How to Move Windows 10/11 from HDD to SSD

[@GMODISM]

NOTE! This is the Quick tutorial, if you have questions they might be answered by the full tutorial: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqHEqISGnKp6gpI [Also try this tool for a good partition wizard: shorturl.at/aiWX9 (sponsor)] WHEN you are done, you might wanna makes sure your drive is OPTIMIZED: kzbin.info/www/bejne/epqyd4CZnbyFZ5I AFTER ONE MONTH, you may reuse the hard drive HDD for storage, to do this, follow this tutorial: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZDdoHRuaNiEbaM

[@keaty1984]

Is this same principle for HDD to HDD ?

[@pervfox]

Can you tell by easeUS ?

[@GMODISM]

@@pervfox I don't use easeUS because of their limitations for the free version

[@GMODISM]

@@keaty1984 Yes exactly the same (sorry for late answer)

[@transit130]

@@GMODISM I have been looking for a few days for something like this to upgrade my other laptop. Found your description very easy to follow( I am a carpenter not a IT person) and understand, thanks for this.

[@flyingeekhoorn1692]

Thank you! This video was very clear, I can finally start up my pc without being able to have breakfast, go to the gym, go to church, and wake up from a nap. It boots so fast!

[@XX-bc3io]

Lol fr I would have to wait like 10min

[@Patatras_5325]

@@XX-bc3io me it only 1min of boot it good but with an ssd it will be faster

[@sethgarrick6320]

@@XX-bc3io half an hour for me

[@ghost_1153]

I want to transfer windows to mu ssd but i dont want yo delete everything in my system also i cant copy everything bc the ssd is only 500gb and i have well over 900gb of data on my hdd :/

[@sethgarrick6320]

@@nonamehere7571 built a new one 12.063 seconds now

[@WarMonkeyPlays]

I can't emphasize enough how helpful, thorough, and polished this video is. Just did my first system migration and it went _exactly_ as this did, no surprises.

[@SHAdow98V]

Question,if you switch from a HDD to SSD,your settings and all stay right? more importantly the activation of the windows also stays right? i want to also migrate my OS to an SSD and keep my HDD as games storage only,but idk if i switch my OS to an SSD will it just turn on after the whole process as if nothing ever happened? I know what to do and i think i explainend it poorly but you may be able to get my point,in short "after the migration does the system turn on as if nothing ever happened but from the SSD instead of the HDD? or does it still need all the fresh windows install steps and setups along with activation?"

[@WarMonkeyPlays]

@@SHAdow98V I didn't have to reactive anything in my case. Booting from the new drive was as if nothing had changed (except being much faster). But I am only speaking for my experience with this.

[@SHAdow98V]

@@WarMonkeyPlays k thx, was thinking of doing it myself but if i have to reactivate windows afterwards i might aswel do a fresh install

[@michaelpaglicci4806]

This tutorial is magic! I went from a 2TB Toshiba HDD to a 1TB SSD and everything worked perfectly. I was under 1TB on the HDD so moving everything to the SSD went smoothly and as described in the video. I still have wiggle room on the SSD for additional games and plan to put some of my lesser used games on the HDD. Great video!

[@GMODISM]

Awesome!🌸

[@nortongartino4602]

Hi, Michael. Great to hear that everything works out. However, did you lose your Windows 10 license after the cloning process? Because I'm thinking of cloning the drive but my PC was upgraded from Windows 8.1 to 10 and I can't find my original product key...

[@lewisjones284]

@@nortongartino4602 best way to find yours: regedit > Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SoftwareProtectionPlatform If you click on this folder there will be an object listed 'BackupProductKey'. That is a valid product key, and I believe it's the original one you used.

[@nortongartino4602]

@@lewisjones284 Thank you for your answer, Lewis. I'm going to try to find it once I got back from work. Thank you.

[@lewisjones284]

@@nortongartino4602 Hope it helps you, have a great day

[@GrizzlyClawss]

Alright so i disconnected my internet whats nex- User Has Left The Channel

[@luibirk4580]

I legit did this... twice

[@cytrixnation]

@@luibirk4580 BAHAHA same bro

[@spritzyee5417]

Hahaha y’all are funny as

[@faeemi7228]

Great video! I'm awful with installing new hardware and setting it up, but this video really made everything clear, and now my boot time has gone from 5 minutes to 25 seconds haha. Getting an SSD was so worth it and you made the process so easy. Cheers man!

