How to Clone/Copy Windows to a New Hard Drive (HDD) or Solid State Drive (SSD) - Acronis True Image

[@Maraksot78]

Wanna skip to a particular part of the video? Use the Time Stamps. :) Time Stamps 0:00 - HDD's are slow! Get an SSD! :) 0:48 - First you need to install your SSD 1:21 - Clone your drive with Acronis True Image 2:15 - Where to Download True Image 3:08 - How to Install and set up True Image 4:52 - The True Image interface 5:33 - Cloning your Old drive to your SSD 9:44 - Changing the Boot Priority in BIOS/UEFI 12:02 - Thanks for Watching! Like, Share, Comment & Subscribe! :)

[@olleplays1169]

Hey @Maraksot78 ! I was wondering, because i was planning to do the same as you did in this video but from an sshd to an m.2 nvme ssd. when it's done cloned and the boot priority order is organized, how can i delete my other sshd to get more available space in this disk?

[@olleplays1169]

Its fake

[@CybernerdShua]

@@olleplays1169 What's fake?

[@calvinabbott6920]

Used it as a Western Digital free aid, no purchase or information to Acronis was necessary.

[@karenward-johnson4958]

Western Digital now provide a more basic free version of Acronis for use with WD drives. It does cloning, back-up, New Disk and drive cleaning and I'm using it right now to clone my WD HDD to a WD SSD at no charge.

[@Mr.Pro55k]

Nice!! I ordered 1 wb blue 1 tb too, which probably includes this software

[@toycoma98]

Thats only if you are using a WD ssd right?

[@GC-rv2vp]

For somebody that only delves into the innards of their computer on rare occasions, and then immediately forgets everything, you made the mystical, easy - thanks!

[@derrickfarthing5380]

This video was really helpful. I just cloned and swopped my original 128GB 90% full SSD c drive for a 1TB SSD. Everything works fine Thank you.

[@jimmynud]

Dude! Your videos have been clear and easy to understand. Thank you! I managed to successfully install a new SSD (as I needed more storage space) and clone my copy of windows for the first time. #feelinghappy

[@Mr.Pro55k]

I order a wb blue sata ssd that includes 5 year license of this software and honestly this was the easiest cloner application I've ever seen!!! I'll be glad to use it

[@rubyzeng9017]

I followed your steps but for the cloning tool I choose aomei and finally worked well, thank you

[@makw8148]

is it free?

[@keyiwan5947]

it cannot let me clone gpt to gpt disk anymore not to say mbr to gpt

[@Vicky-zd3uv]

try partition assistant dear

[@alexbuentello7]

I was sooo confused and scared about trying this but you definitely explained it perfectly thank you 😭👌

[@lauryn1111]

This tool will not work for the disk with bad sector, but aomei did.

[@ZELATEUR]

Aww man I wish I knew this before building my pc so I wouldn't have to litteraly copy paste all my files and reinstall all my programs. Next time I know what to do. Wakanda Forever.

[@Maraksot78]

Ha ha ha, sorry I didn't get this one finished sooner for ya. :D

[@MrMikebutkus]

@@Maraksot78 You can't just copy a HD and put it into another PC. This program has that option but still need a license for the other PCs OS.

[@thegoldninja3213]

The first pc I built started off with just a cheap AMD Athon 3000g with 8gbs of ram and a 500gb HDD. I have slowly upgraded all of my parts to an RTX 3070, Ryzen 5 3600x, and 16gb of fast ram. Despite these upgrades I was confused as to why my pc still had trouble loading games and took a while to get up and running and recently learned that storage has a big impact on performance. I just bought a 1tb M.2 drive and am excited to experience faster load times! Thanks for the video

[@threemonkens]

Excellent tutorial! Spoken in simple terms and easy to follow Acronis software. This western digital customer loves that you made the link for initializing (from your previous video) so readily available. Just upgraded from a 750 gig hdd to a 2tb ssd without a single hitch! My almost 10 year old Asus q500 has never been snappier! THANKS SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Maraksot78]

You're very welcome! Happy some of my videos helped you get through the process smoothly. Enjoy. :)

[@xudes11]

Why in gods name is it so fucking hard to just clone a boot drive and why is it suddenly $50 a year....

