

[@Wile-E-Coyote_Super_Genius]

Another great video. Im usually on a Mac but keep up on Windows because the Mrs has one.

[@OG_Eshwa]

Thank you for the tutorial, worked flawlessly.

[@mudnwitthemob]

Did it reset all your PC Settings and make u essentially like reset your Pc or was all data and settings saved through the cloning process?

[@pixelsc4620]

Great, and much more entertaining than doing it myself.

[@Nixima81]

Grate info for any clones out there. You can also buy an Samsung SSD and get there clone software and do it true it.

[@juzf]

On win10 I use mini tool partition wizard free v.9 , newer ones have blocked functions to copy partitions etc, it is intuitive and easy to use. You do not need any pendrives

[@Spacedog79]

If you've done a sector by sector copy it's a good idea to immediately run a disk check on the new drive after because any file system errors on the old disk would have been copied over as they were.

[@The_DuMont_Network]

Good catch!

[@mikimouse3001]

some disk clonning software have the option to skip the bad sectors in order to avoid porting those bad sectors to the new disk.

[@Spacedog79]

@@mikimouse3001 Yes the bad sectors won't be copied, but that will mean the data from those areas that is copied will be garbage because it is incomplete so it will need to be corrected.

[@greybeard5774]

If your disk has bad sectors, the entire cloning can fail and no disk check can help.

[@trueriver1950]

​​@@greybeard5774 that actually depends on the software you are using AND on the actual errors. One use of a disk cloning program is to get a copy of all the readable data that you then give to your recovery program: that way your recovery program does not risk corruption the original data. It will very often be possible to recover most of the files from a non encrypted system that has a sprinkling of bad sectors. Whether that's worth the effort largely depends on whether you kept backups: which of course you always do anyway, right? 😉

[@warwagon]

Personally, i'm still using True Image 2016. Mostly because it still works. I just like how you choose the source and destination while cloning. Its so simple. I find Macrium reflect to be less straight forward when it comes to cloning than True Image 2016.

[@FlyboyHelosim]

True Image 2016 is a bit of a gem. I've got a copy of it saved in my software archive. In the last few years I've been using True Image 2020, but that's just not as good. It's bloated and has a bunch of unnecessary stuff added such as anti-ransomware functionality that makes it much more of a system hog. It's also terrible at calculating the time a clone will take, often it's only half of what it says.

[@Jamman4life]

Thank you man, you are a gigachad! 👍

[@diggee172]

I love your desk. Most desk thes days are not deep enough for me. Did you make it yourself or is available online?

[@bi0lizard1]

Ty for the video. 👍 I think I’m just too old now to understand this stuff. Getting old sucks.

[@TheForce_Productions]

Thank you for taking care our pockets Rich!

[@CyberCPU]

Any time!

[@sunilshrestha6251]

@@CyberCPU I'm in a bit of a bind. I tried setting up a dual boot with Linux, ran into partitioning issues, and now I'm stuck with "bad image error.exe" messages and file corruption problems. I've tried SFC scan, system restore, and reinstalling Windows, but nothing's worked. Any chance you could help me out with this?

[@fragalot]

it's also a good idea to run disk cleanup to remove crap to make the cloning process be a little faster. you might also go through some of your user files you may want to delete, or move to another drive, to help speed up the cloning.

[@trueriver1950]

That depends. Clean up will not help a sector by sector copy: which by definition copies every sector (at least, every readable sector) If doing a file by file copy then your advice is spot on. The fewer files to copy the sooner it's done 😊

[@SignorFurio]

Thanks worked great! XD

[@aleksandergjengst782]

WOW,after having issue by issue trying to boot OS onto a new ssd and new m2 slot this was by far the EASIEST way😅 ..took five mins🔥🔥

[@mudnwitthemob]

Did it reset all your PC Settings and make u essentially like reset your Pc or was all data and settings saved through the cloning process?

[@booom2314]

Thank you!