[@GMODISM]

Glad it helped! After a month check out the follow-up tutorial and also check the ssd optimization video so that you get it's optimal performance :)

[@andrehena]

For some reason I couldn't enter the BOOT, so I unpluged the SATA and the computer after many restarts and forces shutdowns magically found the M.2 SSD :D Thanks for the video man, really awesome. I have a computer science dregree and I guess I know something about PCs, but after 5 hours trying different methods this tutorial saved me :D

[@AlexSmith-de2le]

Follow this step by step to migrate from a noisy and slow HDD and a SSD. Absolutely perfect, thank you. Results are great too

[@rotta4667]

First time I booted from an SSD successfully in my life. Huge thanks to you.

[@GMODISM]

That is great! Enjoy the speed!

[@KunouJS]

From a 2.5" 120GB SSD to an M.2 256GB SSD it took 17 minutes! It was incredibly simple to switch! It worked right away! Wish I had known about this program last year. Thanks, m'man!

[@Durmantguy]

Did you clone your data?

[@pancake5830]

how do you get by with just 256 gb?

[@Trayton]

@@pancake5830 an Operating System doesnt require more than 30 or 40gb really. Any more room you use would just be for high use programs or games. A separate storage drive of a greater size is usually used in conjunction with a solid state OS drive.

[@discowizard0803]

Mine did 5min

[@GMODISM]

Navigation 00:00 intro, beginners watch full tutorial instead in bio 00:21 installation of SSD (or HDD)' 03:01 SSD/HDD detected? 03:34 important preparations 06:17 moving windows to another drive 09:37 booting from your new fresh drive 11:30 check our SSD optimization video in bio for max performance 11:54 outro (watch the full tutorial instead if you have any questions)

[@barney8008]

I need help I’m stuck where I have to restart the computer !!!!! Plssss if you se this message add me to your discord

[@nortongartino4602]

H! Great video! Clear and concise. However, I was wondering, will I lose my Windows 10 license after I clone my Windows 10 OS partition (local disk C:) to a new SSD Drive from a HDD drive? Thanks in advance.

[@420Sean69]

Have you thought about remaking this with the new version of the software? I know it might be similar but the driver part is hard to find in the new ui

[@GMODISM]

@@420Sean69 hey! It is in the pipeline of remaking this one yes. And for Windows 11

[@willmayhew4256]

i was only looking to move over windows not the whole contents of the drive

[@thechosenace42]

Will Mayhew same....

[@kermer_3549]

@@thechosenace42 same

[@YoungHungryy]

You can’t just move windows you have to move everything or start over fresh

[@willmayhew4256]

YoungHungry thanks I ended up doing that anyway and it worked out fine

[@andrexsintoval3776]

@@YoungHungryy not neccessarilly

[@Lowenmensch408]

Thank you so much my friend, your tutorial really helped me upgrade my 2.5 inch SSD to NVME without reinstalling anything, so happy that I followed the steps and they work, liked and subscribed!!

[@Trump-The-GREATEST]

If you have a smaller SSD that u want to clone to from a bigger size HDD then for it to work easily you first MUST "shrink size" ur C: drive partition to as much as you can using 'Disk Manager' and mostly D. Manager would choose the size automatically. Once shrunk the empty Unlocated space will be untouched, then you will be able to drag all partitions from the HDD to the smaller SSD in cloning process! Worked 100% for me. Now onced the new SSD boots up and running fine, relaunch Disk Manager and now you will 'Expand' your Windows C: drive partition by selecting it & right clicking it. This process will just take a second and now the Unlocated space will merge into the C: drive as one & you will have use of ur whole drive's space like it was with the old hard drive!

[@lolieasy6184]

Hey man, you should pinned this comment to the top. Just saying.

[@georgekelly3412]

How and where do you go to shrink it?

[@Jack-cl4eb]

thank you so much you helped me more than you think

[@MrBigsky13]

Well done easy voice to listen to and you know your stuff cowboy.

[@hawkofthereborn43]

His English, or at the very least his accent, is not easy to listen to. Thank God for captions, and thank you to the person who made this video. Helped me out with getting off this old seagate barracuda 500gb 7200 rpm HDD

[@AceticTWO]

@@hawkofthereborn43 I'm not even native speaking and I understood everything fine. You handicapped or sum?

[@connermiles7425]

@@AceticTWO Probably handicapped or just born deaf

[@seidcubro1525]

@@connermiles7425 not deaf, just an asshole.

[@exicutioner161]

His accent is great and easy to understand, compared to other people’s’ accents I’ve heard before.

