Easy FREE Disk Clone Cloning & Drive Migration With Disk Genius Free Macrium Reflect Alternative

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

Genius! After spending HOURS of time watching MANY confusing videos, I was finally able to clone my SSD to a new NVME M.2 in minutes! Thank you very much! My C:\ drive was 98% full and I was running out of time!

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it helped! and thank you so much for the donation, very much appreciated

[@TheLouisianaHobbyGuy]

@@mikesunboxing *Well deserved!* _Enjoining the channel... Cheers!_

[@mikesunboxing]

Thanks appreciate that

[@provaogiocaregiochi8245]

same i have 99% full

[@lenny108]

The problem seems that the free versions of cloning software are cloning your hard drive but it is not actually booting.

[@ignatz962]

Thanks for posting this. After cloning with two other programs...free and paid...I still couldn't get my laptop to boot. Then I found this video last night and tried this and within an hour or so, I'm up and running. Thanks again.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad I could help

[@chiawildy563]

Too much thrash floating on KZbin. PS: Thanks Mike for making this available.

[@ContactFault]

just did this using this app and its worked absolutely perfectly. Thank you for making such an easy to follow video. Moved Windows from a very old intel 60GB SSD to a samsung Evo 970 2TB

[@raunaq002]

Yes, I did this just now and it worked like a breeze. Very easy.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it helped!

[@iocyber]

Did you just delete everything on old drive after?

[@ContactFault]

@@iocyber nah I stuck it in a drawer and forgot about it just incase the new drive failed I would have an easy backup of my OS

[@iocyber]

@@ContactFault didn't work for me OS is still on old drive and I can't boot from new one

[@giomartinez5484]

This is the only tutorial on KZbin that actually works. I don’t really comment but this deserves a like, comment, and subscription great work!

[@mikesunboxing]

thank you very much

[@mickyp03]

After struggling with some other free software, I came across this video. Simple and easy to follow and I successfully cloned my HDD to my NVMe! Thanks so much!

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it helped!

[@muskerp]

Thanks Mike, really easy to follow and just the right level of detail given the amount of options that the tool gives. Its a shame that the companies that make these keep dropping the clone option from the free option but I cant blame them, I cant remember ever upgrading to a paid version except maybe 15 years ago on a data recovery product. My own clone on an old PC took about 4 hours as I was copying about 500gb sata ssd to 2tb sata ssd via USB using the hot option.

[@mikesunboxing]

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[@Darren66860]

Thanks for this video Mike. I've wasted a lot of time recently trying free versions of software only to find that the clone feature has been disabled. So this program will help, might download it before they change it. Keep up the good work 👍

[@mikesunboxing]

Thanks 🙏

[@Patrick-vt79w2]

Thanks, Mike, this is the most clear and concise video I’ve watched. No confusing computer jargon used; or trying to follow a flip-flopping mouse pointer. A very simple ‘how to ‘ with bright clear video images. You’ve restored my confidence to clone my ageing HDD to SSD. (P.S. I've just clicked the start button and one hour remaining. ) Thank you, much appreciated. 👍

[@mikesunboxing]

Awesome, thank you!

[@runescape2random]

Macrium gave me errors! This video saved my life. My new m.2 boots windows perfectly since following ur videos

[@davearnold731]

Thanks Mike this really saved me. You made it so easy. AND finding free software that is "really" free is amazing. Great video, great job.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it helped!

[@_prodsam]

The best tutorial i've seen on internet. Thanks, keep the good work man.

[@mikesunboxing]

Wow, thanks!

[@RLeeWII]

Thanks! This video was exactly what I needed. Working on upgrade for my Surface Pro 7+

[@mikesunboxing]

Thank you so much, that is very kind of you

[@shrimp.e36]

Thanks Mike! I was able to migrate from a SanDisk SSD to a Crucial P3 Plus NVMe. This video is very helpful with a very detailed explanation. Great job!

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it helped!