[@UberGeek]

Thanks! I have been using Acronis forever, it appears. Good to know there is a great alternative. I have Sabrent USB 3.0 To SATA/IDE Adapter that includes a power supply for SATA. I also use SSK M.2 NVME SSD (to USB C) Enclosure, both work great.

[@CyberCPU]

I love acronis but it's not free.

[@sunilshrestha6251]

I'm in a bit of a bind. I tried setting up a dual boot with Linux, ran into partitioning issues, and now I'm stuck with "bad image error.exe" messages and file corruption problems. I've tried SFC scan, system restore, and reinstalling Windows, but nothing's worked. Any chance you could help me out with this? @@CyberCPU

[@josemedeiros007]

@@CyberCPU There are free versions of Acronis for Seagate, Western Digital, Crucial and Kingston drives. I also noticed that Acronis was an option in the Hirens Boot PE version you showed in your video, is that version not free to use?

[@CyberCPU]

​@@josemedeiros007 unfortunately the acronis in hiren's boot CD requires a license to use.

[@karmicselling4252]

Thanks for the video. Easiest method is to clone existing HDD to an SSD of equal or larger capacity. Clonezilla does take a while to complete the cloning but it is probably the most reliable method of all. Obviously a good idea to back up all your data before doing anything like this. It is useful to run chkdsk or sfc on the C: Drive of the HDD to detect and fix any errors before cloning the HDD. That will take extra time especially with a large HDD but worth it for the peace of mind. I recently cloned a 2GB HDD to an external 2GB SSD via USB. Total size of files was in the order of 1.7GB. The whole process inc. an initial "chkdsk c: /r" took just over 3 hours using a 5yo Lenovo Notebook with an Intel I7 processor and USB 3.0. Installed the SSD into the Notebook and it's running a treat. Cheers from the Land Down Under.

[@FlyboyHelosim]

Do you mean a 2TB HDD? There's no way cloning a 2GB HDD should take over 3 hours. Also, there's now Rescuezilla, which is Clonezilla but with a GUI. It's what most people are switching to.

[@NeverlandSystemZor]

ooooh I NEED this... literally.

[@toxichomicide3393]

Your vid just helped me man thanks

[@kokodin5895]

you CAN clone bigger drive to smaller drive with clonezilla though if partition is smaller than destination drive or is it the last partition on a drive and the total used space is smaller than the size of a target drive you can enable an option to ignore destination drive checking. if you avdenturous you can also try scaling filesystem partition table proportionally the only problem with clonezilla i see is lack of support for cloning raid0 drives indyvidually

[@user-sc3ns1cg1j]

Excellent tutorial, Can you please advise whether this copy all application registration with their key.

[@scktch8933]

Hello, I follow most of your videos and they are very useful I wish you success in your business I work in a computer store. Most computers come without Windows preinstalled So I install Windows for each device, one unit at a time I also download the hardware drivers for each device from the factory website This consumes my time and effort Also, duplicate the loaded drivers Do you have solutions? like Installing Windows on five devices at the same time, automatically installing drivers and applications .. something like that please

[@brettess52]

The Lazesoft disk cloning software is really comprehensive. But if your target disk is bigger than 80 GB you'll need to purchase the registered version.

[@davidwayne9982]

I do it regularly with BALENA ETCHER-- and no issues yet... works GREAT- simple-- so simple a ...... man can do it (to paraphrase an insurance commercial).. I keep data on a Separate drive from any of my op systems (and I am running 3 different ones right now)... I've done this a lot of way- including DD etc... but it's just MUCH cleaner, neater, and easier with BALENA ETCHER and it doesn't MATTER how it's connected..

[@genabuksuet]

Etcher for the win! Tested and trusted!

[@drdr73]

easiest clone i did was from my existing toshiba 500gb hdd to samsung evo..1tb.using the Samsung migration app....fantastic....no data loss....no hassles with bitlocker locked source disk...bitlocker can be a P-i-t-a when not wanted...i faced with macrium reflect 2 yrs ago....when cloning was free using that app

[@The_DuMont_Network]

Man, I disable Bitlocker awhile back when it bit me rather severely on my hindparts. I have other ways of securing my data involving physical locks and poweder actuated tools.

