Much obliged 🎩 to all my viewers. Like. Share. Subscribe. Enjoy. Support links ☕ BuyMeACoffee: buymeacoff.ee/accessrandom 🐦 Twitter: twitter.com/accessrand0m 🔵 Subscribe: th-cam.com/users/accessrandom -- ► If you have only two partitions and are getting an error during the repair step, here is a solution, thanks to fullylaced23: It’s worth noting that for some reason my drive only had two partitions it as opposed to the general 5-6. Furthermore when running the last step to repair the boot I got a “partition sector error” causing me to be unable to boot with either no OS being shown or a corrupted boot. I was able to fix this by setting the partitions to active in the drive which I only thought to do because of the error and this ended up fixing my problem. However I don’t know why this occurred or why the error happens in the repair step. Any way you can shine a light on this or make a pinned comment about this issue because there is a lot of forum posts but not actual solutions. As a matter of fact this might be the first time I’ve solved my own problem. After further review it seems that people with only two partitions on their windows drive have trouble with Macrium and their Windows Boot Manager becomes disabled since it is on the partition that Macrium disables when doing the last step even though it is not the boot partition. It would explain why activating the partition fixed the problem since this partition must be set to active in order to load the boot files for people with two partition drives. ► Going above and beyond the procedure from Macrium (as seen in the description), here is a solution about Bitlocker from Al B: BEWARE of Bitlocker Encryption. I followed all steps which worked perfectly except for ‘Fix Boot Problems’ in Macrium Rescue. This process did not work leaving me in a bind with no BCD (Boot Configuration Data File) so my laptop would not boot from the SSD nor the HDD which had been cleaned. Apparently when I booted from the new cloned SSD, data was encrypted by Bitlocker. Luckily, When I booted from the Macrium rescue media, I was able to go into CMD mode (bottom left corner of window) and manually decrypt my new C: drive using the ‘manage-bed’ command. You will need the Bitlocker password for the C: drive when using the manage-bed command. I keep mine in my MS account. It is much easier to do this via control panel after rebooting from the newly cloned drive, but BEFORE the one time reboot into Macrium recovery. ► A protip from Conquesticle: An easier way to access BIOS from the desktop is by pressing shift and clicking restart simultaneously. Then troubleshoot > advanced options > uefi firmware settings.
Heyy I'm actually facing a wierd issue with my laptop, an Asus x505za purchased only recently. Can you please tell me how I may contact you, Instagram or something such would do I guess
Hey, I followed your steps but I cloned from a ssd to a hard drive, it brings me to that blue screen page, but when I click continue it restarts the computer and brings me back to the screen!
Everyone. DO NOT SKIP THE LAST STEP. Just saved hours of time for me. I had skipped it and after a few days my pc stopped booting correctly. I proceeded to pull this video back up on my phone, and follow the final instructions with the rescue disk since I still had made it during the video, and bam, problem solved. THANK YOU access random! One of the best tutorials I’ve ever seen.
Thank you for the feedback on your experience with the rescue disk. 🙏 I made sure the video included it as part of the procedure in cases like this (though I'm not sure why it stopped booting correctly after three days - usually, it will work well until the boot partition on the HDD is wiped).
@@accessrandom yeah I followed every other step in your tutorial, woke up to my PC being off completely. Turned it on and had a blue screen, then remembered your video. My pc had updated while I slept and just couldn’t boot back up for some reason. The old drive is still connected and in the same slot but it’s wiped, and didn’t even show up as an option to boot to.
CjThrasher can you explain this a little more. I had the same issue but forgetting I had my back up boot I tried a million things then just decided to try a fresh install but my drive can’t do it no matter what I try. Also doesn’t help that that drive is now 9 hours away that I’m back at school 🥴
@@WHITEPERSUAS1ON you might be able to fix it if you’re able to make a new usb boot disk I’m not sure since it’s been awhile since I did this but like he said in the video it fixes some issues like my pc was still latching onto the cleaned drive and trying to boot from it even though my boot order was correct so it wouldn’t find an operating system at all.
CjThrasher yeah, that’s been my issue. I even downloaded Linux Mint which I could boot to from a USB and all my files were there on my SSD but I couldn’t access “WINDOWS” file. Weird thing. It’s nice to know I’m not the only one who has had this problem. It’s had me going insane the last 3 days 😂
This is hands down the best video for a daunting task such as migrating data like this. This walked me through the whole process for the first time and everything went smoother than I expected. Although I would recommend access random to either take down the older video, or really, really point out you need the recovery disk. I almost didn't make the recovery disk cause on the other video it doesn't seem to be as important and things seem to work out until you see this one.
Yes it can all get confusing and you really don't want to format or erase the wrong drive by mistake. Although one time I had a drive with errors, and formatted it, but did not use it, so the 'bytes' of old data were still there. I used software to recover the data, and my goodness, it recovered in a rather jumbled way - EVERYTHING! I had so many like 200 byte files, I knew they were nothing, but I was able to get my main data back off of the drive. Something got jumbled and the drive was unreadable, I forget what, but a format and recovery straightened it all out.
"Leftover CDs from the 90s" - I've watched this video at least three times while setting up my SSD and that line cracks me up every time. Ain't it the truth?! Also have a ton of the slim jewel cases left over.
Just switched from a 120gb ssd to a 480gb nvme, thank you, you're a life saver ! (I must say there is a few things that changed in the meantime, for example you don't have to mess up with partitions size, they added a button "clone partition" for that. You just select the option to shrink/expand automatically the partitions and it's done)
Fantastic tutorial, I installed and configured an SSD without fear and without problems. An important tip: many notebooks come without a CD drive, they need a new usb flash drive for the "rescue disk", and the usb flash stick needs to be cleaned and configured using the CMD prompt before use (diskpart, select disk, select disk n, clean , convert mbr). Thanks and congrats!
Why they no longer include disc readers is beyond me. Like my sister asked me 'do they even make pcs any more with dvd/cd players?'. Apparently not. My new to me, used laptop doesn't have one. But you can buy cd/dvd/blu ray players for not too much money and cable them up and use them on your laptop to play music or watch movies or make music cds for yourself, friends and family.
I bought a new SSD and failed many times last night doing this on my own, watched a couple videos that weren't detailed enough for my 12 iq brain, tyvm for this it was so detailed and easy to follow and I am forever thankful.
Also we all forget that sometimes it is so hard to do something, but if you step back, stop and wait a day, on day 2 it all makes sense and is so easy, while the day before you were pulling out your hair. I think our brains need to decompress, especially when doing something that we are sort of familiar with but don't do that often.
I am writting this comment because i wanna thank you from all my heart for this tutorials. I had an Acer Aspire f5-771g and i ordered a new M.2 nvME card. My expectations were pretty low, since updating hardware is not my best task. I followed exactly your steps and here I am booting in less than 10 secs compared to the 1 min with the HDD drive. Thank you.
To be honest, I don't even know why I just watched this video, because it's something I do fairly regularly for family and friends, often using Macrium. However, that being said, this is hands down one of the best walk-throughs I've ever watched. Very concise and well produced.
This is how all tutorials should be, very concise and detailed at the same time, and also a nice pace. Now, in my case for some reason I couldn't do the procedure within Windows, it always gave me an error message, but then I remember that Rescue Disc you asked us to create, I boot from it and did all the steps and it went OK, so for those who have the same problem as I had, you can use the rescue disc and hopefully it'll all be fine.
Thank you Sir, an absolute must for this process, you saved me hours of rummaging through useless web pages and videos. Restored a couple of older laptops to useful machines I can donate to students in need. Without a doubt the best guide out there.
Great tutorial. I have done it a few times in the past but the tutorial helps to make sure I do it correctly. I would rather recommend that you first complete the clone and be sure you are able to boot from the newly cloned disk before formatting the old disk. It really gives you peace of mind knowing that you can always revert to your old disk if you mess things up.
its really good as it will change disk signatures to prevent disk signature collision which means you can leave both disks connected after connecting and boot fro either one..
