How to Clone Your Drive For Free - Dont lose your data in Windows 10 or 11

[@ThisBytesForYou]

✅ *WATCH NEXT* : How to Clone a Drive the Quick and Easy Way: kzbin.info/www/bejne/anPXlYCZptyUfMk In How to Clone Your Drive For Free - Don't lose your data in 2022, I show you how to clone an M.2 SSD Drive to an SSD, I show you how to clone an SSD to an M.2 SSD all for free in Windows 10 and 11. Don't use with Bitlocker & Disk Encryption technology like Bitlocker.

[@generalawareness101]

Reflect free is a dead product now.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

You are incorrect my friend

[@generalawareness101]

@@ThisBytesForYou Then it is well hidden as the easy there it is way when I tried to download it was gone. No matter, I found something else far better, and was really free.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

@@generalawareness101 then you didn't check the link in the description. January 1at, they stopped making it free for ever, it's now a 30 day trial, but it still works like I show you, only for 30 days. You didn't look hard enough.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

What did you find that was free and better, so I can help others.

[@lspec1455]

i watched so many videos trying to figure out how to clone my hard drive into my new SSD for free, but all of them lead nowhere until i discovered your channel!! you're a blessing ❤thank you very much! and keep up the great work you're awesome!

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@dragonknight1599]

This video was a huge help. I just recently got an SSD internal drive and getting everything cloned, set to boot, and clearing out the old drive was a breeze thanks to you.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@NoTheRobot]

As of November 16, 2022, this is still working flawlessly. Thank you for the in-depth tutorial!

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. Actually just used this 3 weeks ago, so I can confirm with you hahah ;) Thanks bud

[@julianzacconievas]

Mate, thank you a lot for this. I had no idea that software existed and it's been very handy. Just a few things to add to the video for newer folk: - If you bought a brand new drive to replace your old one, you will need to initialise it BEFORE you use it for cloning. Otherwise your BIOS will fail to recognise it as a bootable drive even if it can read it perfectly while you are booting from another drive. This video shows you how to easily initialise your brand new drive in the "Initialising a drive" section in the second half of the video. It's a common mistake to forget this, so before you mess with your RAID/Legacy/UEFI BIOS config, make sure your drive is adequately initialised. Initialising your drive basically creates a tiny piece of information your BIOS needs in order to know that the drive can be used for booting. - The software owners have removed the free licence and now offer a free 30 day trial of their software. Likely to be enough for most people just trying to upgrade or replace a drive who are watching this.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Yeah, January 1st they changed it, but the 30 day trial does everything I show in this video, and all that happens, is that you can't clone it again, not a biggy and always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@Ruperticus]

Thanks man, I just tried this twice and could not figure out why the new disk would not boot. I dont know why I forgot to initialize, but on the other hand it was maybe 10-12 years ago since I cloned a disk :) cheers!

[@baecobbb]

THANK YOU SOO SO MUCH

[@TomoyoTatar]

Thank you.

[@ianrussell7065]

@@ThisBytesForYou I'm sorry, but it does not. I have just downloaded the 30 day free trail - there is no option to extend the partition

[@johnquinones9296]

This guy should be at 1M already

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Thank you so much my friend, I really do appreciate your kind words and support, sadly its going ever so slow, please do feel free to spread and share this link, it would help tons, thank you.

[@whiskey5963]

The best tutorial out there if you don’t have an external drive lying around to install your OS to your new M.2 SSD. This worked like a charm for me all throughout! Thank you so much

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@bv7713]

Man, I rarely comment. Seeing your subscribers count got me tears for what you have offered. You deserve millions.. It will happen soon. Keep doing such value contents that are "really useful" to people. Comments show here that you have touched thousands of hearts 😊

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. Yeah, the subs gets me upset as well, but I can't control it, so I can only be upset for a sec, I am pushing hard but it seems like it is taking for ever, would help tons if you could share videos you find useful where you see people have questions that they fit, it would help tons, thanks my friend, and thank you, I really do try to help more than anything, to give people the confidence to do these things on their own, to save money but even more to feel good about themselves, that they were able to overcome the scary part and work through it, thats an awesome feeling and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@johng4357]