[@RainHeaven]

you rock, thanks for solving my problem..

[@arniep740]

Thank you for this video. I followed this method exactly to clone my Dell Optiplex 7010 W10Pro to a NVME 2tb in a USB adapter. The clone took about 20 hours and put up a note that it was successful. I then disable the internal SSD and set the BIOS to boot from the USB connected NVME. It gave me the following errors: 1. No boot sector found, Press F1 2. F1 rebooted and this resulted in the W10 logo on the screen for a while before it threw up a message: "stop code: inasscessible boot device" 3. IT then rebooted itself and gave the message "No boot disk found", press F1 4. WHen I pressed F1 this time, it threw up a list of choices for F1 through F9. F4 and F5 booted it into SAfe Mode, F5 being with network. These both worked. So now I have this machine which will boot into safe mode from the clone, but will not boot normally. Any suggestions as to what I may have done wrong and how to fix it? Thanks....ArnieP

[@skorpian34]

I'm a tech but out of practice and my training was 15 yrs ago. I'm trying to brush off the cobwebs. You may have solved your issue already. If not. Or in case it helps others.. my somewhat similar problem may help you. I cloned my drive following advice here and ran into a snag when I couldn't boot up on the new drive. 'No operating system found'. And the old drive would not work as a boot disk via usb. And I did not want to tear down the laptop again to pop the old drive back in because it was almost a complete teardown to access the hard drive bay. And stupid me, no backup of any kind, or recovery disc. I ran hardware diagnostics. The new drive passed all the tests as did the new ram stick I added. Then I used Hirens to boot up and checked the partitions. The cloning process added a new partition to my target drive. I didn't want to wipe the possibly wrong partition to try and get it to work. So I booted up with Hiren's boot cd PE (on bootable usb) did a list disk, select disk, then clean in diskpart. Then made it GPT. Then create partition primary. Followed by a fresh install. ( I had to let the windows install process DELETE the partition then chose NEW.) So note to me for the future, note size, type and order of partitions and do a full system backup and/or recovery discs or system image to external usb hard disc in case something goes awry during the cloning process.

[@pharphrobrien401]

Nice desktop wallpaper!

[@CyberCPU]

Thanks! 😁

[@sunilshrestha6251]

I'm in a bit of a bind. I tried setting up a dual boot with Linux, ran into partitioning issues, and now I'm stuck with "bad image error.exe" messages and file corruption problems. I've tried SFC scan, system restore, and reinstalling Windows, but nothing's worked. Any chance you could help me out with this?@@CyberCPU

[@jaymurray6051]

You seem to know your stuff love to see you fix my pc with its constant Dissapearing D drive an inability to use it when it does appear

[@Knards]

A suggestion: A tutorial on how to fix CLSID and APPID errors from event viewer. "This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool." I saw one years ago, but this is now :)

[@matthewjv123567]

You get SATA to USB dongles which support a power input for those that need it.

[@The_DuMont_Network]

The boxes which supply local power with a couple of SATA slots and an old interface cable are cheap, reliable and simple to use.

[@kenmorris2858]

Great tutorial and many thanks. Love the car models on the shelf. I see a 1967 Pontiac GTO , 1960s VW pickup stretche and a 1960s Porsche Spyder. Is the other car a 1968 Dodge Charger? Love the old muscle cars and hot rods...Cheers from Nova Scotia.

[@CyberCPU]

Yes, it's a 68-69 RT. There's also a Murcielago if you look close.

[@CyberCPU]

Ohh, you can't forget the Back to the future DeLorean. 😂🤣

[@sunilshrestha6251]

I'm in a bit of a bind. I tried setting up a dual boot with Linux, ran into partitioning issues, and now I'm stuck with "bad image error.exe" messages and file corruption problems. I've tried SFC scan, system restore, and reinstalling Windows, but nothing's worked. Any chance you could help me out with this?@@CyberCPU

[@chrissimpson1183]

I remember diskcopy in the DOS era...