This was my first time ever installing an M.2 into an existing system and you made it so simple and easy to follow. No problems on my end at all and I got it done within a few hours due to how large my files were. Thank you so much!
this is an absolute god of a tutorial, i ve been surfing the internet for many years, yet, this remains the absolute best in tutorials, (skips incomprehensive stuff, but addreses the most confusing things in a very comprehensible way) 10/10
I just spent three hours (due to my slow computer's HDD which I'm replacing using the steps laid out in this video) upgrading my HDD to SSD. These steps, explanations, context, and graphics/video are arguably amongst the most helpful I've come across. THANK YOU for this video. The upgrade seems to hold. I am hoping this lasts (and yes I made and have my Macrium recovery disk files on USB).
Fantastic! Best Macrium tutorial I've found, to put a smaller ssd into a laptop. This video made it easy, every step is perfectly described. Don't hesitate, this video makes it easy. Highly recommended!
Extremely helpful view. This taught me how to clear my drives too through the command prompt, which I wasn't expecting. Your pacing is phenomenal and you're very detailed. I've been binging SSD cloning videos and this is a 10/10 that helped me last night. Other videos were 7/10 at best. Nice editing, King.
I don't know if you are a teacher outside your TH-cam channel but you are terrific at explaining the process and the concepts clearly and concisely. Thank you for this video, truly helped me. The only thing that was a very slight hiccup was the rebooting process. I know you explained at the start that this was for a specific brand of PC but you might want to reiterate that when rebooting to use the recovery disk that the screen and process might look very different when finding and selecting the recovery device. But again, such an awesome video and you rock!
After cloning my drive, I changed the boot order to make my NVME SSD first. It was still booting to the HDD. I unplugged the SATA Hard drive and rebooted and it went into a recovery screen. It was missing a file. I booted into the Macrium USB and did the fix boot issues. That fixed it for me! Just wanted to say this in case any one else comes across a similar issue. Thanks for the help!
This is a brilliant video - so clear and detailed for every step. The amazing thing is that in reality the software worked exactly as shown. I had spent several days and at least 30 attempts to clone my hard drive to a smaller SSD using two different software packages and each attempt had failed miserably. I had begun to think that my usb 2 connection to the new SSD was not fast enough. Then everything worked with Macrium 7 Free - exactly as shown in the video. Thanks very very much.
This video saved me after 2 sleepless nights. I have Acronis True Image licence, but it was failing without giving any information on why it is failing. Tried multiple things but only Macrium Reflect worked fine and special thanks to you for explaining everything in detail. You got a subscriber. For those who are searching on how to delete protected partition, this should help: diskpart list disk //Note down disk number select disk N list part //note down partition num select part M delete part override
You're welcome, and thank you for the tips on deleting partitions 🙏. Very happy to have you here. For a video guide, I have a video that might help also: th-cam.com/video/sfS143DikPE/w-d-xo.html
Best presentation ever on migrating OS to SSD! Appreciate all the animations & highlights to make the points immediately obvious - thanks also for all the small details to make the installation perfect (like exact resizing and ordering of the partitions)
Thanks for the tutorial. It was excellent. I installed a new 512 SSD and additional RAM in my Inspirion 5580. I had approached DELL and got a ridiculous quote from them. I had a slight problem because DELL shipped my device without an adapter screw to secure the SSD to the device. This has been reported by other Inspiron 5580 users in the DELL community forum. DELL claimed since the device was not purchased with an SSD, I should purchase a new part even though the device is under warranty. I have fixed the SSD with paper tape since DELL dosen't have the adapter. I had a slight glitch with Bitlocker encryption, but this was easily resolved with the Microsoft key for Bitlocker. Other than that the process you explained worked perfectly.
Thank you for the detailed information and the success story 👍 For a part that they could probably source for less than a cent, Dell should really include the screw on all models.
You can buy quite cheaply 'pc repair kits' that include screws, screw drivers, forceps, bits, just about everything you need when working on your laptop or desktop. Most of them are very reasonably priced. You can also but m.2 nvme screws, say 5 or 10 or 25, that's how they are usually sold in small bags.
To anyone who didn't want to wipe the HDD and wanted to delete the windows files manually to save other files, don't do the last step until you make sure you don't have 2 installations of windows! I did it the wrong way and even in the f2 menu would say my SSD was the first boot but it would start the old HDD, and it would always show a blue screen "choose your windows installation" when starting my laptop. To fix this I started my SSD windows installation from this blue screen menu and saved the files I wanted from my HDD to SSD and then wiped the HDD, make sure you have your recovery usb/cd! Before wiping it! after this I did the last step (fix boot windows problems in macrium) and with only 1 windows installed it worked fine! My laptop now starts in 10 seconds , thanks for the tutorial!! 🤗
You can skip the bios thing, just go straight and wipe the old disk and when you do the "fix boot problems" thing on macrium it will automatically assign the new drive as default boot drive because the old one has nothing in it.
Hi, I have Dell Latitude 6410, and when I go into Boot Sequence -> UEFI, nothing shows up. There is no Secure Boot options in BIOS either. Is it OK to skip the BIOS thing in my case, and just go ahead and wipe the old disk?
With Macrium reflect free I cloned a 2 TB Samsung 879 QVO from a 7 yr old 250 GB Samsung. Clear Disk Info said it has less than 35% of life left so I didn't want to take a chance. I followed your instructions and it worked like a champ.
Thank you so much ! I was literally struggling to understand why going to a larger SSD it would just separate another it into another partition instead of making it one, this helped a ton !
@@accessrandom ya im having trouble finding a free program that will migrate/clonehe the os for free the website has change, which one do you think i should download. I don't think they support the home version anymore.
Just want to say that this tutorial is still relevant in 2022. I managed to clone the HDD of a new laptop to a new SSD even before going through the Windows Setup. I created the WinPE bootable image using another PC and did the cloning process in the PE environment itself. Thanks a lot 👍👍
@@ByngerX May I ask how many partitions you had on your original disk and how many you cloned? Also - when you ran the clean command, are you sure you had selected the original hard disk and not the SSD?
Finally fix it. I had my bios set to Legacy+UEFI, I switched it to just UEFI and it works now. I dont know what that means but im glad it works now! Still a great video thank you
This is one of the best videos that talks about the entire process involved in cloning an OS. I followed all the steps and was able to successfully migrate my os from hdd to ssd. Although, out of my ignorance I made a mistake by skipping the step to create the macrium recovery disk. Due to this after wiping clean the hdd post completion of migration my system wouldn’t boot up. So I request everyone to follow all the steps properly and never skip any 😅. Thanks to lot to this channel for making such wonderful videos. keep making such useful videos.
thank you so much for explaining everything in an easy to understand way. did this to my own pc after upgrading from a 7 year old HDD (i know, its speeds were not great haha) to an SSD. im usually very nervous when doing something like this but i went in and had absolutely no nerves at all thanks to how excellent this tutorial is! many thanks!
You are a serious life saver! Apart from some annoying bitlocker stuff, all I did was follow your video and everything worked perfectly! Thank you so much!!
@@ryanmartin8966 great question! I had to go to my Microsoft account and dig through all of the bitlocker keys online tied to it. Unfortunately, this did not work out for me in the long run. A day or two after my comment here, I decided to wipe the old nvme and switch slots. That's of course when I got errors telling me I didn't have a valid OS and that something was corrupted. It was an ASUS laptop, so it did not play nice with the new NVME hardware. I had to completely wipe the corrupted OS and ran into the whole new headache in the world of custom proprietary OS disk images hiding unreleased drivers not available anywhere after a vanilla windows 10 install. Ugh. Long story short, I was able to return the laptop and swore off ASUS. I would suggest this process for desktop, but not laptops (unless you're replacing a secondary drive or the OS is mostly vanilla out of the box). And sorry for the rant 😅
I used this tutorial fora Dell Inspiron 5570, and aside from having to do a 3 hour disk repair (which the program told me how to fix) it worked flawlessly
Like others have said, this is the best tutorial I have ever seen. You give very concise and complete instructions and explanations for everything you do, speak very clearly, and even go the extra mile in the end to show what users will probably want to do. I bought you a coffee and have never done that for a creator before.