[@ahmadhaziq3802]

at first, I was scared if I messed up at a certain point but this tutorial is so clear and it teaches you from a-z. 👍🏼

[@Ho_itulah_tu]

me too bro, i think this tutorial is good, like in malay idioms"Saya budak baru belajar kalau salah tolong jolokkan"

[@Kamikazejets]

@@Ho_itulah_tu jolokkan aper tu bro

[@asadahmed800]

Cloning doesn't delete data on out previous drive right?

[@zzzzzzzz8998]

Dude it worked! 100%!!! Files, desktop, everything. Thank you for this tutorial!

[@GMODISM]

You're welcome mate!

[@tom66222]

Thank you!! This process worked perfectly for my switch over to a Samsung SSD from my stock Acer HDD. The only thing I had to troubleshoot was that both disks were categorized as "Windows Boot Manager" within the Boot tab in BIOS. I was completely and utterly confused as to why the SSD wasn't showing up as a boot drive in BIOS. I have no idea why my Windows 10 OS categorized them as that, but it did. Once I figured out that although both disks were labeled the same, that they were different I switched the boot drive and everything has worked out. Thanks for your help!

[@easternunit2009]

My grandma was so used to the slow HDD in her laptop, but then I just replaced it with an SSD and transferred everything from A to B, and she was surprised and shocked at how fast the response was. 😀😀😀

[@GMODISM]

Awesome!

[@frcreations6956]

my grand ma don't know what is a computer dude

[@meangene5104]

Great video. To avoid having to physically pull the old drive, I set it as first priority in BIOS before doing the clone. When you restart, it boots to the SSD as first priority, but will revert to HDD if something goes wrong. It worked for me because my system is a few months old so I haven't had too much time to pile a bunch junk in the HDD. It helps to get the largest SSD that fits your budget. For me, that was 480 gigs. My HDD is 4 TB. Plenty of space left after the transfer, which only took up about 60 gigs. Now I'm going to use the new system SSD drive with the HDD still connected and exactly as it was, but not as my primary boot drive. I'll wait a month as suggested and reformat it as a storage drive if all seems good with the SSD. Make sure you take his advice of moving everything during the clone, as opposed to bits and pieces of data. You might think you got all the Windows data in the partitions you chose, but if you miss anything, you may have trouble restarting. Just move everything. That's what I think has happened to those of you who are having this problem. If it's too big, then delete, prune and defrag the drive before you do this. Thx.

[@paco1022]

How do you write over the old hard drive when it’s been a month and you want to use it as an extra drive? Do you just plug it back in and delete everything on it?

[@meangene5104]

I haven't done that yet because I need to wait a few more weeks but I plan to simply reformat the drive

[@paco1022]

@@meangene5104 yea that was a pretty dumb question, all i had to do was format the drive in disk manager. I thought there was like a clean way to do it after a clean that you had to do or else it would make the drive unusable. But my clone to ssd was succesful and my 1tb drive is wiped.

[@meangene5104]

@@paco1022 mine worked too, glad it worked for you. I have a question about the SSD. Following his instructions, i set aside unallocated space on the SSD, but I set aside way too much and I want to extend the volume. He said to use Macrium. I've tried but can't figure out how.

[@meangene5104]

figured it out, using Windows disk management utility. You can expand and contract easily. Got it perfect now and system is blazing fast running off the SSD. I have the HDD disabled for now and will reformat it after using the SSD for a few more weeks, to ensure it's stable. So far so good. Thanks!

[@zolr3904]

To everyone that gets a boot up error (error code: 0x000000e, unable to locate winload.efi): remove all partitions from the current SSD that has all the cloned HDD data (basically like a factory reset) and redo the whole cloning process with Macrium Reflect as stated in this video. For some reason, during my cloning process it created a duplicate copy of the recovery and reserved system which caused them to clash with each other during boot and was what caused the winload.efi error. You can find out how to clear all partitions of a disk on KZbin as well as this guy's channel but a simple search should lead you to it. Tldr; redo the whole process again after removing all cloned partitions.

[@snuffy5836]

This worked absoultely perfectly for me ... if you follow the steps then this becomes a really easy tutorial on how to migrate your OS. Thank you so much my computer is now 100x faster :D!

[@GMODISM]

Great!

[@adrianfox7946]

Thank you for this tutorial , it’s easy to follow and has really helped me . I have avoided trying this transfer for sometime but this video gave me the confidence to get the job done . Thanks again!

[@GMODISM]

Glad to help mate!