Hey Iggy, i followed this guide to upgrade from my 256 pcie3 m.2 boot drive to a 1tb pcie4. I had to remove my other m.2 storage to do the swap and was a bit worried it might mess up with the drive letters but it all went flawless. In particular, that tip about getting the software to expand the new partition is what made the difference, thank you. No-one else covers that step and then you have to rely on seperate hardware as you can't just expand that partition in disk manager. I used WD770 black, seems like a really good storage. Doubled my speed from the old integral M2! Also can confirm that in Jan-23 the Macrium free software still works. Just sent another subscriber your way for your pc build videos 👍

[@ThisBytesForYou]

good stuff my friend, thanks so much for your kind words and support, and odd about Macrium, did you just go to the site I mention in the video or did you use the description I typed up? I ask because they announced January 1st that they would stop offering it for free, so just making sure, regardless, it is an awesome piece of software, so If not free, its cheap enough to buy, and worth. The partition, I thought very important to mention, so very happy you enjoyed that as well. Thanks again bud and congrats on that speed bump ;)

[@Birdie_1991]

Sifted through so many videos for the past year and this is the only vid that simplified it, spoke clearly, and didn't make the program sound sketchy.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. I really do appreciate your kind words my friend.

[@Darkblazer14]

Prior to finding your video I had been struggling for over an hour trying "free" apps that when you were about to start the cloning they directed you to their Sales page, I was about to pay just to be done and then found you, clear instructions, clear process, you cover every possible option, I'm so thankful for your help!

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Thank you so much for your kind words and support my friend, it means the world to me and I am so very happy I could help you. I need to make a 2024 edition of this.

[@christopheror9833]

Amazing video, covered all the possible cases and straight to the point, it was hilarious to see the mic behind you, Cheers!

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. Haha and yeah, I wish there was something to remind me of that hahah, cheers my friend.

[@Iistener]

Appreciate the very specific procedures and chapters in the description! It made looking for the information I was looking for very easy.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@masonintrater]

As of December 8 2022 this works fantastic, follow step by step and nothing will go wrong. I never comment on videos but you deserve all the praise for saving me a headache of losing any data. And setting up new boot drive with ease! Can’t thank you enough man

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. I use this every few weeks for builds I am doing, so that I can reimage over and over, it is amazing and saves so much time. So very happy I could help you.

[@andrewkinzie9564]

December 15th 2022. It works!!! Man! I read all the comments and they all were super positive. I must have watched this video 5 times to be sure I do everything step by step. You are most helpful. I appreciate you for helping to upgrade my 512gb laptop to 2tb. Definitely subbed. Thx

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Thank you so much for your kind words and support my friend, it means the world to me and I am so very happy I could help you. I will be making a follow up to this one, with a few extra things I missed and adds ons to this, all still free too but I am thrilled that I could help you and you enjoyed it. As for positive, I really do try to be,... but you know how the internet can beat you down, sometimes it takes a toll on you but this comment changes so many things. Thanks again bud.

[@prasanna.saikia]

Watched too many Videos and this one is the best out there. Special thanks for the Disk cleaning part with proper guidance and demonstrations which was extremely helpful. Thank You ☺️

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@prasanna.saikia]

@@ThisBytesForYou Grateful that you still take time to reply, that shows the level of commitment and the efforts that you put in making your contents. I was struggling from the last two days and finally your video helped me. Grateful for the help, kindly accept my Gratitude. Subscribed and looking forward for more such valuable learnings 🙏

[@ThisBytesForYou]

ahhh that's awesome my friend, thanks so much for your kind words and support, it means the world to me. So very happy I could help you, and yeah, it is a little cumbersome at first, but once you do it once or twice, its makes more sense. I release videos every week to help you in all things PC related, I hope to catch you in some more videos, again, thank you so much.