Thanks for the tutorial, I totally missed the "Clone this Disk" option. Also the tip about repairing the Windows boot is great. Macrium Reflect made resizing for cloning to a larger partition better since this video. There's a button to "float right" any partitions at the end of the drive that should not be resized, to make room for the middle partition that will grow.
Hey man, I'd like to thank you for this tutorial! The cloning process took 4 hours to complete though, but it was worth it! My slow laptop has been turned into a fast one thanks to you!
@@noisnecsa995 Since Macrium Reflect uses VSS (Volume Shadow Copy) technology, theoretically, you should be able to use your computer while cloning. However, I would leave it alone just in case...
I can't say thanks enough!!! Video is clear and to the point, migration finished so fast I almost missed it. This is by far one of the best and easiest migration videos to follow. Much appreciated!!!
Even with windows 11 this worked beautifully, I was having lots of issues with my hard drive and decided to switch to an SSD and this video literally saved my laptop from being destroyed
Hey iam using minitool for migration I have some questions. 1st - in my laptop my ssd is from sata and my ssd is from nvme m.2 will there will be any issue from migratiing os to nvme from sata 2nd - i want to migrate only system (w11 os) only in my ssd because in my hdd there is data of around 600gb and my ssd is around only 250 gb. Can I do it only copying system related file's?
Absolute hero, been putting off switching to an SSD for years due to being scared of messing it up, easily one of the best instructional videos I’ve watched 👍
@@accessrandom Your video inspired me to order a SSD and replace my boot drive. I followed your example and it went as smooth as silk. Gotta love the amazingly fast bootup. Thanks again.
Yas, very helpful. On my desktop I just bunged SSD in, cloned it, changed cables around and booted from it and it worked fine. *It is a lot different for a laptop...* That rescue media was very good idea.
This is by far one of the best OS/system management tutorials I have seen. Incredibly precise...and therefore *indispensable* for transferring boot drives. Kudos!
So your tutorial was most applicable to me. Few things differed. I used version 8 of the software and I had to create recovery media on a usb drive. I then was forced to boot to that usb drive to create my backup. Afterwards everything was the same. Thanks again.
I used this way back when and it worked great. Time to use it again to do the same thing - swapping from HDD to larger M.2. Not only is your voice steady, reassuring and even calming the instructions are fantastic. Thanks a million for this content!
I am using Samsung Data Migration. That works perfectly and is free, It works only with Samsung SSDs. I have 2 Samsung M.2 SSDs. I make weekly an system clone from the C: partition. It takes 13 minutes.
This is by far the best tutorial for drive cloning. Informative and easily digestible. If anyone is striving to make great tutorials start taking notes!
I cloned my OS drive to a larger SSD, exactly as described in the video. Afterwards, I removed the original OS drive (by pulling the SATA cable) and tried to boot from the clone, but it would not boot. Only after using the rescue CD I had prepared in advance with "Fix Windows Boot Problems" on the clone did it boot from it! I would recommend not deleting the original hard disk until the clone has booted a few times without problems. That way you always have a fallback option. Once you are sure your clone is working properly, you can always delete the original disk... Thank you so much for this great guide. It made the whole process so much easier for me!
@@accessrandom I very much like this video. I have learnt new things but I'm stucked after successfully cloning my HDD to m2. nvme. I couldn't change my boot sequence from the bios. I can only see my HDD listed even though my files and folders structures are the same on both drives. I've tried disabling secure boot but still cannot configure booting sequence from my m2 nvme. My laptop is an Hp G8.
Great video mate. It is the second time that you saved me. First I cloned equal size HD to SDD. As mentioned before (for people looking for answers) follow the whole process and made the mofications on the bios. The clone was doing fine, but I made the mistake to put again the HD in order to format it (maybe it was better to format it by using a conector and plug it in a USB drive). The recovery disk saved my day. Today I cloned a smaller SDD to a bigger SDD. If you are doing the same follow the process described at 9:45. Macrium has changed a little bit, modify the partition size using the buttons to get the right size in "GB and MB". Thanks again!
My GF has an Inspiron 5570 which I had planned to update to 32 GB of RAM. A bit freaked by Dell's lack of any access plate etc., requiring the "unsnap" procedure. Your excellent video has reassured me that I'll be able to do this without breaking anything. I do have "spudgers" etc as I am a "fix it" kinda guy. But it gets better! I had no idea that A. this PC would support the M2, separate (and much faster) SSD drive, nor that B. they have become quite reasonably priced, or C. that putting one in could be such a low-risk procedure as it's a second drive, first one stays as is. I'm familiar with Macrium Reflect so this should be fine once I have that stupid case unsnapped. I must agree with what others have said about the quality of your videos. They are truly superb, probably the best I have seen (and heard) anywhere. I am kind of a fanatic about audio, and the number of videos I see but can't hear so well due to some Godawful "music" blaring, etc., don't get me started. And your voice is 100% broadcast quality as well. The graphics are excellent also and they round out the videos. You have spoiled me for the "typical" TH-cam effort, I am afraid! No disrespect to others meant by this, I am grateful to anyone who takes the time to share what they know. But such a crystal clear path to another person's knowledge, skill, and experience is absolutely a gift. Thank you!
Superb video, thank you so much! Just want to ask: why is it necessary to repair the boot code at [16:22] when the cloned windows starts up OK, shown at 12:42? thanks again 👍👍
You're welcome, and thanks. I've found that the BIOS can latch onto the boot information on the hard drive even after you set the boot disk as the SSD (in fact, you can try rebooting after you clean the hard drive - you may have problems booting to the SSD at that point). I've discovered that running the rescue disk fixes that problem without fail.
@@accessrandom I had the same question like the OP!!! Hence, thank you for this little tip b/c I usually do not experience that kind of issue. But good to know! AMAZING video: well-presented and concisely explained in a way that even lay people would understand! That's a gift!
@@accessrandom I just had this exact issue. Skipped the final step and my PC wouldn’t boot after 3 days. Just like he said, must have latched onto my other drive and couldn’t find a windows install even though it’s not in the bootable options in my uefi. THANK YOU.
So yeah this is the one of the best tech walk-through's online. Upgrading from Lexan 550gb to Samsung 960 evo 1tb on Skytech Shiva Win11 went smooth and no issues. Since reflect is now a paid service I used the ver 8 trial with no issue. Just a mention about the V8 reflect, it has a option to " float to left/right for the partitions, so they can b placed in order. I just selected the ones that needed to be moved and told them to float right to fit the main install disk. Thank you for this guide. Really appreciated.
I’ve stopped on the part where you have 6 partitions, I only have 5 partitions showing. Is that okay? Am using a 5 year old Alienware R2 windows 10, Great video by the way!!!!
I ended up getting error code: 0xc000000e on that last step and couldn't access that recovery menu and PC wouldn't boot. If that happens then I managed to press and hold the start button 3 times for a couple of second then that got me into the bios and I booted from the USB from there and finished the last step
After further review it seems that people with only two partitions on their windows drive have trouble with Macrium and their Windows Boot Manager becomes disabled since it is on the partition that Macrium disables when doing the last step even though it is not the boot partition. It would explain why activating the partition fixed the problem since this partition must be set to active in order to load the boot files for people with two partition drives.
@@systemfreeze3809 I know this reply is late but you can still do it from Where you boot to Macrium to run the repair MBR step before you boot into windows. You can open the command prompt from here where you can activate it
came back just to repeat the final steps. although my pc works well without doing it.. I still did it just in case. Thank you so much for the video. This video deserves to be seen by more
This is indeed one of the best, if not the best practical video I have ever seen. And of course, it made my switch from HDD system disk to SSD work on the first try.