[@gabo3color]

Isn’t it possible to just move the OS? I’ve heard that this alone might already increase the speed of the computer. My SSD is not that big...

[@GMODISM]

If you just want the OS it's better to install it freshly, otherwise you got to remove or more files until it fits, like answered by the full tutorial: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqHEqISGnKp6gpI

[@gkp76]

@@GMODISM Does that mean having to buy another Windows license or can you clone it over?

[@GMODISM]

@@gkp76 Everything including valid license is copied over, windows does not "know" you exchanged your drive

[@Gwubby]

gkp Correct me if I’m wrong but windows verifies your license by your Microsoft account now.

[@gamingkiller9975]

@Gmodism Total Nerdery Channel If I install windows 10 freshly, what will happen to my files on my hdd? I simply just don’t understand what will happen with the files and programs on the hdd since no explains it. Thanks in advance.

[@shotya9403]

Thank you man it was actually really simple with your help to do this, one thing tho partitioning and doing stuff with a half partioned c is wack but doable a bit more extra steps and i did manage to do it!

[@willisbroxson4385]

oh my god I waited 3 and a half hours and my pc went from booting up in like 5 minuets to like 20 seconds thank you so much holy crap.

[@devastator2773]

Awesome video! I only ran into one problem trying to defragment my HDD. My computer came with Intel Optane memory and it confused my computer into thinking I had a SSD so I could not defragment. After disabling Intel Optane everything worked. Thanks for the video!

[@rubyzeng9017]

macrium is not working now always failed to clone, suggest you guys use aomei

[@nickcorr7244]

Sag Svenska flagga, undrar om det var på grund att du är från detta landet. video var verkligen perfekt. Stor tack. Vi kommer att göra en transfer from ssd till nvme. 👍🏻

[@GMODISM]

Fantastiskt!

[@aaron8083]

More than a year later, and this video still did the trick for me! Thank you very much for this! I upgraded from a (seemingly) damaged 1TB HDD to a 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD (3rd gen I think?). The difference is day and night. I ran into some trouble during the partition slider thingy due to my software being a more recent version than yours, which changed some interface elements. I was particularly worried about my partitions because besides Windows I algo have Ubuntu. Before the upgrade the BIOS would ask me to choose what OS I wanted to boot up, but now it boots up straight to Windows, which isn't bad, but I wonder how to boot up Ubuntu if I ever need to again. Thanks again for the video, I don't know if you still read, let alone answer to new comments, but I feel like I must thank you for this, it feels like a brand new computer!

[@aha6781]

Hey, quick question. Does it work the same when using an M.2 SSD? Like he said in the video, that you should use the old SATA cable of the HDD to connect the new SSD, but the M.2 is directly connected to the motherboard. Can I just follow the tutorial disregarding this or is there anything you did differently?

[@aaron8083]

@@aha6781 Yes, when you get to the part when you must plug in your SSD just insert your M.2 drive like you normally would; I literally left a hole where my old HDD used to go, I didn't replace it with anything. Just "plug" in your M.2 and carry on with the tutorial.

[@aha6781]

@@aaron8083 Got it, thank you so much!

[@NedofThor]

Excellent tutorial, everything worked as advertised for me. Had to look at the removed HDD to confirm it was indeed uninstalled after I booted, worked perfectly!

[@GMODISM]

Great to hear!

[@dallen3000]

Btw, when seeing if you need to defrag, even if it says "0% fragmented" press the analysis button anyways. I just went from 0 to 22. Just saying I almost didn't press it.

[@mrgansau]

Thank you so much ! You,ve earn a subscriber. Everything works perfectly. Now my pc boots sooooooooo much faster with ssd

[@lutgenp6647]

This guy is an absolute legend for making this. I spent hours trying different cloning softwares and getting cucked by a pay wall. You my good sir are an asset to humanity I love you

[@GMODISM]

Glad it was useful mate! 😊

[@EliteGunZ143]

quick and easy tutorial.. helped me a lot with my first system migration, had to switch from hdd to ssd coz ive always had problems with loading times in-game.. thanks !

[@GMODISM]

Great to hear!

[@Vicky-zd3uv]

You can use aomei partition assistant it is better than macrium, no matter from its interface or function.

[@ricoyoungblood4493]

I like your display background! Sick wit it my brotha!

[@khingondating]

Thank you for the detailed version. I like how you told me to remove the internet cable. This was the issue as I kept getting errors. When I tried that it worked. Thank you again

[@GMODISM]

Glad it helped you!