[@iandawkins2182]

Brilliant tutorial, I have seen lots of Macrium tutorials and you are the first to explain it clearly and the bonus is the easy way you wipe the old drive of partitions Windows will not delete. Thanks 👍👍

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@SteelKnowledge]

Thanks for this video! Just installed a NVMe M.2 2TB into my machine and had to clone from the 500GB SATA and you made it VERY easy to follow. The download for Macrium is now slightly different as they are doing a 30day trial period and then asking for purchase but it still worked identically to your video. Thanks for being so concise, not skipping any small steps, and making it easy for all to understand.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. And while I hate to burst my own bubble haha, I did learn some things from others feedback, and because of that I made a follow up video, hopefully you did not overwrite your older drive and have 2 drives, but the new one might be good, check out this video, I go over somethings in the BIOS and the OS that I missed in this video, having to do with UEFI vs Legacy and MBR vs GPT, it can be the difference between your OS working and just bluescreening soon, it has happened to many, I hope it helps: kzbin.info/www/bejne/anPXlYCZptyUfMk

[@SteelKnowledge]

@@ThisBytesForYou Thanks for the reply. I did already wipe the old drive so hopefully I'm all good and dont run into any blue screening issues but I'll watch the video and see what I can learn. Luckily this is a newer computer to me and only really gaming at this time so if I had to wipe it and start over I could do so without much of an issue.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Good stuff bud, let me know how it goes for you.

[@dzcasanova8840]

​@@SteelKnowledgeis it still free ?

[@ThisBytesForYou]

@dzcasanova8840 yup, just for 30 days instead of forever

[@joelwall1131]

Such a good breakdown. Thanks for making it seem like there was always a way to fix it so not to stress about it. Sorted my PC right out and I'm a complete novice.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@X05Radar]

Excellent as always 👍👍

[@ThisBytesForYou]

​Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy I could help you. If you haven't already, please consider subscribing, I come out with videos just like this every week and with almost 400 videos, I am sure I have something else you might need. If not, let me know, if it makes sense, I might make a video out of it. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to help you out. I know we have spoken before, but I only asked because I am nosey and didn't see ThisBytesForYou on your channels list, so I thought to ask ;) Thanks again buddy.

[@j.m.salazar9964]

tHaNks for mentioning that partitioning the unallocated space to the C drive is crucial while initially cloning the hard drive. It saved me from having to figure that out myself

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@MrDarkmuffin13]

I was looking at so many tutorials and this was the best one .you explained it start to finish answered any questions great quality thank you

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@MrDarkmuffin13]

I had an error at 97 % error 8 gonna try a new port hopefully it works

[@ThisBytesForYou]

@@MrDarkmuffin13 well, it can happen. I highly recommend when you get it work, disconnect the older drive and just keep it for a week or 2 and keep using your machine as regular, just in case.

[@edo3388]

Another great video. Taught me how to clone to an SSD on a HD only system and then use the new SSD as the boot drive and clean off the old HD as a data drive. Only thing I did beyond what is taught here is to move the Windows Libraries (like Pictures, Documents) from the Boot Drive to the new-old Data Drive.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

good stuff my friend, so happy I could help. I am working on one very similar but for laptops, very very similar actually, along with a bunch of other videos behind it of course. i was supposed to have one launch today but so many things happened I could not release it

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Yes I see you are, this clones, makes an exact copy of the source

[@HalfBaked]

Really helpful guide to understanding the cloning process. This is going in my pc rebuild playlist!

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. So very happy you found it useful enough to add as well ;)

[@THORDOX]

Extremely helpful, just switched from a mechanical HD to an SSD and it is night and day the speed difference on my old computer

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. I will hopefully make a video on that soon, stay tuned my friend, I have a lot on my plate.

[@goodmorningandwelcome3906]

Cheers dude, tried other tutorials but yours was the only one that worked. Thanks!

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Cheers my friend and always a pleasure, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@andresrobles5396]

This was a great video! You gave a lot of information and watching you do it step by step was really helpful!

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@llewinidas]

Hey man thank you for this. Very clear and easy to follow instructions!

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@lawrenceplaysph6966]

this is actually legitimately free unlike other videos that needs pro version thank you sir✊

[@ThisBytesForYou]

always a pleasure my friend, so very happy I could help you, this video will also help you, just in case: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2nSnnVqpat_oqM and if you like the video and you want more PC information, please make sure to subscribe, I come out with videos every week to help you on all sorts of PC related this.