Since this was made for Dell I watched this video like 5 times and it has flawlessly worked very well on Hp laptop 14s. Simply too too good!! Thanks a lot friend !! I wish others could have mentioned which laptop brand they tried it on to help the new non-Dell guys.
DON'T SKIP THE RESCUE/RECOVERY DISK STEP OR YOU'RE HOSED. Just knocked out a windows 10 clone operation - cloned from an old SATA ssd to a shiny new m.2. It was really sketchy. The cloned m.2 wouldn't boot into windows until I remembered that rescue disk step. The BIOS didnt even give the option. It booted straight into Macrium with the rescue disk and let me recover the m.2 clone though, rewrote the master boot record, and completed a few more operations to make the m.2 bootable. Everything seems to be in order now after some driver issues/updates (new motherboard too). Major save thanks for Macrium and this YT vid.
This was probably one of the better videos out there in clearly explaining this task. There are several videos that explain only half the process while leaving out the important parts. Thanks for the video
Thanks! Macrium works like a charm! I used it to swap HDDs to WD SSDs on my friends computer. Made an image, kept all the programs, documents and settings. Took 2 hours, runs as new. I didn't expect it to be so easy
The step by step tutorial in this video is top notch! Hands down. I followed to clone my surface pro 8 to a new ssd. However, when I inserted the new ssd to my surface. It wouldn't boot no matter what. So I think it got something to do with these UEFI thing. The surface recognized my ssd (because when I got into system files to find a bootable image, the SSD drive was shown there), but it was just not bootable. Options to boot shown in UEFI as: Windows Bootable Image Internal Storage Usb storage And something else. Then I gotta use a microsd card that I copied all the windows recovery image files, to install windows on this new ssd. Here is how things got interested. Put my sd card into a usb reader, then from that to an USB-C adapter to my surface. No drive was recognized by the surface. I then used my USB -Hub to connect to the surface, and plugged the USB reader with microsd card in, the surface still wouldnt recognize the drive. Took me hours to try to fully format the SD card to FAT32 and to find a solution. Turns out the solution was simply as .... if you have a MicroSD reader as the one you use for your camera, use that and plug it into your USB-HUB that connects to the surface. I dont get why the surface wont read the SD card off a USB reader. But if anyone is doing the same thing on their Surface pro 8. Hopefully this will save you sometime, or even from buying a USB Flash 😅
The process of expanding your partition to fill the drive has been made easier in Macrium Reflect 8. I haven't finished the process of moving my OS drive to another yet but this has been very helpful so far.
Man I just can’t thank you enough!! I bought a used laptop for my younger brother and it was so laggy. I bought a ssd card and put it but didn’t work until I saw this video after following all these easy and clear steps. Again .. Thank you ❤
Confirmed working as of writing! Im using lenovo ideapad 300-15isk and had my 1tb hdd replaced with ssd. Cloned my hdd to ssd then swapped them. The usb recovery tool saved me after 4 attempts of recloning it! Did not thought it was necessary for this process! Thanks access random!
Many thanks for your tutorial, I managed to clone my son's pc with your detailed video. Everything went smoothly using the software that you mentioned, our dilema was to find out where to change the boot sequence on an MSI Gaming 6 motherboard..found it in the end. Test boots and all good, so finally erased previous hdd with command prompt as mentioned, restarted and all is good, no need to go through the recovery process. You the man 🍻
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► If you have only two partitions and are getting an error during the repair step, here is a solution, thanks to fullylaced23:
It’s worth noting that for some reason my drive only had two partitions it as opposed to the general 5-6. Furthermore when running the last step to repair the boot I got a “partition sector error” causing me to be unable to boot with either no OS being shown or a corrupted boot. I was able to fix this by setting the partitions to active in the drive which I only thought to do because of the error and this ended up fixing my problem. However I don’t know why this occurred or why the error happens in the repair step. Any way you can shine a light on this or make a pinned comment about this issue because there is a lot of forum posts but not actual solutions. As a matter of fact this might be the first time I’ve solved my own problem.
After further review it seems that people with only two partitions on their windows drive have trouble with Macrium and their Windows Boot Manager becomes disabled since it is on the partition that Macrium disables when doing the last step even though it is not the boot partition. It would explain why activating the partition fixed the problem since this partition must be set to active in order to load the boot files for people with two partition drives.
► Going above and beyond the procedure from Macrium (as seen in the description), here is a solution about Bitlocker from Al B:
BEWARE of Bitlocker Encryption. I followed all steps which worked perfectly except for ‘Fix Boot Problems’ in Macrium Rescue. This process did not work leaving me in a bind with no BCD (Boot Configuration Data File) so my laptop would not boot from the SSD nor the HDD which had been cleaned. Apparently when I booted from the new cloned SSD, data was encrypted by Bitlocker. Luckily, When I booted from the Macrium rescue media, I was able to go into CMD mode (bottom left corner of window) and manually decrypt my new C: drive using the ‘manage-bed’ command. You will need the Bitlocker password for the C: drive when using the manage-bed command. I keep mine in my MS account. It is much easier to do this via control panel after rebooting from the newly cloned drive, but BEFORE the one time reboot into Macrium recovery.
► A protip from Conquesticle:
An easier way to access BIOS from the desktop is by pressing shift and clicking restart simultaneously. Then troubleshoot > advanced options > uefi firmware settings.
Mann! Come on now, we're obliged to you!
Hearty Thanks!!!
Heyy I'm actually facing a wierd issue with my laptop, an Asus x505za purchased only recently.
Can you please tell me how I may contact you, Instagram or something such would do I guess
@@RamSharma-90_64 I'm not really active on Instagram but I actively monitor here. What type of problem are you having?
@@accessrandom dude I'd be wanting to share pictures with you which is gonna require some sort of a messenger app.
Something you could accommodate...
Hey, I followed your steps but I cloned from a ssd to a hard drive, it brings me to that blue screen page, but when I click continue it restarts the computer and brings me back to the screen!
Everyone. DO NOT SKIP THE LAST STEP. Just saved hours of time for me. I had skipped it and after a few days my pc stopped booting correctly. I proceeded to pull this video back up on my phone, and follow the final instructions with the rescue disk since I still had made it during the video, and bam, problem solved. THANK YOU access random! One of the best tutorials I’ve ever seen.
Thank you for the feedback on your experience with the rescue disk. 🙏 I made sure the video included it as part of the procedure in cases like this (though I'm not sure why it stopped booting correctly after three days - usually, it will work well until the boot partition on the HDD is wiped).
@@accessrandom yeah I followed every other step in your tutorial, woke up to my PC being off completely. Turned it on and had a blue screen, then remembered your video. My pc had updated while I slept and just couldn’t boot back up for some reason. The old drive is still connected and in the same slot but it’s wiped, and didn’t even show up as an option to boot to.
CjThrasher can you explain this a little more. I had the same issue but forgetting I had my back up boot I tried a million things then just decided to try a fresh install but my drive can’t do it no matter what I try.
Also doesn’t help that that drive is now 9 hours away that I’m back at school 🥴
@@WHITEPERSUAS1ON you might be able to fix it if you’re able to make a new usb boot disk I’m not sure since it’s been awhile since I did this but like he said in the video it fixes some issues like my pc was still latching onto the cleaned drive and trying to boot from it even though my boot order was correct so it wouldn’t find an operating system at all.
CjThrasher yeah, that’s been my issue. I even downloaded Linux Mint which I could boot to from a USB and all my files were there on my SSD but I couldn’t access “WINDOWS” file. Weird thing.
It’s nice to know I’m not the only one who has had this problem. It’s had me going insane the last 3 days 😂
This is hands down the best video for a daunting task such as migrating data like this. This walked me through the whole process for the first time and everything went smoother than I expected. Although I would recommend access random to either take down the older video, or really, really point out you need the recovery disk. I almost didn't make the recovery disk cause on the other video it doesn't seem to be as important and things seem to work out until you see this one.