[@khingondating]

Gmodism Total Nerdery Channel I liked and subbed

[@kristophermann6528]

OUTSTANDING! Followed every step, runs like a dream now.

[@duckguide4109]

Either that’s just your accent or the Sweden 🇸🇪 accent. I like it! By the way, nice video.

[@dimoronen]

While the video is great I have to say that yes it is the Swedish accent and as a Swede it hurts to hear the accent knowing I sound the same lol.

[@noven8259]

Thank you for the video, if I wanted to keep part of the files in the HDD (my HDD has nearly 1TB of files while my SSD has only 256gb of space) but move the OS to the SSD, what should I do?

[@LargeToastie]

Thank you so much for this video! Transferring my data safely was one of the main things putting me off getting an SSD but this video convinced me to get a Samsung one and the difference is too much to describe. Great video, thumbs up!

[@mathiasstorli2900]

Knew that this was going to be a great tutorial when i saw you were swedish! Skål!

[@GMODISM]

Glad you think so!

[@OptipyStudios]

Funny comment and the tutorial was, in fact, great but isn't that just a tiny bit discriminatory?

[@kendrickh733]

@@OptipyStudios why?

[@isaacpike4123]

parts of the partitions on the HDD are greyed out and wont let me drag and drop to the ssd, can you help?

[@the1pigeon]

execute the cloning program in administrator mode

[@NikoReid]

@@the1pigeon I did that & it still won't let me drag the rest over to the ssd, only 1 partition

[@the1pigeon]

@@NikoReid try reducing the size of the partition on the disk that is being written, then drag the other partitions in, and finally raise the size of the first partition back up. If that doesn't work then I'm afraid I can't do much for you

[@liveweyeractual]

Thank you so much. Got my SSD installed this weekend, night and day difference in the performance. I had an issue where my disk manager & BIOS did not see my SSD at first, had to change sata setting in bios to IDE, try to boot, BSOD, then change the setting back to AHCI then it worked. Don’t know what happened there but it’s working now.

[@GMODISM]

Great to hear!

[@invaderzim133]

Great tips, I had some issues going from a larger HDD to a smaller SSD that weren’t covered in this video but with a little searching around I fixed the issue and cloned flawlessly.

[@shapu7939]

Doing the same...

[@murco_]

what did you do

[@invaderzim133]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/aaSaZoqCZdF5hrs my issue was with resizing the partitions.

[@alejovargas5976]

Excellent tutorial, worked perfectly to switch from an HDD to my new Gigabyte SSD. I now have the SSD for system and the HDD for files. Many thanks

[@GMODISM]

Glad it helped!

[@jeffreylochner7310]

Very in depth tutorial. You should consider making more!

[@ch3rryvixen571]

Thanks man, really helped out a lot, now my boot up times have never been faster

[@GMODISM]

Great to hear!

[@hueybaloney8429]

My SSD is the same size as my HDD but the used space is about half. I got an error message saying the drive wasn't big enough. I don't know what to do as my old drive surely has extra room and is the same total space as the SSD

[@skaterman160]

Perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All worked well with no issues!! Thank you very much. My HHD was from 2008......... now it’s fully up to modern times

[@zahrulrahaman6645]

how can i transfer just only my window from hdd to ssd ? i have 400gb+ on my hdd and my ssd is only 250gb . So i just want to trnsfer my window to my ssd as my main OS .And if i format my hdd , will the window in hdd will be deleted as well ? can someone guided me ?

[@Wammm]

That’s not possible you can’t just transfer an os

[@frankwalder3608]

Your instructions worked exactly as you said! I was very impressed with the Macrium Reflect software, which is now up to version 8. I have since paid them the $75.55 for a licensed version. I was used to Bombich's Carbon Copy Cloner on my Mac Mini M1. I need a Windows machine to learn related skills for work, but I didn't know if I could find decent backup software for Windows. I gave your video a like and subscribed to your channel.

[@conradreimer]

Oh MEN !!! I've been struggling for a month after I mirrored my HDD on to SSD. Up until I saw this tutorial, I just couldn't get my SSD working. I saw almost everything about this topic. You are the first person thet talks about the SATA DATA CABLES. I've insteled low speed cable so the computer don't even see the SSD drive. I didn't know there are different kinds of those cables. So, BIG THANKS to YOU for putting me on the right track.