[@Hjaldrgegnirr]

Great video, thanks for the info! Took about 4 hours to transfer 1.2 TB off my HDD to the new SSD, a lot quicker than I honestly anticipated.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it helped! i did another disk clone yesterday NVME to USB NVME and it was about 5 minutes and when the drive was swapped it booted first time

[@rickh8380]

Great how-to. I forgot that I downloaded this and installed it awhile back. Thanks for sharing Mike and Lady Kath. Take care everyone. Cheers

[@mikesunboxing]

cheers Rick

[@MichaelFrimlPhotography]

The key to practical nice videos is You explain it like you would teach people who have never done it or have zero pc knowledge. With your videos anyone can do it. You never forget to mention all the little things around the main topic. Thank you Michael

[@mikesunboxing]

So nice of you

[@noelwalker8798]

I don't often subscribe to youtube channels but you deserve it for this simple to follow tutorial. After wasting my time with an old copy of another programme I went hunting on the web and your video came up. So simple to use and free to boot. It's definitely a piece of software that I would consider buying if I wanted any of the additional features. Thanks.

[@mikesunboxing]

thanks i appreciate that, and yes it is a great bit of software, and best of all its free

[@andrewb9790]

Thanks for this! My neighbour has asked me to look at his 12 yr old machine and I'll be using this to migrate a knackered HDD to a SSD to prolong its life!

[@mikesunboxing]

hope it helps you in the process

[@LA3198]

Thank you so much Mike for this tutorial. I just completed upgrading my laptop from a 500 Gb SSD to a 2 Tb SSD. I followed you video and the process worked like a charm. I bought a USB enclosure for the 2 TB drive and plugged in into the USB C port on my laptop. Once the clone was completed, I turned off the power and opened my laptop and swapped out the 500 Gb drive for the 2 Tb drive. I powered up the computer and nothing changed except I now have 1 1/2 Tb more space on the hard drive. I watched several tutorials on cloning a hard drive, but yours was the most straight forward and easy to understand. Keep up the good work.

[@mikesunboxing]

thank you, that is great to hear that you found the video easy to digest and follow. Thanks for the kind words

[@sethpeters1]

Excellent video!

[@mikesunboxing]

@@sethpeters1 Thanks for your kind words 🙂

[@gerrygallant9155]

Hi... I wanna do the same with my new 2tb nvme.... Did u resize or did u use all of the drive like he did and still had loads of storage... Sorry hope that makes sense lol

[@sethpeters1]

@@gerrygallant9155 I used the whole drive and just cloned it to maximize my machine

[@GuilhermeLeite-pw8cp]

This is the best tutorial on the internet period! You saved me an entire day of stress thank you!

[@mikesunboxing]

haha glad to help my friend

[@yourpcmd]

Just so you know, if you have Macrium v7.3 free edition, it still works. Just disable auto-update. Although, you can still update it to version 8 before disabling updates.

[@Wythaneye]

If you had the foresight to export the bootable ISO image, Macrium 7 free still works just fine (Feb 2024).

[@uglybob7505]

Great video ! Id noticed that Macrium had done the update to put their services behind a paywall so Ive been looking for an alternative. Not heard of DiskGenius before so I'll be getting that bad boy installed. Thanks Lady Kath and Furry Face Mike !

[@mikesunboxing]

lol thanks bob! used this a few times now, and seems to do everything macrium was known for, and no need for registration

[@BKDREAM09]

that was awesome, my new SSD drive is suppose to arrive tmrw and I've been looking for a easy/reliable cloning software -- thanks again for posting I will definately watch again lol

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad I could help

[@patricklebel1141]

I gave it a try and it worked well. I had to clone the drive I had in the small itx I had near the tv because I put uograded it. Good find!

[@mikesunboxing]

yeah this will be the new macrium for a while

[@MrTwister70]

Thank you so much for this video! Needed to clone my OS drive to a larger size one. Saw a bunch of videos where a lot of people had issues after attempting. Watched your video and decided to bite the bullet and give it a go. Everything worked out great! Stumbled a bit in getting the drive set in my BIOS, but other than that small hiccup everything is operating. Thanks again! 👍

[@dsmasynergy]

Disk Genius worked perfectly. 1 tb ssd to 1 tb m.2 nvme (in an external USB 3.1 enclosure). 800 gigs took 30 mins. Did the hot method, surprised it worked as this is usually a problem when cloning.