[@ObakuZenCenter]

Damn, that's such a blast from the past. Thanks.

[@aubsmm]

That was for floppy disks not hard drives

[@skatcat743]

Clonezilla can expand to full size too.

[@trueriver1950]

Yes: good free software in both senses of the term; and it's well tested as it's been around forever...

[@b.g.4147]

@CyberCpu Tech I think ive been watched your video about Ultimate Windows Tweaker and you show changes we can in regeddit etc to reduce it's high usage, but i cant remember

[@marilyngullette2059]

Thank you

[@richh650]

Good video. Does this work on a Win 10 PC that would not load Win 11 due to being slightly out of spec for Win 11? I want to use Win 11 in the future on my PC, so can one use this method to load Win 11 instead into the Win 10 when swapping disks?

[@grimsnig]

I did this just as you say but I couldn't get my laptop to boot to the thumb drive with my other laptop's source disk connected to my hosting laptop. So I had to start my hosting laptop with the boot drive then plug in my source drive through the USB and I already had plugged in the new SSD to my host laptop USB. It worked perfectly. But I can tell you it took 2 hrs trying to get the boot drive to load instead of the source drive. Crazy. but I got it thanks to you and this video. Some other cloning software may not have liked how it had to go through 2 USB ports to transfer that data efficiently.

[@GiC7]

Thanks

[@Z-Universe]

Do you have to boot into the hirens boot OS or can you use the original OS drive to make the clone

[@bkThund3r]

I use the dd command in linux when I have to clone an old hdd/ssd to a new one. Never tried it with windows partitions but in theory, it should work as it copies everything. Just need a USB with any linux distro', your old hdd installed or on a USB dongle, and new ssd installed or o. USB dongle. Be careful when running the dd command as it can erase the wrong drive.

[@AceBoy2099]

I just did this to expand my proxmox disk. Ended up having to use my dual disk caddy that has a clone function to make the clone then had to figure out how to resize afterwords.

[@ATEKXX]

can we see some performance tests & New features on WIn 11 DEV build 24H2! :)

[@Eostrixadvent]

I just cloned my hard drive to a new SSD I bought recently, and wanted to use the Hard drive as a backup for my computer. I was wondering if there was any way I could turn on the disk inside of the program disk management without corrupting the data?

[@guildfly51]

Meant to ask just been watching how does this work for things like installed programs like steam, discord and so on will i need to re install or will they all be in the same place. Thanks very much

[@GeekDynamicsLab]

All the software versións in hirens boot CD are the last free available, so all are free to use and all are the original versións

[@ObakuZenCenter]

Good information. Thank you.

[@rashmipatel4602]

There was a little round sticker on that screw (that holds the SSD Drive) which I have now removed (This is my very first time opening this laptop ever) That screw (that holds the SSD Drive) is NOT budging, what do I need to do to loosen that so that I can switch that out with my new SSD drive?

[@PaganWizard]

In this video, you created a clone of your C drive, or the drive containing your OS. I have a secondary internal drive that I want to replace, but only because of size. This drive is also where I installed all of my Steam video games, close to 2TB, and I'm upgrading to a 6TB drive. Can you do a similar video showing how to do this please??

[@CesareVesdani]

HDD & SSD clone is fun.

[@joseparada4430]

A doubt. Clone disk will contain a System (usually Windows), Can I delete it ? Better leave it? What do you suggest about it?

[@gregorykackosky1303]

tahnk you!, >> have you avices to manage/preserve free space at ssd drive to longer drive life?

[@KeithHanlan]

A much simpler and safer way to clone a drive (Windows or otherwise) is to boot Linux from a USB thumb drive and use the 'dd' command. This avoids all the risks of reading from an active file system, including your c: drive. No suspect third-party software is required. There are even options to tolerate bad blocks on the original drive. If the new drive is larger than the original, you can extend it using the standard Windows partition management tools.