[@Omabatfartsbruh]

i dunno, talking about sata cables is like telling someone how to put on a sock

[@conradreimer]

@@Omabatfartsbruh People that criticize other people are just unhappy about something in their lives and they take the most pathetic measures to make themselves feel better :):):)

[@Omabatfartsbruh]

@@conradreimer quality of life i suppose

[@danielholley8563]

Thanks so much bro I’ve been trying for a month Hope you’re doing great Thanks again

[@SorryIDKLife]

My computer keeps getting stuck on the windows loading screen. At first I wasn't able to load the bios but when it finally did I switch the boot to the ssd and rebooted but its still stuck on the black screen with the loading sign

[@thomasathan6390]

Did you find a solution? i have the same problem

[@SorryIDKLife]

@@thomasathan6390 no I ended up having to take it to techs at my university and they couldn't figure it out either so they just reformatted and gave me a new copy of windows

[@xaingu1]

Same problem too...

[@thomasathan6390]

@@xaingu1 You have to copy the parts of the old driver as it is in the same order, iam talking about the 7:27 minute of this video.

[@gnr2871]

Thank you so much for this. I followed it step by step and it worked perfectly. I didn’t even have to touch the BIOS and my computer booted faster than it ever had before. I did however fall asleep during the copy.

[@lambro3001]

IMPORTANT***If cloning to a BIGGER SSD! Onve you're in Macrium make sure to drag down the (C:) Primary partition LAST. That way you're allowed to allocate all of the available free space to it! The program only allows you to increase the clone size if it's the last partition you dragged down.

[@Teckno77]

Dragged down last, what do you mean please its tick boxes on free Version I'm using version 8 I think. Any help appreciated I dont get why its trimming the new disk or how to stop it doing it cant see any option to prevent it. Cheers

[@andrewborovkov9260]

Thanks, man! I’m so glad I saw your comment so early in the process

[@andrewborovkov9260]

@@Teckno77 on 7:27 he drags down those parts to the new disk starting from left to right. You might gonna have to drag them down in a different order so that your primary space is dragged down the last. Then just click Layout while the primary part is highlighted and you should be able to change how much of the unallocated space your new disk will have

[@BimmertechG01]

Thank you so much. Cloned from a 256gb ssd to a 1tb m.2 NVMe and realized I had 700gb unallocated. Couldn't partition that remaining space without disabling the ability to boot from the NVMe even after cloning. Followed what you said and now im cloning with the remaining space on the primary!

[@s.s_austin]

I appreciate this video so much!!! The cloning took a whopping 16 hours but it worked!!!

[@mk2nathan]

I am looking to upgrade my system to have an ssd but i dont want to spend a lot of money so I will be looking at getting something like a 128 or a 256 gb ssd to have as my boot drive. Is there not a way that i can make my ssd my boot drive without having to clone my hdd as i have like 600 gb worth of files/games saved on it.

[@g3neralcross911]

You can redownload windows on the ssd and then choose that windows as the one you want to run while deleting the older windows

[@mk2nathan]

Gabriel I where is the path for Windows so I can delete of from my hdd?? And I’m guessing I would need to buy a new windows install for my ssd

[@g3neralcross911]

Nathan Manning don’t need to rebuy just have a usb and download windows from their website although you will need to reactivate it. Look up tutorials on how to do this

[@g3neralcross911]

Slayrie no but just make sure that your ssd is the boot drive in bios (best do this is easy ) or completely delete your hard drive.

[@lulunhaokip]

This video may be very useful and helpful to every one who are facing problem like me thanks for uploading

[@GMODISM]

Nice!

[@someonesgoat]

this guide is ridiculously good, thank you. all the right info at the right moments, it's just perfect

[@GMODISM]

Glad it's useful mate!

[@TechFinn12]

Does it remove the watermark to ?

[@milosjevremovic313]

Dude u are the best! I try several programs and tutorial and nothing helped me. U made this video with easy steps and great program ( macrium)and everything works perfect.

[@AceticTWO]

9:42 can I skip that step with switching the cables and stuff? I have no personal data

[@michaelaaron5536]

You should be able to as long as you put your new drive as a higher priority in the boot menu, so that it starts from the new drive instead of the old drive

[@P1CK3PR0]

Thanks!

[@carlodagnolo]

Thanks man! It was a scary venture but this video guided me perfectly. I did end up needing to fix my bad sectors on my HDD (which took about 4 hours) and needed to wait over 7 hours for the clone but it's working great!