[@spartanking1405]

U is a legend bro, just upgraded from 256 gb ssd to to a m.2, while preserving windows 10, etc. I am in your debt 🙏

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@brianmcaulay3358]

thank you so much for your video. after spending a few hours on other videos and getting nowhere I was able to follow yours and get everything I needed to do.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@busteractual1133]

100% helpful step-by-step video. Was looking for alt to AOMEI since they removed the cloning functionality in the free version and found Macrium thanks to you!

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. Yeah AOMEI screwed me over after I made the video, making me look like an idiot, because it was free, after I made the video, they started charging for it, so I reached out to Macrium and wanted to make something better, so happy you enjoyed it.

[@meme5887]

Ikr. Isn't that the point of a trial? to make sure it works??

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Typically yes, but that's not the way it works with them, you can't clone until youve paid, so there is no trial

[@Red_PlaysYT]

Easy to follow and entertaining! Thank you for this! :D

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@oleandreasen7844]

Thanks a million. I was about to install Windows again on my New SSD , and reinstall every program, but your video saved me All that hassle. So easy and worked perfectly. Great and informative video.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@EnigamiNetshinobi]

Super thorough with the process. My m.2 is coming this weekend and will use this to guide me through.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

That bud but I highly suggest to watch the video I just posted, I go into more detail I did not in this video.

[@yajkotak]

Really helpful video, thank you ❤️

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Thank you so much for your kind words and support my friend, it means the world to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@ericneiman9887]

Hands down you make what I consider daunting really easy to understand. Thank you. Completely off topic: any advice on an anti virus?

[@ThisBytesForYou]

so very happy you enjoyed it my friend and it was able to help you. Anti-Virus... well, I really only use Windows Defender, the built in Anti-Virus and Malwarebytes, the free version and the biggest thing is common sense. Don't click on odd links, hover your mouse over them and it will tell you on the bottom left hand corner where it takes you without clicking on it, and other sites, try not to visit.

[@Alirezarz62]

Don't install any antivirus the windows defender is the safest and best option

[@lanceromance1022]

Can I ask you a question why did it split my new drive into a system reserved i have one TB drive 65 mb and 930gb

[@ThisBytesForYou]

That is how windows creates partitions automatically, your original drive had it and your new drive has it's it's a clone.

[@lanceromance1022]

@@ThisBytesForYou can i change the drive letter for reserve from f to d and old drive to E

[@ThisBytesForYou]

@@lanceromance1022 guess you didn't watch the video?

[@lanceromance1022]

@@ThisBytesForYou yes I did I figured it out I have 2 dvd drive d,e system reserved is f old drive is G

[@FredHolmeswriter]

Another excellent video. Clear, concise, and entertaining as well as informative. Well done!

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Thank you so much for your kind words and support my friend, it means the world to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@keithnoneya]

UPDATE: The New Macrium Reflect 8 Home version 8.0.7175. [UEFI] "MAY" require you to check or cycle an option "BOX" on the bottom right of the drive you wish to clone called "Copy selected partitions when I click 'Next'" in order for the "Copy Partitions" tab to be selectable. If you cycle that box the option to "Shrink or extend to fill the target disk" should become available in the "Copy Partitions" tab. If "Copy Partitions" option doesn't become selectable you'll still be able to make a clone, but only of the EXACT hard drive with the EXACT partition sizes. However on a positive note, the unused part of the new drive you can still use "Disk Manager" to letter the unused partition for that part of the drive and use it as a separate drive. Kinda like you used to have to do with large drives using FAT 32. Thanks for the video Bytes. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Go figure, a shame about Macrium, the software was so great and free for so long, but I guess people took advantage of it too much but you are good my friend, you can use AOMEI's free Partition Assistant Standard www.diskpart.com/free-partition-manager.html best wishes and blessing to you as well my friend, thank you.