This is video does such a great job of explaining a terrifying process. Thank you
Yes it can all get confusing and you really don't want to format or erase the wrong drive by mistake. Although one time I had a drive with errors, and formatted it, but did not use it, so the 'bytes' of old data were still there. I used software to recover the data, and my goodness, it recovered in a rather jumbled way - EVERYTHING! I had so many like 200 byte files, I knew they were nothing, but I was able to get my main data back off of the drive. Something got jumbled and the drive was unreadable, I forget what, but a format and recovery straightened it all out.
"Leftover CDs from the 90s" - I've watched this video at least three times while setting up my SSD and that line cracks me up every time. Ain't it the truth?! Also have a ton of the slim jewel cases left over.
Lol, I just need to fit my stack of 5.25" floppy disks into one of my videos somehow 😀
Me too, I have like 500 million DVDs and CDs from the old days... lol
This is superb. The balance between simple, orderly instructions and just enough 'techie' explanation to give context is unsurpassed.
Thank you for the feedback 🙏.
Just switched from a 120gb ssd to a 480gb nvme, thank you, you're a life saver !
(I must say there is a few things that changed in the meantime, for example you don't have to mess up with partitions size, they added a button "clone partition" for that. You just select the option to shrink/expand automatically the partitions and it's done)
noted
Fantastic tutorial, I installed and configured an SSD without fear and without problems.
An important tip: many notebooks come without a CD drive, they need a new usb flash drive for the "rescue disk", and the usb flash stick needs to be cleaned and configured using the CMD prompt before use (diskpart, select disk, select disk n, clean , convert mbr). Thanks and congrats!
You're welcome, and thank for the tip 🙏
Why they no longer include disc readers is beyond me. Like my sister asked me 'do they even make pcs any more with dvd/cd players?'. Apparently not. My new to me, used laptop doesn't have one. But you can buy cd/dvd/blu ray players for not too much money and cable them up and use them on your laptop to play music or watch movies or make music cds for yourself, friends and family.
I bought a new SSD and failed many times last night doing this on my own, watched a couple videos that weren't detailed enough for my 12 iq brain, tyvm for this it was so detailed and easy to follow and I am forever thankful.
You're welcome, and thank you 👍🙏
12 iq I'm dying
Likewise, this video was a lifesaver. It showed me *exactly* what I wanted to do
Also we all forget that sometimes it is so hard to do something, but if you step back, stop and wait a day, on day 2 it all makes sense and is so easy, while the day before you were pulling out your hair. I think our brains need to decompress, especially when doing something that we are sort of familiar with but don't do that often.
I am writting this comment because i wanna thank you from all my heart for this tutorials. I had an Acer Aspire f5-771g and i ordered a new M.2 nvME card. My expectations were pretty low, since updating hardware is not my best task. I followed exactly your steps and here I am booting in less than 10 secs compared to the 1 min with the HDD drive. Thank you.
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏.
My PC uses like 3 minutes with my 1TB HDD to start up WIN10 Pro, I hope the SSD will do that faster... Looking forward to it...
To be honest, I don't even know why I just watched this video, because it's something I do fairly regularly for family and friends, often using Macrium. However, that being said, this is hands down one of the best walk-throughs I've ever watched. Very concise and well produced.
Thank you for the kind words 🙏 I really appreciate it.
Bro I encounter errors why
This is how all tutorials should be, very concise and detailed at the same time, and also a nice pace. Now, in my case for some reason I couldn't do the procedure within Windows, it always gave me an error message, but then I remember that Rescue Disc you asked us to create, I boot from it and did all the steps and it went OK, so for those who have the same problem as I had, you can use the rescue disc and hopefully it'll all be fine.
Thank you Sir, an absolute must for this process, you saved me hours of rummaging through useless web pages and videos. Restored a couple of older laptops to useful machines I can donate to students in need. Without a doubt the best guide out there.
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏. Glad you found the video useful.
@@accessrandom do you need w
To turn on wifi while cloning files
@@sunrise9424 No, you don't need to turn on wifi. The state of the wifi will be the same after the clone as before it.
@@accessrandom noted.
Great tutorial. I have done it a few times in the past but the tutorial helps to make sure I do it correctly.
I would rather recommend that you first complete the clone and be sure you are able to boot from the newly cloned disk before formatting the old disk. It really gives you peace of mind knowing that you can always revert to your old disk if you mess things up.
Thank you for the feedback 🙏
I thought the same after my crazed moment; guess we shouldn't rely on, "the operation was a success (paraphrase)."
Will it cause any problem (especially during update) if I choose to keep all data including OS in the secondary drive?
its really good as it will change disk signatures to prevent disk signature collision which means you can leave both disks connected after connecting and boot fro either one..
yup, happened to me a week ago using another program, after cloning i wiped out my old ssd and it was complete chaos after that
This was my first time ever installing an M.2 into an existing system and you made it so simple and easy to follow. No problems on my end at all and I got it done within a few hours due to how large my files were. Thank you so much!
You're welcome, and many thanks for the feedback on the successful clone 🙏
Same, excellent video. Much thanks.
Did you use the recovery disk thing?
@@pokemonfan442yeah, I put mine on a usb drive.
this channel is so underrated, this is legit the best ssd tutorial ive seen. thank you so much for your help!
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏👍
I agree, simple and informative, thanks
Absolutely yes, best cloning instruction ever.
this is an absolute god of a tutorial, i ve been surfing the internet for many years, yet, this remains the absolute best in tutorials, (skips incomprehensive stuff, but addreses the most confusing things in a very comprehensible way) 10/10
He has a very soothing voice! You're learning while relaxing!
I just spent three hours (due to my slow computer's HDD which I'm replacing using the steps laid out in this video) upgrading my HDD to SSD. These steps, explanations, context, and graphics/video are arguably amongst the most helpful I've come across. THANK YOU for this video. The upgrade seems to hold. I am hoping this lasts (and yes I made and have my Macrium recovery disk files on USB).
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏.
Fantastic! Best Macrium tutorial I've found, to put a smaller ssd into a laptop. This video made it easy, every step is perfectly described. Don't hesitate, this video makes it easy. Highly recommended!
Thank you my friend - I appreciate it.
Extremely helpful view. This taught me how to clear my drives too through the command prompt, which I wasn't expecting.
Your pacing is phenomenal and you're very detailed. I've been binging SSD cloning videos and this is a 10/10 that helped me last night. Other videos were 7/10 at best. Nice editing, King.
Thank you for the feedback 🙏. Glad you found the video useful.
@@accessrandom best video made by you..including 3 cups of coffee in the end.
I don't know if you are a teacher outside your TH-cam channel but you are terrific at explaining the process and the concepts clearly and concisely. Thank you for this video, truly helped me. The only thing that was a very slight hiccup was the rebooting process. I know you explained at the start that this was for a specific brand of PC but you might want to reiterate that when rebooting to use the recovery disk that the screen and process might look very different when finding and selecting the recovery device. But again, such an awesome video and you rock!
You're welcome, and many thanks for the suggestion 🙏.
After cloning my drive, I changed the boot order to make my NVME SSD first. It was still booting to the HDD. I unplugged the SATA Hard drive and rebooted and it went into a recovery screen. It was missing a file. I booted into the Macrium USB and did the fix boot issues. That fixed it for me! Just wanted to say this in case any one else comes across a similar issue. Thanks for the help!
This literally saved me, I had been trying to migrate my OS for hours before I found this video
Thank you - glad you found the video helpful. 👍
Just got a nvme found one cheap on black friday this video helped a lot now I dont run windows on a hard drive
This is a brilliant video - so clear and detailed for every step.
The amazing thing is that in reality the software worked exactly as shown.
I had spent several days and at least 30 attempts to clone my hard drive to a smaller SSD using two different software packages and each attempt had failed miserably.
I had begun to think that my usb 2 connection to the new SSD was not fast enough.