[@mikesunboxing]

Good to hear

[@darylhaines7397]

I came across Disk genius recently when researching an M.2 migration from 500GB to a gen 4 1TB. I have been using Macrium for some time to do backups but as support is ending soon I was looking for an alternative. Being retired I needed a cheap option 😂. I can't believe how quickly DG did the clone and changed the boot sequence. WIN 11 and several games and all my programs done in under 10 minutes. Highly recommended. Thanks for the video it's covered some of the options I haven't explored yet.

[@mikesunboxing]

thanks for the comment, have a great day

[@vkotzath]

It was about time to find a free program that offers system migration without compromises. Thanks a lot!

[@ltcameron1]

Fantastic video. I was terrified to use this program because of the warning- you allyed my fears and i went for it. All succesfully copied. Thanks so much. Great instruction. No BS either. My 225 SSD C Drive had less than 20MB on it and I cloned it to a 1 TB SSD. All good now. thanks again. have subscribed and will come again. Great channel. expert advice.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it helped! thanks for the kind words, appreciate it

[@rachagainstthemachine.]

Thankyou so much. Just transfered my c: to a slightly bigger 256gb m.2 (was 128gb ssd) and all went well. Thanks for being so clear and concise in your video 😊

[@mikesunboxing]

thanks for the kind words, and glad the video and software were helpful

[@Senrab46]

What a great piece of software! Having recently manually moved all my games from 2x drives onto new 2Tb m.2 and then swapped drive letters around so steam / epic etc werent aware of any changes then this software would made it so much quicker and easier to achieve. Thanks for sharing Mike & Kath, have a great weekend 🐈👍

[@mikesunboxing]

data swapping and cloning is a laborious chore it hate it, this makes it easy, i like easy

[@Chris_P_Bacon]

This is the best guide! Worked perfectly for switching a Laptop HDD for a SSD.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it helped!

[@sai_tastic6550]

Mike, you're a Saint man. I always search for something I need and you're always the hero.

[@mikesunboxing]

haha thanks appreciate that

[@bigtom1948]

Disk Genius Free works very well and has a ton of partition tools built in. Now that Macrium and MiniTool no longer support free transfers (cloning) it's a great program to have. PLUS it will transfer to a smaller drive as long as there is enough space on the target drive to accept the transfer. No more equal or larger drive size required message blocking the transfer, even the Aomei Partition Assistant I bought would do that. So Disk Genius Free will be my GoTo for cloning and monthly Incremental System Backups, cause it's easy to do. Thanks for the very informative video.

[@mikesunboxing]

great piece of software

[@dugannash9109]

As far as I can tell, you can still use macrium to clone, and they offer a 30 day free trial. I haven't tried using it yet so I'm not sure if they make you input a credit card or something.

[@mikesunboxing]

@@dugannash9109interesting

[@eduardomaravilla436]

I Want to say thanks Mike. this honestly saved me when I was stuck installing a brand-new SSD in place of my old SSD. I followed the instructions and cloned my old SSD onto already installed HDD and from there onto the new SSD as my pc only had room for one NVME M2 slot. no joke I was stressing out trying to fix it on my own with other guides till I tried this.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it helped

[@a.j.haverkamp4023]

I use the older free Macrium Reflect rescue USB thumb drive to create images from all my machines as a backup. That drive still supports a lot of hardware, including my new Lenovo Ideapad Slim 14” laptop.

[@mikesunboxing]

such a shame they stopped the free version

[@rickh8380]

Update Mike... I used this software to go from a 250GB nvme boot drive to a 1TB boot drive. Worked perfectly. 👍 Thanks for walking me through this. Take care guys. Cheers

[@mikesunboxing]

Great to hear! i really like the software, does the job and free, sounds like a deal to me, as long as they aren't data scraping

[@rickh8380]

@@mikesunboxing You Mike...that's seems to be the norm these days. Cheers

[@GhostRider247]

been looking for a replacment to Macrium Mike it was brilliant !!! thanks for this !!!