[@227giorgio]

Ty that was easyyyy

[@aaronbeaty3980]

@CyperCPU: Video suggestion: Initially, you brought up CHKDSK /F, which is great. You might try doing a video on CHKDSK (/F vs. /R)? /R tries to remap sectors on disk platters with bad sectors, and use the NTFS journal to do it, which is why it takes so long.

[@CyberCPU]

Yes, that's true. However, I haven't been in a situation where I needed R instead of F and F is a lot faster.

[@sunilshrestha6251]

I'm in a bit of a bind. I tried setting up a dual boot with Linux, ran into partitioning issues, and now I'm stuck with "bad image error.exe" messages and file corruption problems. I've tried SFC scan, system restore, and reinstalling Windows, but nothing's worked. Any chance you could help me out with this? @@CyberCPU

[@atimeofshadows]

A quick question. My C drive is only 240GB SSD and is getting full quickly, even though I have installed a 4TB SSD and try to put everything onto that, it still stores extra bits onto the C drive (which I understand it needs to do.) which is filling it and slowing everything down. I just want to make sure I understand this correctly. If I buy a new 1TB SSD. I am able to move Windows 10 and all the contents of my current C drive onto the new 1TB SSD, to make that my new boot drive and C drive? Am I correct with that assumption?

[@bengie23]

Process 1 didn't work for me, for whatever reason the new ssd wasn't bootable, but process 2 worked perfectly, thanks!!

[@ausfoodgarden]

Does the Lavasoft software copy disks with errors? I've tried to clone an old SSD to an NVME with Clonezilla but it keeps saying there are errors even though the original drive works fine and Windows doesn't find any problems. I'll give it a go anyway.

[@rik0u151]

Great video as always! Dose anyone know If i try to clone a SSD (i use it as my main for windows) to a new samsung nvme with higher storage, can i use the data migration in the samsung magician program and be done with it? Dose it automaticaly do the necessary steps to handle the partitions or i have to do it manualy?

[@tatertotbot]

Best video ever

[@jimed5174]

Links?????

[@c.rosenfeld]

I use NIUBI Partition Editor

[@B._Smith]

My new laptop loads hiren's but has no mouse from the track pad. I read in some forum my computer is too new there is no driver in hirens that works 😢

[@RobertKeenanComp-U-Right]

Thanks for the video, could I ask what type of desk your using?

[@CyberCPU]

It's actually not a desk. They are two adjustable work benches from Home Depot.

[@RobertKeenanComp-U-Right]

May I have The Name Or Link Please?@@CyberCPU

[@sunilshrestha6251]

I'm in a bit of a bind. I tried setting up a dual boot with Linux, ran into partitioning issues, and now I'm stuck with "bad image error.exe" messages and file corruption problems. I've tried SFC scan, system restore, and reinstalling Windows, but nothing's worked. Any chance you could help me out with this?@@CyberCPU

[@Jeff1960G]

Thank you for the video. Question from a newbie, please excuse me if I don't explain to well. I have a 500gb SSD running Windows 10 on my desktop and I was told by my system that it (CPU) is not compatible with Windows 11 upgrade; That really means I would need an entire new build probably (my current gaming comp is 7 years old and well tweak back then) and if so, can I take my SSD and install on a new computer/motherboard? I would hate to lose all my files and have to start all over. Thank you again!

[@mikimouse3001]

you're making things a little more complicated than they should be. just get a usb stick , install ventoy on it then add a clonezilla live image on it and youre set. i've backed up my hdd to an iso image and it took less than 10 minutes with a resulting file size of 13 gb, and to restore the image to a new hdd it only took it around 7 min. the backup was done via usb on another usb stick. it works so well it feels like magic.