[@joshuahiggins2926]

Very helpful as I’ve had very little pc building experience I’ve used a lot of your videos to help me along the way. Every single one has been very helpful and worked each time

[@Maraksot78]

That's awesome man. So happy to hear my videos have helped you out so much. I wish you the very best my friend. Cheers! :)

[@captainfluffybear9163]

this video is very well made, you deserve more views

[@Maraksot78]

Thanks for checking out the video and for the very kind comment. Best of luck to you cloning your drive.

[@felicitybrown368]

but this tool cannot let me clone my bad sector what to do

[@ajohn4320]

I use ao mei to clone it works nicely

[@fc2078_]

SSDs are way faster, man. Thank you for the video, just what I needed to help with the SSD upgrade.

[@siminye8037]

I used to clone with acronis but for now I meet bugs and cannot clone, really upset

[@Vicky-zd3uv]

Cloning failed with Acronis but worked with Ao mei backupp, this one is better.

[@EQ-Cinematics]

Is it free?

[@nathansmall5976]

@@EQ-Cinematicsit costs $40

[@jontoubeaux7361]

Thanks for the easy to follow tutorial. Worked perfectly in my Dell Inspiron 5675 desktop. I had a 3TB HDD from 08/2015 and switched to a new 1 TB WD SN570 NVMe. I removed my HDD, restarted and the Dell recognized the NVMe as primary boot immediately, no issues. I began by using Macrium but it kept giving me errors (0 & 23) so I used Acronis (got it free because I had the WD drives) and it cloned in one take - approximately 30 minutes for approximately 250 GB.

[@Lexington101]

Thank you, straight and to the point. I wish more videos were as easy to follow as this one. Well done!

[@0xxhomie981]

just come to this video to make sure that I made no mistake when clone with acronis, because it didn't work at all, or I will turn to another tool

[@NebuloCity]

Hey bud, some friends of mine in the tech security industry recommended this video, as well Acronis and both totally delivered! Thank you so much for the simple walk-through. I’ll be sure to share with others who are looking to do the same sort of cloning.

[@ThunderDan88]

Liked and subbed. Exactly what I was looking for man. Between this vid and your "new drive install" vid, I feel comfortabale that I can upgrade my boot drive. Thank you thank you thank you. Now to find an "upgrade Ram" vid on your channel. :)

[@MrMikebutkus]

Very good. I forgot that program allowed you to use the HD in another PC. I bought a 2.5 SSD a few years ago, it has a program to copy that HD to another. But only that brand HD. I tried a "PC mover" program. I moved from a slow PC to a very fast HP desktop. same OS. It did move 80% of the programs and stuff, but icons and a website folder did not. Spend 3 hours checking for missing icons and fixing other problems. Plus a number of programs needed to be reinstalled, with the registration codes. Chrome would not update, so I ran a reinstall of chrome while it was open with my 12 windows and many tabs. Then had to re-log into everything. Chrome, Paypal, Facebook and other programs as non of the "saved passwords" were transferred. It didn't transfer Notepad for goodness sake ! An yes...every MB seems to have a different BIOS and key to press. These newer motherboards have so many options.

[@JB_TheRock]

What if I had a current m.2 drive and want to upgrade to another m.2 drive with a larger capacity? My current one is the boot disk that contains windows, how could I clone the drive and then remove it and put my new m.2 in the same spot on the motherboard?

[@liquidh6344]

Thanks. As a tip, consider buying a KLEVV SSD which comes with Acronis True Image 2018. I'm not affiliated to KLEVV. I just bought one. Thanks for the very clear video! I have subscribed!

[@treacherous9260]

Made my life so much easier. Thanks for the step by step!

[@Maraksot78]

You're welcome. Best of luck to you. :)

[@shamchewali8823]

Brilliant set of videos. Just upgraded my SSD drive and didn’t mess up once (fingers crossed). Does my old SSD drive still have all the cloned data on it and if so how do I get rid of it? Just delete it all from windows???

[@richsq1]

Thank you very much...good video...I have to do mine and did not know if it was complicated or not. Now I can do it with your information.

[@nas1m]

Great video, will be planning to upgrade to a SDD.