[@mikesunboxing]

Happy to help!

[@GhostRider247]

@@mikesunboxing took me a little while to figure how to do a full backup Mike , but got there in the end with the built in help 👌👌👌 Cheers Mike ....Shaun.

[@mikesunboxing]

@@GhostRider247 Glad it helped you 🙂

[@toddwmac]

Thanks man....took me a while to find a channel I trusted, and I found you. In appreciation.

[@mikesunboxing]

I appreciate that!

[@kevvyg04]

Mike - many thanks mate, this program was the only one that worked and my laptop booted up instantly !! Brilliant 🤩

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it helped

[@jspau]

Followed this procedure - worked perfectly the very first time. Thank you!

[@mikesunboxing]

Great to hear!

[@Snowwie88]

Nice, I like the 'clean' video, no annoying background music, clear voice, and a program that does this for FREE. Thanks 🙂

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Onyxapplez]

appreciate the tutorial, so glad I've found this channel!

[@mikesunboxing]

thanks for the kind comment

[@mattdrummond9087]

Thank you for this information... I used it and it worked like a charm....thanks again from across the pond.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it helped

[@LordChoco6]

Thank yo so much for your tutorial!! I did as instructed and everything worked great, now I have a better and perfect functioning SSD with all my previous windows programs and set ups. Awesome, five stars.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it helped! thanks for commenting

[@hulk2891]

Hi mate thanks for the info and advice , just about to do my change over to a bigger m.2 and i think i will resize my partition .All the best till next time

[@mikesunboxing]

No problem 👍

[@valuefficient1441]

Only Video to work. Exact copy of everything was there. Windows, office, Games, Desktop wallpaper. Thanks in tons sir for the genuine tutorial. Liked & Subbed. It took me 21 minutes for 500 GB cloning. 👌

[@mikesunboxing]

i'm glad it helped you

[@justmyself1000]

Thank You! Finally a free program that says what it does....and doesn't try and charge you under false pretense! Thank You for the help. Wish I could give you 100 likes!

[@mikesunboxing]

thanks for watching

[@TheGreatMelinko]

Thank you so much for your help! Your the first one I found after looking for ever that works and didn't have to pay for

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad I could help!

[@JTECH7766]

A like from me because it worked flawlessly and was exactly what I was looking for so thank you. I’ll need to watch more of your content for the sub as I don’t know you yet! 😉

[@mikesunboxing]

thanks and welcome to the channel

[@cpt.stroke]

you’ve helped me in the past before with ram i knew your video would be the right choice🙏

[@mikesunboxing]

thank you, so kind of you to say. Hope to be able to help you out again sometime

[@JamesSmith-sw3nk]

Cloning drives is why I use Samsung drives with their 1 click cloning software. Unfortunately, they are on a higher end for cost. This looks like great alternative for a cheaper drive. Good video.

[@TheRobJarvis]

for real? I just bout a samsung 500 gig evo ssd, it comes with free cloning software? that would be excellent! It arrives in the mail monday it says.

[@johnhealy2001]

Good video great job easy to follow and did the trick asap now if i hit a brick wall just load the other copy great stuff saves a lot of time thanks

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad to help

[@hectorpulido9858]

Following your steps right at this moment Mike. Hoping for the best. Will keep you updated.

[@hectorpulido9858]

Completed the process and went smoothly! Thank you so much for making this video.

[@mikesunboxing]

Best of luck!

[@manoloeusebio592]

I am upgrading from a 1Tb to a 2Tb Nvme, does Disk Genius automatically adjust the OS partition to use all available space of the 2Tb or should I manually adjust it? Thanks in advance. Love your videos by the way. Keep it up.

[@doron986]

Nice and easy to undestand even its not my language. Bravo 🎹 thank you

[@mikesunboxing]

Thank you too!

[@weegaz22]

Thanks mike, like you i started noticing the options for free drive ghosting have become more and more limited everytime i do a drive swap, this will be handy.

[@mikesunboxing]

No problem 👍

[@velboc1]

Very clear straight to the point tutorial . Thanks !