[@keithnoneya]

@@ThisBytesForYou OK Good news! When I restarted my laptop a few times "&" started the Clone this drive, then clicked on the option "Copy selected partitions when I click 'Next'" on the bottom right of the drive to clone too, the "Copy Partitions" option became highlighted and worked great for me after that. Don't know if it updated or what. So I'm going to amend and update my initial comment to reflect that you may have to cycle that box to get that option to work. Thanks for the reply and if you remake the video or amend your description "SHOW MORE" tab you might mention that. Thanks for the great video, "Thumbs Up"! Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you and thanks for the update.@@keithnoneya

[@Gk22632]

If anyone watching this has problems with the end, and it’s saying “unable to dismount volume” restarting my computer seemed to fix it

[@ThisBytesForYou]

thanks bud,. I go over this with a few people in the comments, and because of everything I have learned, I made the follow up video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/anPXlYCZptyUfMk

[@sucmadic6426]

can someone help? if i clone ssd to ssd with macrium reflect it progresses only 1% per 2 hours can anyone tell me why? old ssd= Kingston 447 GB New ssd= 1TB and i used other clone programes like AOMEI Backupper and the first clone it showed me the blue screen with recovery and the second time it just was stuck at 50% for 4 hours and i cancled it.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Try running in elevated mode on the older, original drive in a command prompt sfc /scannow, it might take a while but after you have fixed those issues try again

[@sucmadic6426]

@@ThisBytesForYou ty gonna try it

[@sucmadic6426]

@@ThisBytesForYou can u tell me how i can check on witch drive im currently booting?

[@ThisBytesForYou]

@@sucmadic6426 disconnect a drive

[@sucmadic6426]

@@ThisBytesForYou Windows Resource Protection found corrupted files, some of which could not be repaired. For online repairs, see the CBS log file for details windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. Example C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For offline repairs See the log file specified by the /OFFLOGFILE flag for details.

[@Dariel81]

Great video, but no longer valid as software is not free anymore, just 30 day trial, nothing is free forever it seems

[@ThisBytesForYou]

yeah they changed it to 30 day trial but it still works like it does in this video, just for 30 days, but your clone will still work perfectly after that so it is still free, since you don't have to pay for those 30 days and thanks so much for your kind words.

[@reefhound9902]

@@ThisBytesForYou For now. Given that they phased out Free, how long before they remove Clone Disk from the Trial like most of the other majors (Acronis, Easeus, Aomei, etc.) have done.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

@@reefhound9902 well, take advantage of it while you can, because who knows what tomorrow brings right... this truly confuses me, like why would you bother to think that, we can't control it, just use it while you can.

[@reefhound9902]

@@ThisBytesForYou The average user will need to do this once every few years. They aren't going to keep daily tabs on what the software manufacturer is doing. They are going to learn it, rely on it, find themselves in need 2 years from now, and discover it doesn't work at the moment they most need it to work.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

@@reefhound9902 if they like it, they can buy it, companies gotta stay afloat, that's probably why they did this.

[@JuanSeven17]

Thank you so much for this tutorial. As of Dec 21, 2022, still working flawlessly. It takes only 15 minutes for me and it copied all of my files same as my old ssd. Thanks again.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@Faith.in.His.Grace.]

Well I followed your instructions and I successfully cloned my OS to another drive and it worked perfectly, I'm actually using the cloned drive now and it copied everything to an exact T, even my browsers history. Thank you for this great information it worked flawlessly!

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. I highly recommend, before you wipe the other drive, disconnect it and keep it for a bit, just to make sure your clone is perfect. After a week or 2 after using your PC with the clone, if all is good, then wipe the older drive.

[@bishopofbackup]

Nicely done, Iggy! Great job!

[@ThisBytesForYou]

thanks so much your highness ;) , so very good to see you on here. I really do like the software and it was much easier than I thought it would be. I am so very happy you enjoyed the video.

[@theninjatyler]

Excellent Video! Was searching around for a while but this is the best tutorial by far.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@Ristogod]

Thanks for giving me the info in a manner that is direct and useful. Much appreciated.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@ImAltair1]

This video has been a huge help! I appreciate your content, keep up the good work

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@aaronnonaka]

Thank you for this terrific, easy to follow along and understand tutorial.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. I really do try hard to keep it simple to understand, the way I want to watch a video too.

[@richardslepcik2620]

Very detailed explanation, my clone to larger ssd just running. Well done and thank you for huge help!