[@ri3tz921]

this video was soo helpful just taken over an hour to go from source disk to destination though lol

[@Vicky-zd3uv]

So I plan to move the os to ssd so I can boot from it and save other data on hdd, I cloned successfully with partition assistant.

[@MrMikebutkus]

Yes, just change the boot to the SSD, if your old drive is there you can delete the windows folder and use that space for data. These programs won't allow you to just copy the boot and windows on the SSD so you need a SSD the same size as your present boot. I do believe if the current boot drive is bigger then the SSD, but all the data is still smaller then the SSD drive, it will run. Prices have dropped in the past year, a 1 TB is under $50 ! The move to the M.2 is the new thing, but your MB has to be just 4 year or younger ?

[@yasim9435]

In many cases clone is done for the purpose of upgrading to bigger drive. In such case there will be additional steps needed to move unallocated partition and merge it with main boot partition.

[@dravenripley9468]

Can you help me?

[@MrMikebutkus]

I do believe the newer programs allow for this. It may have to reboot and then restart to "allocate" the larger space. I've done that, but the warning "make a backup". But since you still have the old HD and you do it right away, the old HD would by your safety. eg power blackout, PC freezes.. that stuff.

[@MilkyChocolate9999]

Hi, I already have an SSD card installed into my pc but I want one that's got more storage and faster, what can I go about doing to copy from an already used SSD to the new one

[@rougeneon1997]

Thanks for the content. Ive been wanting to do this for some time now. I also want to keep my mechanical drive for storage.

[@enzuki]

What about if I want to only clone a partition? As I have a 1TB HDD thats partitioned however the new SSD is only 512GB so is there a way to only clone local disk (C:) as with both disk (C:) and (D:) combined is already more than 700GB

[@NT-gw5tx]

Exceptionally helpful. Definitely a channel to follow

[@francishernandez2779]

Novice Builder here your videos are very helpful

[@mafu2667]

is initializing the drive(new SSD {target disk}) necessari?

[@plasticman2k]

Honestly MS should allow us to clone our own drives

[@sheryne011]

I have a 1tb hdd and got a new 120gb ssd. Which cloning method ahould i select of the three??

[@sheryne011]

I just want to boot my windows to get better speed on my ssd

[@nightstringers]

I hope this process is that easy .I will find out. I'm getting my bigger m.2 today .

[@quichris6432]

I installed new hard drive in my pc. At first it works well. I turn it off then turn it on again and I dont have a display anymore. And I made a boot usb with aomei backupper to boot it and clone my old one to another pc.

[@catxls1835]

Awesome, just what I was looking for!!

[@seangraylin]

Just wondering how this process will be affected with Windows 11 or Windows 10 machines that have a TPM chip enabled/encryption (most lickely bitlocker).

[@Matt909]

9:00 I SAW THAT FLEX! What is that thing anyways??? Is that the USB-3.0 Adapter?!

[@jkennan]

It worked and was suspiciously easy! Thanks!

[@RandyReviews1990]

did you pay the 34.99?

[@hmludlam]

It didn’t work for me when I try the last setup where I boot up using the new drive all I get is a blank screen HELP

[@alexg5531]

love this detailed and so helpfull to me video! Great explanation! Even Fuhrer coulndt say it better!!

[@kaw1997]

Need to update the drive on my HP omen that i use for Light room this seems helpful

[@IIMoonWalkerII]

7:42 Everytime I get to this stage and press next it loads for a small while and then nothing happens. Does anyone know what's happening? I have everything else sorted but it's always stops here. My version of Acronis has a "What to exclude" option under Disk Usage if that helps.

[@SNoCappidona]

I have this same problem and cannot figure it out. Were you able to get a solution?

[@marktorres2396]

Same

[@SNoCappidona]

@@marktorres2396 I was able to solve this problem and clone my hdd to my ssd using macrium reflect 7. The program is free with a quick google search and the cloning process was quite simple There is also a tutorial on youtube by 'random access' showing how to use it if you need. I suggest trying macrium to solve this issue.

[@cameronsmith5803]

Worked great! Thanks for posting!

[@lifebyreggie5744]

Nice video. Thanks.