[@misinkamisinka]

All works :) thank you very much .

[@mikesunboxing]

You're welcome!

[@alanhellewell7457]

Thanks Mike ,downloaded and cloned my samsung ssd to a nvme kingston and it worked perfect .

[@mikesunboxing]

glad it helped. have a great weekend

[@the7observer]

thanks for the tip having a basic feature locked behind a paywall is a pain for someone who will just use the software once but can be a way for the developer to attract attention of pottential paying users

[@samirjones474]

thank you, after watching a lot of useless videos on yt finally i found a useful one

[@mikesunboxing]

Thanks for the kind words

[@facelessvaper]

Hasleo has a PE partition option for a recovery boot menu, tad annoying having a boot menu every boot however there is a BCDedit work around EDIT(1) there is a checkbox work around in Advanced System settings also I was too lazy to look 😫. EDIT(2) hasleo does clone & backup too tbf I have never used it to recover but cloning works

[@WritewheelUK]

Thanks for the video. I've used Macrium free once a year for a few years. I'd rather do a clean install of Windows than pay £50 pa. I had a look around, and saw this video. I installed it this morning, and have cloned my boot drive this afternoon. Easy, not very quick, but free. The UI is about as simple as can be. Thanks for the heads up.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it helped

[@davidzucek3131]

Ty, the software did everything perfectly!

[@aaz099az]

thankyou it works spot on my comp started up straight away

[@mikesunboxing]

glad to hear it

[@mickywoods]

I did install this last week - nice tool to have - thanks for the video - I'm sure I will refer back to it at sometime.

[@mikesunboxing]

sad that macrium is not free anymore, but this seems to be a viable alternative

[@freespeechadvocate7492]

Ive been looking for something like this to migrate my Gen 3.0 NVME to a new Gen 4.0. Thanks for this.

[@mikesunboxing]

if you use it let us know how you get on

[@BunchofBrambles]

absolutely best video out there for transitioning you SSD to new drive.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad you think so!

[@Jonnie_Rich]

was so easy thank you for the great tips!

[@mikesunboxing]

You're so welcome!

[@Tony-xn7sd]

I use that Mini tool partition/shadowmaker software, it's really good bit of kit, always does a good job of backing up, cloning etc :)

[@mikesunboxing]

Thanks for the tip!

[@muskerp]

I think that minitool has dropped the clone from the free version

[@AviationWP]

Tip for other Americans: Set speed to .75 -- Easy to understand :)

[@mikesunboxing]

haha thanks for the tip

[@ozmozis6073]

Very well evaluated with notable caveats. Appreciate your work. 👍

[@mikesunboxing]

Many thanks!

[@volgamoskvicova3905]

FANTASTIC, SIMPLE and IT FINALLY WORKS

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it helped

[@currysoslutavuk]

Thank you so much, i did step by step with your video. It worked like magic. In the process of codying hdd i got error about the disk bunch of time but it worked regardless

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it helped

[@matthewday7565]

Looks like I'll be using this now, as I failed to catch a giveaway of one of the others this time... Free version still on and still covers what's needed

[@mikesunboxing]

i quite like it and it seems to be less of a resource hog than Macrium was

[@antonyhermens9985]

Very glad that you review this Disk Genius Free - Always bought Samsung drives (with Samsung software limited to target Samsung drives) - - - Great Review Mike thanks

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it was helpful!

[@gregorydayton5428]

Mike Thank You. I just get new M.2's and your video will be very helpful.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it was helpful!

[@davidosborn1769]

Thank you for a trouble free system migration tutorial. It was nice and easy to follow.

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it was helpful!

[@journeywithbodor]

Thanks❤ I clone my hard disk to NVME m.2 SSD by using this Software and all steps on this video. It’s very effective tool. Thanks again ❤❤

[@mikesunboxing]

Glad it helped

[@alex.quintero]

thanks a lot men, i look for hours difference softwares and and just this one works perfectly, FREE and very fast.

[@mikesunboxing]

You're welcome!

[@doesntmatter3068]

Nice!! I just purchased a new laptop, be here this week. It has Win 11, I dont like 11 and all the bloatware. Going to clone my Win10 (desktop) then install in new laptop. This software should work great for this job!

