How To Copy A Disk Drive FAST & FREE DATA Cloning

[@geofftottenperthcoys9944]

Pissed off that Macrium has chosen their new subscription crap, still running the free version absolutely fine.

[@OsX86H3AvY]

same here!

[@mikebaker2927]

Good concise video Mike. Cheers.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@rickh8380]

Thanks Mike. Bought a 2TB Fikwat NVMe drive off Amazon when they were on sale for $100usd. Current one is only 1TB. Thanks for sharing Mike and Lady Kath. Take care all. Cheers

[@mikesunboxing]

those are great value, i might get another when i finish writing this :-)

[@jamesdegriz]

Cheers Mike. Great timing! Need to clone a system disk to NVME. Thanks!

[@mikesunboxing]

hope it helps

[@D_8KEN]

ooh a disk genius competitor!

[@mikesunboxing]

yeah disk genius is great, like that one a lot

[@mattscomp]

Nice video Mike. I'll have to give this software a go sometime. Thanks and have a good xmas. 👍

[@mikesunboxing]

thanks and you too

[@JohnDavidSullivan]

Great!

[@mikesunboxing]

it is a really good app, very handy

[@colinhilton6067]

Good video Mike.Well explained.Thank you for sharing it with us 👏⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@OlettaLiano]

Thanks Mike. I downloaded it and will give it a try next time I buy a new M.2. On a different subject, do you know any software that will hopefully improve my memory? I keep recording my GTA Online game play and forget to stop the recording when I'm done playing. I just opened the AMD Adrenalin software, ready to play my game and found it was still recording, over 16 hours worth. LOL

[@mikesunboxing]

that is a lot of footage! time for a youtube channel?

[@OlettaLiano]

@@mikesunboxing No. Any videos I'd make would be as boring as me.

[@ice4278]

Hey Mike can I do a exact copy of the operating system on the computer itself. Without taking the c drive out of the PC.

[@mikesunboxing]

yes you can

[@ice4278]

If you get the time would you show the steps to go through to do that

[@Senrab46]

Dont laugh but I keep seeing Hasleo name pop up when closing windows and couldn't recall why...its an age thing haha Seriously great timing as intending to swap a partitioned 1Tb nvme to 2Tb in near future. One partition of 500Gb is for operating system so will have to reinstall the o/s plus all my apps too? Assume I will have to do this twice so the 2nd partition goes from 500Gb to 1.5Tb on new nvme. Lastly is your new drive fresh as shows 600hrs? Thanks Mike and Kath for thorough tutorial as always. 😺👍

[@mikesunboxing]

the drive was "nearly new" can't wait for the post Christmas sales to get some fresh stock

[@lorderectus1849]

Mike cloning his breadcrumbs 🥖

[@mikesunboxing]

yeah got to be done

[@DavidUnderhill]

sounds good, but I already have macrium reflect

[@mikesunboxing]

macrium was the go to for a long time until they stopped the free version updates

[@mda5003]

Any reason why this software adds a background process which if deleted stops it from running until re-activating it? It's there every time you reboot or restart the computer.

[@mikesunboxing]

is it the shadowcopy service?

[@mda5003]

@@mikesunboxing Yes, I guess it could be so that it can activate automatically.

[@sjococo]

The real fun starts when cloning a big hard drive that has problems like a corrupted MBR... slow process, too big log files from certain programs for your boot drive so it exits after cloning 75% of a 2 TB hard drive... Days wasted...

[@darthbubba866]

Does it verify the copy against the original?

[@mikesunboxing]

there is an option for that i believe

[@suminshizzles6951]

If you go from samsung to samsung drive, they provide softare for free that will transfer data over. I have used Acronis in the past and also the samsung software. Both work fine. On linux its the dd command coupled with gparted. Not as easy on linux. I trust those "inexpensive" chinese named drives about as far as i can throw them. Which is not very far at all. I wont use them.

[@mikesunboxing]

the chinese drives mostly use the same controllers and dram as the expensive ones, you are paying extra for the brand and the warranty

[@W3RN3R318]

These cheap drives use low quality nand and controllers, I'd just stick to Samsung or higher end models of Crucial. My Samsung 850 evo 250gb is 9 years old and still 96% drive health. Bought a cheap drive once, never again, lesson learned. Thanks for the video.

[@mikesunboxing]

the modern chinese branded drives mostly use the same controllers and dram as the more expensive branded ones, if you look at detailed reviews they will show the DRAM and the controllers, and there aren't a huge amount of them on the market, you are paying extra for the brand name and the warranty

[@W3RN3R318]

@mikesunboxing there's more going on behind the scenes than just using the same hardware. Firmware being the most important factor and how it affects the overall drives functioning. Samsung uses it's own in-house controllers.

[@MaffAndxu3jj]

We did not see the end result????

[@mikesunboxing]

you want to see my data?

[@MaffAndxu3jj]

NO! to see both files structures

[@Vialli100.]

Great programme, would never buy these cheap Chinese crap drives..

[@mikesunboxing]

most of the drives on the market, even branded ones are "chinese" drives or made there, or using the same parts