[@Diesel735]

Migrating "only the OS" from desktop 2TB HDD with a large data partition to a Crucial 500GB SATA SSD didn't work with the included True Image cloning software. Just stops processing at one point. Clock keeps spinning and then suddenly disappears? Macrium reflect free V.8 appears to have an option for selecting partitions off the HDD and clone to smaller SSD.... Not sure if this will work? Want to keep the 2TB HDD in the desktop as a cheap storage drive.

[@Sai-fx1vt]

do i just format my hdd after cloning all the data to my ssd if i still want to use it?

[@brooksstephens7309]

Macrium reflect is by far the easiest option.

[@christopherwilson248]

Hey boss, does this work for transferring windows from lets say a 2.5inch ssd to an m.2 SSD? Love the work!

[@IIQuickII]

Should work!

[@FlyboyHelosim]

I recently cloned my internal SSD to an external HDD, which I do for backup purposes, but this time it took over THREE times as long to clone LESS data. I used the exact same system and methods as I do every time. Anyone have any ideas why it's now suddenly taking so long?

[@Rudizel]

Not working, followed everything to a T and it blue screens on the new m.2 something about missing boot files. Re did it 3 times. Also something that is not in this video is the new version of this cloning program has a option now to create a new disk signature automatically checked, do we make a new one or clone the old disks signature over?

[@digitallightandsound]

Got a ssk that was used for a windows Op. I tried formatting it on my mac but when I got done with the format the drive stoped disappeared.any clue as to what might have happen, and how to fix it?

[@fbifido2]

@20:13 - if you did not do a sector-by-sector copy would it allow you to copy a 1TB HDD (that has only 60GB of data+os) to a smaller SSD, eg 256GB ??

[@bdwilcox]

It depends on the cloning software's capability.

[@joeschafer1]

Since the video was made, Lazesoft disk clone wizard has added option to "Create a disk signature of your target disk that differs from the signature of your source disk." Should I leave that option checked or unchecked? Thanks for the Video!

[@joeschafer1]

Actually you do probably do want to leave it unchecked, as a new signature will generally mess up your windows installation. It is not hard to change the signature after making the copy. to see disk signature on existing disk diskpart list disk select disk 0 ---or what ever volume your disk happens to be uniqueid disk you can take the id given by the last command and set your new disk to it by typing: uniqueid disk id=youridfromabove replace youridfromabove with disk signature that you want.

[@joeschafer1]

Just make sure to remember to remove one of the disk before you boot and never put two disk with the same signature on the same system when you power it up (because windows will auto change one of the signatures to avoid a signature conflict)

[@Samuitsuki]

My first cloning didn't work, I did another attempt where I had unchecked the "create a disk signature of your target disk that difffers from the signature of your source disk" and that worked, but not entirely sure if that had anything to do with it.

[@vla2uv]

Here is the scenario: using Aomei Bacupper and do a backup of your system drive and the system drive is installed on a particular brand and specifications, and on some point it crashes; buy a new SSD on a different brand and specifications with at least the same capacity on which you want to restore the previous backup; can it be restored that backup in such case like this? Namely, should the restoring SSD be the same brand and specifications, with the backed-up one or can it be different? Hope you can and would answer to this comment since you never mention this scenario in ANY of your video either of backing-up or cloning circumstance.

[@CaptOverShoot]

Hi Rich, How about doing it again X3, I have the Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE 1.0 MoBo it has two M.2 connectors. I currently have the ( M.2A_ CPU ) occupied with the operating system , I wish to fit a faster and larger M.2 in it's place. Could I insert a new M.2 drive into the slot below ( M.2B_SB ) then clone the main drive, then swap it into the M.2A_CPU slot? Window 11 pro 64 Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE 1.0 , Ryzen 7 5800X3D, LPX 32GB (DDR4-3200) Gigabyte RTX™ 3060 Ti Gigabyte 1TB M.2 PCIe NVMe "C" Drive

[@bradspitts3077]

I had a password on my windows source drive, Does the destination drive remove the windows password from source drive during the cloning process??????

[@kyridd]

What if i dont want data on the target drive deleted? im just trying to move all files over. The title does say "without losing data" after all.