[@mikesunboxing]

Good luck!

[@bradley_itz_not_me1889]

Free and easy to use software, super helpful, thanks Mike

[@mikesunboxing]

You're welcome!

[@joshd108]

quick tip, if your old mobo doesn't have an m.2 slot, you may have an extra pcie slot available and can get an m.2 adapter for it. Even the 4x slot is capable of 3000/mbs. much faster than sata!

[@jaspalsinghsabbajassi]

Thank you so much, as easy as copying and pasting it to some other sd card. Thank you so much. It works !

[@mikesunboxing]

You're welcome!

[@WingsofJoseUp]

Hello Sir, I am from Tamil Nadu, India. Really very very helpful this video. Thank you very much Sir.

[@mikesunboxing]

You are most welcome

[@pauljacobus1066]

Can you clarify the difference between "System Migration" and "Clone Drive" in this software? If you (or I) use the Clone Disc option, won't the newly cloned drive be bootable?

[@mikesunboxing]

system migration is the primary partitions and c: drive. cloning is a direct one for one copy of the source drive

[@bobwhitfield9491]

worked like a charm my friend. thanks

[@mikesunboxing]

You're welcome!

[@lexpee]

i use for years Samsung Data Migration. Free to use software that only work with Samsung SSD. I have 3 Samsung M.2 SSD'S and this software works perfect. It creates a snapshot "clone" of the current situation. 2 time's i needed the clone for repair. I make a clone every week, sometimes an extra clone in high-risk situations.

[@mikesunboxing]

always a good idea to make a backup

[@dalethomasdewitt]

The new paradigm is clone to better drives on schedules from more finite failure estimates. A victory in consumer computing.

[@okbrown]

I really miss Terabyte Unlimited, as it was easy to use "for me" but this seems like a really good alternative. Thanks. P.S. Would have liked to seen a restore demo using Win PE. Depending on the age and skill level of your viewers this might throw them.

[@freechain]

worked like a charm, with no BS. I didn't have the same fancy pants drives he does in the video, so it took a good half hour to clone 256gb, but who's complaining when I didn't cost a penny. Sweet thank you. Shouldn't this function just be part of windows?

[@mikesunboxing]

lol I think Microsoft have enough anti trust issues as it is without including a disk cloning system

[@arniep740]

Thank you for this video. My question is...After using this procedure to clone my SSD, does all of the software that was installed on the source SSD remain functional on the target SSD? Or, does the software need to be reinstalled? Thank you!

[@mikesunboxing]

it will produce an exact copy of the drive without moving or deleting so when finished you have two identical drives both working as they did before you started

[@dahock]

Saved me so much effort. Thanks bro

[@mikesunboxing]

glad it helped

[@This_is_sonik]

awesome stuff worked great! super simple. thanks M

[@mikesunboxing]

glad it helped

[@PaulBakewell]

Great video thanks Mike

[@mikesunboxing]

You bet

[@stephenfoxall2207]

Nice find Mike... worked really well, even resetting the boot drive automatically. Pleased to find this now that MiniTool and EaseUS charge (more than the cost of a 1TB drive) for the cloning function.

[@mikesunboxing]

thanks, and glad you found it useful, i use this pretty much all the time now

[@FrankWoodPhotography]

Great video. Nice West Country accent ;-)

[@mikesunboxing]

Thanks! 😃Bristol all the way

[@joseherrera1947]

How do I make it bootable after full disk clone? I wanted to keep OE recovery partition from old disk.

[@mikesunboxing]

it should just copy the whole disk and any other partitions. otherwise choose the clone option rather than migrate

[@peterschmidt9942]

Cheers - I haven't heard of this one before. The big disadvantage most of these type of programs have is it will copy over the windows partition (great for backup only) and make it bootable, but forgets about (or won't allow) the other system recovery partitions to be copied as well. This seems to copy everything over. I'm keen to give it a try as I have a few PCs I'll be upgrading soon.

[@mikesunboxing]

hope you enjoy using it, i really enjoy the simplicity