Then everything worked with Macrium 7 Free - exactly as shown in the video.
Thanks very very much.
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏.
This video saved me after 2 sleepless nights. I have Acronis True Image licence, but it was failing without giving any information on why it is failing. Tried multiple things but only Macrium Reflect worked fine and special thanks to you for explaining everything in detail. You got a subscriber.
For those who are searching on how to delete protected partition, this should help:
diskpart
list disk //Note down disk number
select disk N
list part //note down partition num
select part M
delete part override
You're welcome, and thank you for the tips on deleting partitions 🙏. Very happy to have you here. For a video guide, I have a video that might help also: th-cam.com/video/sfS143DikPE/w-d-xo.html
I just love this guy's voice and tone. It's so calming 😌
I think it is a computer voice
Best presentation ever on migrating OS to SSD! Appreciate all the animations & highlights to make the points immediately obvious - thanks also for all the small details to make the installation perfect (like exact resizing and ordering of the partitions)
Thanks for the tutorial. It was excellent. I installed a new 512 SSD and additional RAM in my Inspirion 5580. I had approached DELL and got a ridiculous quote from them.
I had a slight problem because DELL shipped my device without an adapter screw to secure the SSD to the device. This has been reported by other Inspiron 5580 users in the DELL community forum. DELL claimed since the device was not purchased with an SSD, I should purchase a new part even though the device is under warranty. I have fixed the SSD with paper tape since DELL dosen't have the adapter.
I had a slight glitch with Bitlocker encryption, but this was easily resolved with the Microsoft key for Bitlocker. Other than that the process you explained worked perfectly.
Thank you for the detailed information and the success story 👍 For a part that they could probably source for less than a cent, Dell should really include the screw on all models.
You can buy quite cheaply 'pc repair kits' that include screws, screw drivers, forceps, bits, just about everything you need when working on your laptop or desktop. Most of them are very reasonably priced. You can also but m.2 nvme screws, say 5 or 10 or 25, that's how they are usually sold in small bags.
To anyone who didn't want to wipe the HDD and wanted to delete the windows files manually to save other files, don't do the last step until you make sure you don't have 2 installations of windows! I did it the wrong way and even in the f2 menu would say my SSD was the first boot but it would start the old HDD, and it would always show a blue screen "choose your windows installation" when starting my laptop. To fix this I started my SSD windows installation from this blue screen menu and saved the files I wanted from my HDD to SSD and then wiped the HDD, make sure you have your recovery usb/cd! Before wiping it! after this I did the last step (fix boot windows problems in macrium) and with only 1 windows installed it worked fine! My laptop now starts in 10 seconds , thanks for the tutorial!! 🤗
You're welcome, and thank you for confirming the last step 🙏
This is one of the best instructional videos I've ever seen. Clear, concise, easy to understand and no wasted time. THANK YOU!!!!!
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏
You can skip the bios thing, just go straight and wipe the old disk and when you do the "fix boot problems" thing on macrium it will automatically assign the new drive as default boot drive because the old one has nothing in it.
Hi, I have Dell Latitude 6410, and when I go into Boot Sequence -> UEFI, nothing shows up. There is no Secure Boot options in BIOS either. Is it OK to skip the BIOS thing in my case, and just go ahead and wipe the old disk?
@@ngoc-maitran3178 no
With Macrium reflect free I cloned a 2 TB Samsung 879 QVO from a 7 yr old 250 GB Samsung. Clear Disk Info said it has less than 35% of life left so I didn't want to take a chance. I followed your instructions and it worked like a champ.
Thanks for the feedback 👍.
THANK YOU SO MUCH SAVED MY SANITY LOVE YOU AND YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL VOICE
You're welcome, and thank you. 🙏
Thank you so much ! I was literally struggling to understand why going to a larger SSD it would just separate another it into another partition instead of making it one, this helped a ton !
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏. Glad you found the video useful.
@@accessrandom ya im having trouble finding a free program that will migrate/clonehe the os for free the website has change, which one do you think i should download.
I don't think they support the home version anymore.
@@soggybubble From their download page and feature lists, it looks like "Reflect 7 Free" matches the one I used.
Thank you, I spent all day wondering why my SSD wouldn't boot. You are a life saver.
You're welcome, and thank you for sharing the success story 🙏
Just want to say that this tutorial is still relevant in 2022. I managed to clone the HDD of a new laptop to a new SSD even before going through the Windows Setup. I created the WinPE bootable image using another PC and did the cloning process in the PE environment itself.
Thanks a lot 👍👍
Literally updated the day before I installed my m.2 drive. Kinda freaky that I find this video exactly when I needed it.
Perfect timing :) Thanks for visiting.
The last step of using Mecriun Fix failed to replace sector boot record (or something like that) and now my pc wont boot 😭
@@ByngerX May I ask how many partitions you had on your original disk and how many you cloned? Also - when you ran the clean command, are you sure you had selected the original hard disk and not the SSD?
Finally fix it. I had my bios set to Legacy+UEFI, I switched it to just UEFI and it works now. I dont know what that means but im glad it works now! Still a great video thank you
Thanks for the update - that will be very helpful for others who run into the same situation.
This channel tutorial is very helpful! I get confused while i watching another channel, but this one good enough 👍
Many thanks 👍🙏. I'm glad you found the channel useful.
I was literally just attempting to do this and suddenly this was in my subscription feed. Thanks so much!!
You're welcome, and thank you - perfect timing 😀👍
More or less same here LoL!
@@RamSharma-90_64 On the same page! Getting a 970 EVO and gonna install it on my Alienware A51M in a couple days!
This is one of the best videos that talks about the entire process involved in cloning
an OS. I followed all the steps and was able to successfully migrate my os from hdd to ssd. Although, out of my ignorance I made a mistake by skipping the step to create the macrium recovery disk. Due to this after wiping clean the hdd post completion of migration my system wouldn’t boot up. So I request everyone to follow all the steps properly and never skip any 😅. Thanks to lot to this channel for making such wonderful videos. keep making such useful videos.
You're welcome, and thank you for confirming the importance of the rescue disk 🙏.
what did you do to fix after it didn't boot up
thank you so much for explaining everything in an easy to understand way. did this to my own pc after upgrading from a 7 year old HDD (i know, its speeds were not great haha) to an SSD. im usually very nervous when doing something like this but i went in and had absolutely no nerves at all thanks to how excellent this tutorial is! many thanks!
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏. Glad you found the video helpful.
You are a serious life saver! Apart from some annoying bitlocker stuff, all I did was follow your video and everything worked perfectly! Thank you so much!!
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏. Glad you found the video useful.
What did you do to get Bitlocker working again?
@@ryanmartin8966 great question! I had to go to my Microsoft account and dig through all of the bitlocker keys online tied to it. Unfortunately, this did not work out for me in the long run. A day or two after my comment here, I decided to wipe the old nvme and switch slots. That's of course when I got errors telling me I didn't have a valid OS and that something was corrupted. It was an ASUS laptop, so it did not play nice with the new NVME hardware. I had to completely wipe the corrupted OS and ran into the whole new headache in the world of custom proprietary OS disk images hiding unreleased drivers not available anywhere after a vanilla windows 10 install. Ugh. Long story short, I was able to return the laptop and swore off ASUS. I would suggest this process for desktop, but not laptops (unless you're replacing a secondary drive or the OS is mostly vanilla out of the box). And sorry for the rant 😅
Accurate, methodical, and complete, the best kind of tutorial.
Thank you 🙏.
Does it also work with HP devices ?
I used this tutorial fora Dell Inspiron 5570, and aside from having to do a 3 hour disk repair (which the program told me how to fix) it worked flawlessly
Thank you for the feedback on the clone 🙏
This is easily the most thorough and educational tutorial I've ever used. Thank you so much!
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏.
Like others have said, this is the best tutorial I have ever seen. You give very concise and complete instructions and explanations for everything you do, speak very clearly, and even go the extra mile in the end to show what users will probably want to do. I bought you a coffee and have never done that for a creator before.