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@Typhh]

I don't normally comment on youtube but you saved me a world of pain with my dying m.2. ty for such a clean video :)

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@zambha5446]

you have done it again my man! Great stuff and very helpful

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Thank you so much for your kind words and support my friend, it means the world to me and I am so very happy you enjoyed it

[@melee5568]

I think one clone to the new Drive is enough as long as it's the new drive and new boot options with it.. My Hard drive from my HDD in my laptop just began to show S.M.A.R.T bad status and blue screen critical service errors every now and then. I'm glad there's a step by step video like this. You earned my subscription

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Thank you so much for your kind words and support my friend, it means the world to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@stickyRice9]

Some good quality videos on this channel thank you so much!!!

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@juliospicb]

Excellent video, explained step by step! Thanks

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@lordcover3550]

Finally a video that actually got the job done! Thank you!

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@skankrim5398]

followed all the steps worked brilliant cheers

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. Cheers my friend.

[@thewillsfamilyaccount6486]

Nicely done!! 😊

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@David-Cope]

Sorted... Just stripped laptop down and swapped the drive. Works perfect and boots up in about 30 seconds now. Well pleased. Thank you loads. x x x. lol

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Ahh good stuff my friend I am so very happy I could help you and so very happy you got that working.

[@Lawgamer411]

Awesome guide! Worked perfectly.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@donbinkins4922]

thank you very much, easy to follow for a first timer opening a computer up.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Oh wow, Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@bigbooduh]

this application is the BEST, cant thank you enough this video should be rated # 1 on youtube

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@AceLooneyLoz]

Brilliant video, superbly made, fantastic narration :)

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. Fantastic narration, I have never gotten that before, haha, thank you so much my friend, I truly appreciate it.

[@AceLooneyLoz]

Such a perfect video and veryyy helpful !! :) Thankyou and bravo my friend !

[@ThisBytesForYou]

@@AceLooneyLoz I really am honored my friend, a great way to make my day a lot bright, i truly appreciate it and i am so very happy I could help you.

[@TheJaygonzone]

This video is clear and simple. Helped me migrate my OS to my new NVME ssd. Thank you!

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. And thank you so much for your kind words.

[@TheJaygonzone]

@@ThisBytesForYou Subbed.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

thank you so much for your support my friend, it means a ton to me. Actually, I will be working on a few more like this that may help but I have almost 400 videos on here already on just about everything PC related, so I am sure I have more that can help and I come out with videos every week. Stay tuned my friend and welcome to the family.

[@OMGRC]

Thank you! This saved me from reinstalling windows 11👊

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@houstonastrorider713]

great stuff, well made and clear and simple...

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@lukej2290]

This video was a great help, no messing around and to the point 👌 did my clone in minutes.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@lukej2290]

@@ThisBytesForYou subbed to your page 👍

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Thank you so much for your kind words and support my friend, it means the world to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@ENTZY.]

7:54 I've run into an issue, both my drives show up, my hdd with a windows symbol and my ssd without. When I select change drive letter and paths I cant assign a new letter

[@ThisBytesForYou]

have you tried restarting your computer?

[@ENTZY.]

@@ThisBytesForYou do I want to set my ssd 1st as hard drive or uefi? Or both?

[@ThisBytesForYou]

@@ENTZY. UEFI

[@ENTZY.]

@@ThisBytesForYou this fixed it all up (I hope) my ssd is now my c drive and system disk. Thank you so much for your help and quick responses. You are awesome

[@ThisBytesForYou]

@@ENTZY. Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@dynamics9000]

Awesome video, I enjoyed watching. subbed and liked !,,

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Thank you so much for your kind words and support my friend, it means the world to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@AlexRochaIAm]

This the best video on this process. Thank you!