[@Sammyking76]

So people of the internet. Stupid noob question for a noob pc builder. Recently built my first PC, and I'm already looking to upgrade it when I can. If I'm understanding this correctly. The Operating System, Windows would be on the SSD/Memory storage. So if I were to upgrade, let's say my Motherboard. Would it be safe? Like would it start up normally? Or would I need to start everything up? Also what is y'all advice in regards to Upgrading? What should I focus on upgrading first?

[@ccarlley]

Your video was great! Especially liked the indexing feature on scrolling through the timeline. Instead of the normal HDD to SSD, I tried SSD to HDD without success. I was trying to 'bounce' the clone from an NVMe to HDD back to ANOTHER NVMe because of single SSD capacity. The process was identical to yours but apparently these items did not transfer to the HDD: Boot, Page File, and Crash Dump. Only the Basic Data Partition transferred over. So I purchased an external NVMe enclosure today and will try again! Thanks.

[@markshone4606]

Just this just clone your windows or does it copy over the system reserved partions too

[@edwinramos5070]

Very well explained!!! Liked and subscribed!

[@shadowreaver752]

Just wanna say I didn't have to buy acronis when I got my new drive from crucial. It apparently comes with the drive. The app will need to verify a crucial SSD is installed first though.

[@TermiteDave]

Nicely done! REALLY helped me out!!

[@hundio88]

My laptop was so dang slow but since getting an ssd it freaking starts in seconds now! 😁

[@xdinosteel2561]

What if I already have a ssd install and want to replace it but don't know how to transfer my data before removing it?

[@bobbybenway9726]

I have a HP 19 all in one . I have an external sata cable but dose not recognize wd blue ssd when pluged into usb. it recognizes the old seagate , is there another trick to get it to show up?

[@christopheraaron8299]

Anyone know how good Western Digital's free cloning software is? I just bought a WD 500GB SSD to replace the 500GB HD in my Asus laptop.

[@philliphunter1981]

I’m in the same position I’m about to get that drive and that’s why I’m looking at this video

[@christopheraaron8299]

@@philliphunter1981 It worked perfectly for me. My SSD showed up this morning and it's installed now. It took a couple hours to clone, but my laptop has never been faster.

[@philliphunter1981]

How did you upgrade your internal drive I’m moving from a 256 gig m.2 to a 500gig (I don’t need more than that for my windows drive) m.2 now can I store the clone on a network drive or cloud based drive as the other m.2 slot is the WiFi card

[@christopheraaron8299]

@@philliphunter1981 That question is above my pay grade. All I did was replace my 500GB HDD with a 500GB SSD (2.5" SATA.)

[@philliphunter1981]

Ah right lol

[@BawesomeBurf]

Used the free version of this from Crucial's website, and it somehow cloned everything, while breaking the boot on both drives. It didn't matter which drive I plugged in, both asked for a keyboard language, then said 'Exit to Windows 10', it would reboot, and then ask for a keyboard language again. Had to re-install Windows with a USB key to get it to load the OS. Urgh.

[@kevinmartin9674]

Thank you!! Just what I was looking for!@

[@Ryan-sw4ti]

After choosing the destination disk, it just asks me to restart and nothing happens after restarting. Anyone experiencing the same?

[@Ayala-99]

Worked perfectly, thank you

[@lauryn1111]

Can I only move the OS to my SSD but keep the data on my HDD.

[@VinsonPersie]

yes you can

[@ebee-uz1oz]

i already used acronis cloning in Sept, which worked, however, i used it this last weekend, it took half the time to clone, had to do it twice, as the first time just failed. second time, cloned, was told to reset pc and when everything came up, my drive, the cloned one, was blank.

[@ahmedarchambault260]

Couple questions: I am planning on doing this with a computer. It currently has a Hard Drive, and I am going to install a SSD M2. When doing the clone part, do I need to format the new SSD first, or will that automatically be done during the cloning process? Also, I plan on removing the old hard drive, do I still need to go into bios to change boot priority, or will the computer automatically choose the new SSD with that being the only option?

[@isaacsteuer9713]

Can you clone an MBR drive to a GPT partitioned drive?

[@Tinker09]

He is always perfect to watch on 1.25x speed

[@yoimvic9934]

My pc won’t boot up it gets stuck on the start up screen as if it’s loading but it doesn’t load anything this is after I remove my old drive which I cloned everything from anyone have a fix

[@jeffdetmer9967]

I download the free version of Acronis Crucial. It would not work. Wondering is both drive need to be purchased for Crucial? BTW great video!!