Thank you so much 🙏- I really appreciate it!
Installing a new m.2 ssd in my parents' laptop, this video was perfect. Thank you!
You're welcome, and thank you for the feedback 🙏.
Thanks for the tutorial, I totally missed the "Clone this Disk" option. Also the tip about repairing the Windows boot is great.
Macrium Reflect made resizing for cloning to a larger partition better since this video. There's a button to "float right" any partitions at the end of the drive that should not be resized, to make room for the middle partition that will grow.
Hey man, I'd like to thank you for this tutorial! The cloning process took 4 hours to complete though, but it was worth it! My slow laptop has been turned into a fast one thanks to you!
You're welcome, and thank you for the feedback on the successful clone 🙏.
@@accessrandom I've been waiting for 3 hours for it to clone. Is it better to not use my computer while it is cloning?
@@noisnecsa995 Since Macrium Reflect uses VSS (Volume Shadow Copy) technology, theoretically, you should be able to use your computer while cloning. However, I would leave it alone just in case...
@@accessrandom I got it done, thanks anyways.
@@accessrandom what? Text is flipped
I can't say thanks enough!!! Video is clear and to the point, migration finished so fast I almost missed it. This is by far one of the best and easiest migration videos to follow. Much appreciated!!!
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏. Glad you found the video useful.
This was such a wonderful tutorial. I’ve done it before but this was way more helpful and efficient than the last time I’ve done it
Many thanks for the feedback 🙏.
Even with windows 11 this worked beautifully, I was having lots of issues with my hard drive and decided to switch to an SSD and this video literally saved my laptop from being destroyed
Hey iam using minitool for migration I have some questions.
1st - in my laptop my ssd is from sata and my ssd is from nvme m.2 will there will be any issue from migratiing os to nvme from sata
2nd - i want to migrate only system (w11 os) only in my ssd because in my hdd there is data of around 600gb and my ssd is around only 250 gb. Can I do it only copying system related file's?
Absolute hero, been putting off switching to an SSD for years due to being scared of messing it up, easily one of the best instructional videos I’ve watched 👍
Many thanks 🙏 - I'm glad you found the video useful.
Crystal clear American English! Thank you kindly, sir.
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏
@@accessrandom Your video inspired me to order a SSD and replace my boot drive. I followed your example and it went as smooth as silk. Gotta love the amazingly fast bootup. Thanks again.
@@RickLowrance Fantastic - thanks for the feedback on the success.
Carefully, he is a Hero 😌❤️
Yas, very helpful. On my desktop I just bunged SSD in, cloned it, changed cables around and booted from it and it worked fine.
*It is a lot different for a laptop...* That rescue media was very good idea.
Thank you for the feedback 🙏.
I had to run to the store to pick up some more coffee before I began. Worked perfectly, thank you so much.
😉 You're welcome, and thank you 🙏.
I like this guys step by step with simple and effective way explain this things . Thank dude.
yw, and thank you 👍
This is by far one of the best OS/system management tutorials I have seen. Incredibly precise...and therefore *indispensable* for transferring boot drives. Kudos!
So your tutorial was most applicable to me. Few things differed. I used version 8 of the software and I had to create recovery media on a usb drive. I then was forced to boot to that usb drive to create my backup. Afterwards everything was the same. Thanks again.
Thank you for confirming the differences. I'll need to update the video again to reflect the new version of the software...
Thank you for the amazing tutorial! I'm a total beginner and just made my machine 50x quicker thanks to you :)
I have been looking for this video since 2 weeks, finally found it.
Glad you were able to find it 👍. Happy to have you here.
Another brilliant video, super professional.
Also a lovely accent, possibly Jamaican.
I used this way back when and it worked great. Time to use it again to do the same thing - swapping from HDD to larger M.2. Not only is your voice steady, reassuring and even calming the instructions are fantastic. Thanks a million for this content!
I am using Samsung Data Migration.
That works perfectly and is free, It works only with Samsung SSDs. I have 2 Samsung M.2 SSDs. I make weekly an system clone from the C: partition.
It takes 13 minutes.
Thank you for the feedback 🙏. I've heard a lot of good things about Samsung's software.
Did you need to do the rescue disk step with Samsung data migration app? I’m still not quite understanding why that needs to be done here
Huh? Make a clone that the theme of this TH-cam.
@@lexpee no need to be rude. My question is about the rescue media step.
That's not my intention. I changed it.
I feel like the sole purpose of this video is to show off your mountain of CDs lol
I'm trying to come up with a video idea where I can show off my collection of 5.25" floppy disks 😀
This is by far the best tutorial for drive cloning. Informative and easily digestible. If anyone is striving to make great tutorials start taking notes!
Thank you for the kind words 🙏.
I cloned my OS drive to a larger SSD, exactly as described in the video. Afterwards, I removed the original OS drive (by pulling the SATA cable) and tried to boot from the clone, but it would not boot. Only after using the rescue CD I had prepared in advance with "Fix Windows Boot Problems" on the clone did it boot from it! I would recommend not deleting the original hard disk until the clone has booted a few times without problems. That way you always have a fallback option. Once you are sure your clone is working properly, you can always delete the original disk...
Thank you so much for this great guide. It made the whole process so much easier for me!
That was a flawless tutorial. I followed it to the letter and it solved all the problems I had after installing a new ssd. Thank you!
You're welcome, and many thanks for the feedback on the success story 👍🙏
@@accessrandom I very much like this video. I have learnt new things but I'm stucked after successfully cloning my HDD to m2. nvme. I couldn't change my boot sequence from the bios. I can only see my HDD listed even though my files and folders structures are the same on both drives. I've tried disabling secure boot but still cannot configure booting sequence from my m2 nvme. My laptop is an Hp G8.
That was really amazing explanation...
I really enjoyed it, i really appreciate every single minute of the videos, its very nice
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏. Very glad to have you here.
Very well articulated with clear and concise instructions, excellently presented, bravo good sir and thank you :)
You're welcome, and many thanks 🙏.
Great video mate. It is the second time that you saved me. First I cloned equal size HD to SDD. As mentioned before (for people looking for answers) follow the whole process and made the mofications on the bios. The clone was doing fine, but I made the mistake to put again the HD in order to format it (maybe it was better to format it by using a conector and plug it in a USB drive). The recovery disk saved my day.
Today I cloned a smaller SDD to a bigger SDD. If you are doing the same follow the process described at 9:45. Macrium has changed a little bit, modify the partition size using the buttons to get the right size in "GB and MB".
Thanks again!
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏. I'll need to update the video again using the latest Macrium...
My GF has an Inspiron 5570 which I had planned to update to 32 GB of RAM. A bit freaked by Dell's lack of any access plate etc., requiring the "unsnap" procedure. Your excellent video has reassured me that I'll be able to do this without breaking anything. I do have "spudgers" etc as I am a "fix it" kinda guy.
But it gets better! I had no idea that A. this PC would support the M2, separate (and much faster) SSD drive, nor that B. they have become quite reasonably priced, or C. that putting one in could be such a low-risk procedure as it's a second drive, first one stays as is. I'm familiar with Macrium Reflect so this should be fine once I have that stupid case unsnapped.
I must agree with what others have said about the quality of your videos. They are truly superb, probably the best I have seen (and heard) anywhere. I am kind of a fanatic about audio, and the number of videos I see but can't hear so well due to some Godawful "music" blaring, etc., don't get me started. And your voice is 100% broadcast quality as well.
The graphics are excellent also and they round out the videos. You have spoiled me for the "typical" TH-cam effort, I am afraid! No disrespect to others meant by this, I am grateful to anyone who takes the time to share what they know. But such a crystal clear path to another person's knowledge, skill, and experience is absolutely a gift. Thank you!
My mom always said I had a face for radio 😀 Thanks for the vote of confidence - I appreciate the feedback 🙏
Love this guy, Huge help!