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@HR-wd6cw]

Cloning your system drive on a semi-regular basis (say twice or four times a year) is a good practice to get in. I do mine about once every 4-6 months (I just re-image the drive and once the new image/clone is verified, I delete the old system images). It's good in case your SSD or HDD fails and you need to restore your PC. Personally, I would also clone your original OS install that came with your computer BEFORE you start using it, that way you have a clean fresh install too to go back to. (I never trusted the recovery programs that come with most computers, as I've had some that simply didn't work; although the Lenovo Recovery system has worked well for me on multiple systems so it's one of the few that I do feel work but I would still clone the original drive and OS installations just to be safe and to have an additional copy of a working OS that I could just clone back should I have an issue at some point.) If you do have to re-install Windows, keep in mind that as long as Windows 10 or 11 was activated on your computer, you don't need a product key and you don't need to buy another copy of Windows. Just install, and connect to the web to re-activate. Places like BestBuy will try to tell you you need to buy another copy of Windows, which could cost $100-$300 and is unnecessary.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

if you buy a prebuilt machine, like Dell, HP, Gateway, etc, systems sold at BestBuy, they have OEM SLP Activation 3.0 built into the BIOS, that is why you can install and not need a key. As for cloning what was on the drive, thats horrible since they have so much bloat ware, I always recommend if you buy a retail machine, wipe the drive, install windows, drivers and the software you use, then clone if you like.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

if it's a home built PC, you will need a new license if you don't have the key as we dont have SLP Activation on our BIOS'

[@ITSMe-om4gp]

thank you so much, my windows wouldnt work because of a driver update, I wanted to use aomei but found ou tcloning was paid, I actually managed to clone it to a different drive and pick the files I wanted, Best of luck on your youtube journey.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

ummm, cool, thanks

[@Mr79801]

Hi sir. I am writing this comment to say thank you for your video. I was able to clone my 2013 HDD windows 8.1 to a Samsung 870 evo SSD using this software within 3 hours. Now my 9 years old laptop runs superrrr fast now. The software works really well👍 and thank God nothing funny happened in the middle. Once again thank you sir for making this video. You are my life savior. You just gained a subscriber 😃👍

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Thank you so much for your kind words and support my friend, it means the world to me and I am so very happy I could help you. I will be doing a video on a laptop soon too ;)

[@Mr79801]

Keep up the good work sir! 👍 this world needs more people like you😂🤣

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Thank you so much my friend for making my day, it means the world to me and the world needs much more like you as well, we all need to be kinder to each other :D

[@sebastiangonzalez6142]

Thanks for this video! Been trying to do this for a while!

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. Remember to test the clone for a while, before you delete the original, and test it with the original disconnected to make sure, you can't be too careful ;)

[@galos1070]

Thanks, I'm happy that you made this. I was lost now I've found the solution of my SSD problem :)

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@Simon_Hawkshaw]

Great info and easy to follow instructions. Many thanks for this concise and helpful tutorial.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@Drlgguru]

Brilliant vid clearly explained all the way thanks.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@djlodestoneswe6719]

It was easy to follow the instructions and very good pedagogy to understand how the program works. Thanks :)

[@ThisBytesForYou]

thanks again my friend.

[@rouszdel]

Thank you so much! So easy and fast, totally a life saver!

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@WiseBacterium]

Great Guide, cloned my drive no problem!

[@ThisBytesForYou]

awesome my friend, so happy I could help you, I HIGHLY recommend, you watch this video as well, at least until the 6:35 mark. there are things I didn't know when I originally made this video, that I add into the new video, things in the BIOS and for the OS, if you don't do them, you run the risk of your clone not working later, here is the video, I hope it helps you as well: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3m5dKChoptqp5o

[@stoi5946]

My friend thank you so much for this video. Super easy step-by-step, solved my problem in a blink! Thank you!

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@jon8255]

Thank you. Used this twice. Very much appreciated!

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. Let me ask you, as of January 1st it became paid, you can't get it free anymore, how did you get it, I just found out an hour ago, I am making another video like this but I would love to know how you got it.

[@jon8255]

@@ThisBytesForYou I downloaded the software in December and had no issues.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

@@jon8255 ahhh ok nice, yeah they start charging for it January 1st, but I found a way around, not sure how much longer it will work. I am trying to find a different solution, lets see what happens. Thanks again bud.

[@carlitoventura80]

Thank you for the tutorial, very informative, love the style of your video.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. Thanks so much for starting my day off right ;) and I am so happy I could start yours right too :D

[@columbiancoke]

Thanks for the tutorial! I plan on upgrading my laptop SSD soon and I was looking up a bunch of tutorials and many people in their comments said that it didn't work or they lost their data. But this tutorial luckily isn't like the others but also straightforward. Thanks!