[@qu1nn7885]

thank you so much! made it very quick and problem free :)

[@RandyReviews1990]

did you pay the 34.99?

[@qu1nn7885]

@@RandyReviews1990 erm. no?

[@RandyReviews1990]

@@qu1nn7885 how much is it now to Clone your hard drive?

[@ajohn4320]

But this tool has no feature to convert a disk after cloning, I used aomei partition assistant to clone and convert disk after that.

[@S4adowF2end]

Thanks for the guide! So after all the steps I can safely delete all the files from the old drive right?

[@foka2701]

Very nice video but my Acronis software for the newly purchased OEM SSD is indicating errors on source disk. Then it's freezing at some point. BTW source disk was checked for errors before starting Acronis an there were NO errors found.

[@aname4681]

Great video, does this work when upgrading ssds?

[@mecaupholsterytips]

Your videos are great O am goin replace my local drive

[@danielfennock3707]

Sadly acronis didn't work for me, I cloned as you did but it prompt an error and failed.

[@Vicky-zd3uv]

then dear you can turn to partition assistant, this one is nice

[@KARIM_HAMZA]

*Brilliant but how do I clone onto a new computer??*

[@myck7021]

Is it possible to clone just windows 10 itself and make it my boot drive I want my games and stuff to stay on my WD HDD but I want to boot my pc on my WD 500GB SSD there’s no way all my stuff will fit on My SSD and if it does it would be next to full

[@myck7021]

Unless of course that’s all that we’re doing here and I just miss understood

[@montoya11333]

Thanks for this video!!

[@mohamedyusif915]

A question plz. How did u clone a bigger storage which was 1.8TB to smaller storage 1TB ?

[@ryleycotton1688]

My PCB does not have 2 slots for m.2 I am trying to upgrade my 512 m.2 to a 1TB I have the 1TB plugs into the USB port and my 512 is in the computer in the program it does not populate the new m.2 on the clone page any help?

[@BRUNDYTAPES]

I just cloned my hdd to an m.2 ssd, but now my ssd is not being recognized in devises and drives. BIOS doesn’t recognize it either so I can’t make it my primary drive.

[@raazky]

Hello, What is a difference between "To Replace a disk on this machine" and "To use on another machine" ?

[@sauravbharti2709]

I get to an option. What to exclude, I dont't know what to do.. I want to select the whole C drive that is of 1 TB and filled about 100GB. So, If i don't tick any option in 'What to exclude' it selects even free space. How to remove free space from getting included?

[@7Wounds]

So that I get this right. If I have a SATA and am upgrading to a larger one, I can connect that via USB and clone it that way and then just swap em out correct?

[@Josh-fj9hi]

What if I just want to swap out my current nvme though? I can't put in another nvme when I only have the one nvme slot

[@reinaldomartinez13]

i have an issue maybe someone can help with, I've successfully cloned my ssd onto my new samsung ssd using the data migration software they provide. The issue is that when i switch the boot priority, it doesn't return to it's normal state using the new ssd, but rather a set up page for windows. I used a usb to boot windows when I built my pc 3 years ago, but even with copying those files onto the new ssd it wouldn't boot nor when using said usb it wouldn't boot.

[@MrMikebutkus]

Make sure you are "cloning" the disk. It is possible to copy a drive, but no boot sector.

[@michaellopez9533]

After I copy the OS into my new SSD and and change the boot order can I delete everything from my old SSD including the OS and still keep using it as a secondary storage?

[@MariosFoukkaris]

i have steelsiries artcis 9x and i can't conected to my pc if you have any idea pls reply in this coment

[@MalcolmJames-sg3zg]

Thanks great information

[@Thehomiejbo14]

I have a hp envy 700_327c and I don’t know if it can run big games like gta or something any recommendations on what to upgrade and how?

[@sofakingtim]

I bought a Dell Latitude without a hard drive installed. I bought an SSD but how to I load an operating system on it? I just get a black screen.

[@wfpddeck2240]

I did all of this, changed boot priority, now my Lenovo starts up exclusively in Automatic Repair. I can open BIOS and change boot priority back to the original hard drive, it boots windows no problem. Any suggestions?