Superb video, thank you so much! Just want to ask: why is it necessary to repair the boot code at [16:22] when the cloned windows starts up OK, shown at 12:42? thanks again 👍👍
You're welcome, and thanks. I've found that the BIOS can latch onto the boot information on the hard drive even after you set the boot disk as the SSD (in fact, you can try rebooting after you clean the hard drive - you may have problems booting to the SSD at that point). I've discovered that running the rescue disk fixes that problem without fail.
@@accessrandom I had the same question like the OP!!! Hence, thank you for this little tip b/c I usually do not experience that kind of issue. But good to know!
AMAZING video: well-presented and concisely explained in a way that even lay people would understand! That's a gift!
@@junk3386 Thank you 👍🙏. Happy to help.
@@accessrandom I just had this exact issue. Skipped the final step and my PC wouldn’t boot after 3 days. Just like he said, must have latched onto my other drive and couldn’t find a windows install even though it’s not in the bootable options in my uefi. THANK YOU.
So yeah this is the one of the best tech walk-through's online. Upgrading from Lexan 550gb to Samsung 960 evo 1tb on Skytech Shiva Win11 went smooth and no issues. Since reflect is now a paid service I used the ver 8 trial with no issue. Just a mention about the V8 reflect, it has a option to " float to left/right for the partitions, so they can b placed in order. I just selected the ones that needed to be moved and told them to float right to fit the main install disk. Thank you for this guide. Really appreciated.
Thank you so much! This helped me well, I subscribed to you sir.
Many thanks 🙏 .Very happy to have you here 👍
I’ve stopped on the part where you have 6 partitions, I only have 5 partitions showing. Is that okay? Am using a 5 year old Alienware R2 windows 10,
Great video by the way!!!!
Thank you. Yes, you can continue with 5 partitions. In fact, on some systems, you may see as few as two.
This worked for my dell inspiron 3593 i5 10th generation
@@accessrandom I do have 4 on my laptop.
since i have a few disks left over from the 1990's (shows piles of disks) LMAO, I have them too
I just have to work my stack of 5.25" floppy disks from the 1980's into one of my videos someday 😀
Comprehensive and crisp. Gold standard for anyone who is planning to migrate OS from hdd to add.
Thank you - I appreciate it.
I ended up getting error code: 0xc000000e on that last step and couldn't access that recovery menu and PC wouldn't boot. If that happens then I managed to press and hold the start button 3 times for a couple of second then that got me into the bios and I booted from the USB from there and finished the last step
Thanks for the update and follow-up. This will be helpful for others who might run into the same problem.
After further review it seems that people with only two partitions on their windows drive have trouble with Macrium and their Windows Boot Manager becomes disabled since it is on the partition that Macrium disables when doing the last step even though it is not the boot partition. It would explain why activating the partition fixed the problem since this partition must be set to active in order to load the boot files for people with two partition drives.
How can I activate the partition if my boot manager is already disabled and I can’t load to windows only to the rescue media?
@@systemfreeze3809 I know this reply is late but you can still do it from Where you boot to Macrium to run the repair MBR step before you boot into windows. You can open the command prompt from here where you can activate it
Lmao I was having trouble and so I pulled up this vid. Didn't even watch the vid and now I got it working
came back just to repeat the final steps. although my pc works well without doing it.. I still did it just in case. Thank you so much for the video. This video deserves to be seen by more
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏.
This is indeed one of the best, if not the best practical video I have ever seen. And of course, it made my switch from HDD system disk to SSD work on the first try.
Since this was made for Dell I watched this video like 5 times and it has flawlessly worked very well on Hp laptop 14s. Simply too too good!! Thanks a lot friend !!
I wish others could have mentioned which laptop brand they tried it on to help the new non-Dell guys.
You're welcome, and thank you for the feedback on the HP 🙏.
DON'T SKIP THE RESCUE/RECOVERY DISK STEP OR YOU'RE HOSED.
Just knocked out a windows 10 clone operation - cloned from an old SATA ssd to a shiny new m.2. It was really sketchy. The cloned m.2 wouldn't boot into windows until I remembered that rescue disk step. The BIOS didnt even give the option. It booted straight into Macrium with the rescue disk and let me recover the m.2 clone though, rewrote the master boot record, and completed a few more operations to make the m.2 bootable. Everything seems to be in order now after some driver issues/updates (new motherboard too). Major save thanks for Macrium and this YT vid.
Thanks for the confirmation. I probably should have given a stronger warning at the end.
Very helpful even after 3 years still helps a lot of people
i've been eyeing this video since I was planning to get an upgrade from an HDD to SSD. Last night followed the steps, worked like a charm. SUBBED :)
This was probably one of the better videos out there in clearly explaining this task. There are several videos that explain only half the process while leaving out the important parts. Thanks for the video
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏.
Best video on a tricky topic. Covers almost everything you need and in very easy language without skipping any important details 👍
Thank you 🙏, much appreciated.
Thanks! Macrium works like a charm!
I used it to swap HDDs to WD SSDs on my friends computer.
Made an image, kept all the programs, documents and settings.
Took 2 hours, runs as new. I didn't expect it to be so easy
The step by step tutorial in this video is top notch! Hands down.
I followed to clone my surface pro 8 to a new ssd. However, when I inserted the new ssd to my surface. It wouldn't boot no matter what. So I think it got something to do with these UEFI thing. The surface recognized my ssd (because when I got into system files to find a bootable image, the SSD drive was shown there), but it was just not bootable. Options to boot shown in UEFI as: Windows Bootable Image
Internal Storage
Usb storage
And something else.
Then I gotta use a microsd card that I copied all the windows recovery image files, to install windows on this new ssd. Here is how things got interested. Put my sd card into a usb reader, then from that to an USB-C adapter to my surface. No drive was recognized by the surface. I then used my USB -Hub to connect to the surface, and plugged the USB reader with microsd card in, the surface still wouldnt recognize the drive. Took me hours to try to fully format the SD card to FAT32 and to find a solution.
Turns out the solution was simply as .... if you have a MicroSD reader as the one you use for your camera, use that and plug it into your USB-HUB that connects to the surface.
I dont get why the surface wont read the SD card off a USB reader. But if anyone is doing the same thing on their Surface pro 8. Hopefully this will save you sometime, or even from buying a USB Flash 😅
Thank you for the feedback and the lengthy, helpful write-up. Do you mind if I add this to the pinned comment, with credit to you?
The process of expanding your partition to fill the drive has been made easier in Macrium Reflect 8. I haven't finished the process of moving my OS drive to another yet but this has been very helpful so far.
I have done this process twice in the past month for my laptop and my father’s PC, you are a life saver
Thank you for the feedback on the successful clones 🙏.
I'm a novice and used this to update 3 SSDs on our home computers. No issues. Thanks!
You're welcome, and thanks for the feedback 🙏. Glad you found the video useful.
Man I just can’t thank you enough!!
I bought a used laptop for my younger brother and it was so laggy. I bought a ssd card and put it but didn’t work until I saw this video after following all these easy and clear steps. Again .. Thank you ❤
Confirmed working as of writing! Im using lenovo ideapad 300-15isk and had my 1tb hdd replaced with ssd. Cloned my hdd to ssd then swapped them. The usb recovery tool saved me after 4 attempts of recloning it! Did not thought it was necessary for this process! Thanks access random!
I have NEVER watched/listened to a tutorial video so well explained and with such CLEAR narration. Thanks!!!
That fix boot problems rescue disk really saved me. Had switched the drive but the PC wouldn't even recognize it.
Excellent video and thanks a lot.
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏.
Many thanks for your tutorial, I managed to clone my son's pc with your detailed video. Everything went smoothly using the software that you mentioned, our dilema was to find out where to change the boot sequence on an MSI Gaming 6 motherboard..found it in the end. Test boots and all good, so finally erased previous hdd with command prompt as mentioned, restarted and all is good, no need to go through the recovery process.
You the man 🍻
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏. Glad you found the video useful.