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. But actually, this one is specifically for laptops and will show you something in the BIOS and Windows that you should check and or change, that this video did not show, i will make one specifically for desktops soon, but I hope this helps more: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3m5dKChoptqp5o

[@paulwright6121]

Thanks for this video. I'd tried acronis, easus etc. and they all failed. This worked a treat, no problems whatsoever. Thanks again!

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@johnr1222]

Wow, thanks for making this, that was the best and most helpful review I found.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@awesomedistortion395]

Thanks for the nice clear guid

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@masmik70]

Your video helped me immensely! thank you!

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@TechVet]

Nice, I didn't realize you could resize the C drive size output. That's good to know, thanks!

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. Straight from Windows you can do it, but its a pain in the butt, these apps make it much easier.

[@jonb3902]

Outstanding, well done video!

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@jonb3902]

@@ThisBytesForYou I subscribed. Good content is hard to come by and even though I'm not big into PC mods and and such I still had a need to seek this out. Learning more is never a bad thing. I dove into flight simulation and eventually my SSD is going to run out of space.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

thank you so much my friend for the support and your kind words, it means the world to me. Yeah, flight sims can eat at your drive so for sure I can see how this would help and I am so very happy I could help you. I will be following this video up soon, more for laptops though, just need to record it, its on my bench though ;)

[@rickyneff2041]

Thank you very much! Followed your steps and didn't have any issues.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@edison3571]

Thank you for showing me how to clean the disk in cmd. I Ran across this partitioning problem in the past and am so happy I have a simple way to fix it.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@jayflow23]

Works great 👍🏽 thank you for the help

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@wadidiplay]

If I want just the drive C to be cloned, should I uncheck all other remaining drives? I think I saw in your video that all drives left checked

[@ThisBytesForYou]

those are not drives, those are partitions, if thats what I understand you mean, can you give me a time stamp in the so I can verify?

[@wadidiplay]

@@ThisBytesForYou Ah yes you're right, partition. I kept my OS on a separate drive, I no longer use partion. This is the the video I need, I just finished the video, thanks a ton, it helps a lot.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@chieftain9]

After downloading 3 other “free” cloning tool softwares only to find the download is free but use of said tool is not, I stumbled on this video which in fact works as described. As of Dec 2022, this tutorial still holds true to a free-use software.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

[@DallyT95]

Thankyou for this video! Made my life so much easier. Bought a new bigger m2 because I thought I had a spare second slot and didn't. Was going to just give up and return it but this helped me power through and get it set up.

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Thank you so much my friend, I really do appreciate your kind words and support, sadly its going ever so slow, please do feel free to spread and share this link, it would help tons, thank you.

[@brianmcaulay3358]

Thanks

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Wow, thank you so much my friend, I truly appreciate the donation, it means a ton to me. All of it goes right back into the channel to keep it growing and your support is truly amazing. Thank you again.

[@BrianLuenser]

I sure do thank you friend! Worked GREAT!

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Awesome bud, so happy I could help you, though I am confused, what do you mean "I sure do"?

[@crooksnkings]

Absolute legend... my pc is running smother than ever before!

[@ThisBytesForYou]

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. So did you go from an HDD to an SSD?

[@crooksnkings]

@@ThisBytesForYou yea I went from a hard drive to an ssd. Only problem is that when I went to reboot after, I believe, following the steps to a T, I unfortunately got a blue screen saying that I lack a required device/component. Now it's stuck in a reboot cycle. Please help 🙏 😢

[@ThisBytesForYou]

wow, that's weird, but I have had a few people with the same issue, not sure why though. Does it give you a number or anything like 0x0300x3rt (not a real error code, but an example)

[@crooksnkings]

@@ThisBytesForYou yes 0xc000000e

[@ThisBytesForYou]

OK, I would write it out for you, but it might be best to follow this guide: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/error-code-0xc000000e-in-windows-10/c8f62dc9-07e9-49b3-87bf-18d065db2e1b To create the windows 10 boot media: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWiYanxteaeLmpo To create the Windows 11 boot media: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l6rTaYehqKqnpbs Let me know if this helps.