[@skrumley]

when you do this is it copying just the windows or everything on that drive cause i only have a 400gb ssd and 1.5tb worth of files on my hdd

[@rickyspanish7642]

Upon attempting to boot on new ssd after doing all of this, I just get bootmgr missing press ctrl alt delete to restart. Any suggestions? I dont have a windows boot disc or anything

[@whydoyouneedmyname6508]

Jusy upgraded from a hdd to a 870 Evo! Thank you so much for the video! Can't believe I have been living without an ssd for this long...

[@GMODISM]

Nice work! I agree, thought it was not necessary until I upgraded as well...

[@KlausiboyZ]

Sooo, following the tutorial I coopied the data from my 200GB SSD to my new 1TB SSD because I was running out of space. But I ended up with the new disc essentially having the same space as my old disc, except it now has a 600GB recovery partition. The old disc also had a recovery partition, but that one was 500MB. Now, I'm assuming this is due to the recovery partition being located "last" on my old disc, and any extra space was just allocated to the last partition on the new disc. Problem is, I'm a total rookie, and I have a hard time finding out how to undo the cloning so I can redo it and make the extra space be allocated to my main storage partition on the drive. (Keep in mind that I am a complete rookie. An hour ago I didn't even know the word "partition")

[@say1l]

have you sorted it out ?

[@KlausiboyZ]

@@say1l I think so, but it's been forever, so I don't remember the process

[@Teckno77]

I'm having this same issue, so annoying. This seems like a good process but it's not working very well for me. I managed to delete the recovery partition using an override command and then reformat the entire ssd so hopefully now it will clone the operation system but still have full storage capacity of the new 1TB ssd.

[@lQuadXl]

Thank you so much, replaced a hard drive so easy! 😁👍

[@GMODISM]

Awesome!

[@Roxa27]

Can I just remove Windows from my old harddrive when finished moving everything?

[@capsikseason]

@Adrian Pena If its a new ssd it's fine it won't break down

[@alexgauvin301]

thank you so much! just was i was looking for subscribed and liked!!!!!

[@GMODISM]

Great to hear!

[@BrainGarage]

Thank you for the awesome video! I had every step down until the extra option for the slider. I'm moving from a 120gb ssd to a 512gb nvme drive and was either losing ~300gb or had to give it a new drive letter🤣. Thanks again!

[@jc_halpin8394]

thanks mate, you made an issue that was giving my headaches an absolute breeze to get done. Highly recommend this to anyone changing an OS from a HDD to a SSD. didn't need to mess around with BIOS at all, launched straight away with no issues.

[@GMODISM]

Awesome!

[@cjherome5678]

Is it possible to not take out the hdd when I successfully cloned the system? And just switch the ssd to boot priority in the bios?

[@g3neralcross911]

yes

[@MRDIPPERS12]

@@g3neralcross911 how

[@LaImirch]

Man thanks so much! Very easy going and understandable for a n00b like me.

[@efsaneoyuncular4646]

are we really supposed to unplug the old hdd before booting from ssd cuz I want to use hdd for storage as well

[@OblivionsEdge]

You don't have to, he did it as a precaution, if you want to wipe the contents of the old drive that used to have windows installed on it, just plug it back in, and right click the drive name, and click format

[@bk5for4]

Actually deserved a sub, thanks a lot man :)

[@ajohn4320]

But personally I prefer AOMEI Partition Assistant, this one always successfully to clone the disk, Macrium Reflect fails from time to time.

[@Xp_Musicc]

Yes and its also easy to use

[@pr1ncess_emily]

thanks for the tip shillbot9000

[@mrlee-oo6zz]

thanks i try macrium and it really fail to boot my new ssd

[@Robonos]

This is a beast of a tutorial, thank you very much, it helped me to move from a HDD to a m.2 SSD

[@GMODISM]

Great to hear!

[@gkp76]

If you keep both drives in the computer, do you need to physically switch them?

[@jaynguyen1494]

did you find out the answer ?

[@eSPy86]

Thanks so much! This helped me move from my SSD to a bigger one.

[@GMODISM]

Great to hear!

[@eduardmarciuc7516]

Once i clone everything onto my ssd is it okay if i delete everything on my hdd?

[@smellfish1430]

If i’m correct, you could, but that doesn’t mean you should.

[@fattymc.fattyface6944]

You could use the HDD as an emergency back up.

[@f150m9]

thank you so much this actually worked i was so surprised because i was not expecting this to be possible

[@kostaskuriakos7417]

When i tried it it got stuck on a loading screen and wont boot

[@whiteshadow1976]

Tackar detta hjälpe enormt. Tack tack!

[@ΣτρατοςΣκλαβουνος-γ4ψ]

With this trick when i move my windows and all my files and everything to the ssd, will i also have the same windows options which i have enabled and unabled to the ssd?

[@GMODISM]

Yes it is an exact copy

[@ΣτρατοςΣκλαβουνος-γ4ψ]

@@GMODISM okay, thanks for your answer

[@club4ghz]

Cloned 500 GB SSD to a 500 GB SSD with this software to have a backup OS. Took 36 minutes. Target disc have 10GB more free space which makes me wonder why as it's exact copy. Thanks.

[@ShiningMixer]

I did everything as the video says and got 0x000000e and missing WINDOWS/system32/winload.exe Any suggestions? Just clear the ssd and try again?

[@zolr3904]

Did you find a solution to this problem? Please share, I'm also encountering it.

[@zolr3904]

OK I found the solution, not sure if you still require it but I'll leave it here: remove all partitions from the current SSD that has all the cloned HDD data (basically like a factory reset) and redo the whole cloning process with Macrium Reflect as stated in this video. For some reason, during my cloning process it created a duplicate copy of the recovery and reserved system which caused them to clash with each other during boot and was what caused the winload.efi error. You can find out how to clear all partitions of a disk on KZbin as well as this guy's channel but a simple search should lead you to it.

[@maxosmundson1043]

Great video, made my cloning project very easy and successful.

[@parker9946]

What if you wanna keep the HDD in the computer still? Just delete the cloned data from the HDD now that it's on the SSD

[@Bestminet]

^

[@ronanhansel]

You just connect the 2nd SATA and powercable.

[@parker9946]

For anyone wondering after everything's cloned just make sure your SSD is the drive being used now over the HDD for your system. If that's all good you can literally just delete everything or go through and pick what you want to keep on the HDD. You can even delete things like Windows off the HDD but you'll probably have to KZbin how to do that as well like I did because it requires you to change certain permissions to do it.

[@collin9673]

Hi great video thanks. I plan on doing this tomorrow. But i wanted to know if i leave my hdd plugged in (for extra storage space) Will the 2 windows conflict with each other? If yes. What should i do? Thank you

[@CornG4397]

Is there a way to just swap windows 10 os as the SSD im using is smaller than the HDD

[@TheHarleyEvans]

if windows 10 is on the SSD you wish to load it from, go into the BIOS and set that SSD as your boot-up disk

[@KeekoTwoK]

2023 still works, the macrium selections he makes are just built in now.

[@Joyce-br4gr]

This tool has an disadvantage, it cannot clone disk with bad sectors, so if you clone disk with bad sector you can use aomei partition assistant, which is better than macrium.

[@whaddyamean99]

I tried to use aomei but it was trying to make me pay 46$ to do it, so I am trying this method

[@Villager_U]

Error 9..... God damnit

[@andreienea3132]

this was so good, i just unpluged the old hdd and it just booted to the new ssd, op gj and thks

[@arianpineda-marzo5973]

It says “not all copied. Insufficient space” though i have large amount of space in my new ssd. Need help pls. Ty

[@MM-lo6vb]

Google up ssd unallocated fix that was my issue

[@matteo8313]

Allocate it all or clear it in CMD

[@FreedomForAll2013]

No... just no! If anyone else has this problem then here is the actual solution... Go ahead and begin as usual, you'll get the error saying " not all partitions copied, insufficient space" etc, at which point an option becomes highlighted that says "cloned partition properties". Click on the main partition (the one that will become C drive on your SSD and has left over space) and click cloned partition properties. Shrink the new main or 2nd partition to create free space, the same size of the 3rd partition that wont copy (you can test by trying to copy partitions individually but it should be the 3rd one). Now drag the 3rd partition into the new empty space and drop it. Bang! You are now ready to clone all 3 partitions! Also you DO NOT need to shrink the volume and leave unallocated space as this program does that automatically as you can see under advanced settings.

[@FreedomForAll2013]

Quick summary: -click 2nd partition -Click cloned partition properties -Shrink volume to fit 3rd partion in new space -drag and drop 3rd partition into new space -click next

[@robc2609]

I got to 7:25 and the ssd i have just installed has a 16 MB box and it wont let me drag down all the files. The hard drive im transferring from is a 2TB hard drive and my new ssd is only 1TB but there are only 600 TB worth of files on my computer so i'm not sure why it wont let me. Please help

[@DictatorDonny]

i did it and when i turned it on my ssd drive wasn’t there and it said that it was removed