Cloning from Hard Drive to a smaller SSD with Acronis True Image
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- Video guide on how to clone the contents of your Hard Drive to a smaller SSD (assuming there is sufficient space to hold all the data!) using Acronis True Image.
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After several failed attempts to clone my old HDD of 1TB to a 250GB SSD, I found your brilliant video. It worked first time! Thank you very much.
Glad it helped!
how? I cant clone my 1tb hdd to 256gb ssd. My HDD's and SSD's interface are both in RAID.
I m in the same situation. 1tb hdd and 250gb ssd. Can u tell me how u did it
Your video is a great tutorial on cloning from a larger hard drive to a smaller SSD. I had used the Acronis software previously to clone a drive to an SSD of the same size. Cloning from a larger to smaller drive, however, threw me for a loop. Your video answered all my questions. I used the free Acronis software, supplied by Crucial, so it only works where one of the drives is a Crucial drive. Thank you for sharing your expertise on this potentially confusing subject.
Glad it helped
Thanks James, great info, followed your video and cloned 500GB HDD to 480GB SSD easily.
Glad it helped
Thank you!!! This video, along with a couple others, helped me tremendously. I had never done this before and I successfully accomplished installing new ram and ssd!
Glad it helped!
This is a great video but like others I had problems booting from the created media no matter what changes I made in the BIOS on my Lenovo all-in-one, which desperately needed an SSD upgrade. The Acronis software made the problem more excruciating because every click is another 20 second wait! Or more! I almost gave up because most cloners aren't really free or won't work for USB media. I stumbled across Diskgenius which is really free for MANY features including hot migration - no boot media at all. They don't even collect your email! The flow is Tools > System Migration > Automatic > Hot Migration. That's it! It captured all the crazy hidden and recovery partitions too. Swapped the drives and rebooted. Who hoo! New computer.
Thanks a lot! This worked for me. I was trying to make the AcronisDumbSoftware to work, i had it downloaded from the official website on my Windows 11, there is the new option besides shown one from video "Purpose of the clone: Bootable to current system; or another; Disk clone". I was stuck here because it does nothing after i try select any of these 3 options, from Windows and from boot, it just became more dumb.
Thought of clean installing Windows 11, but I'll have to reinstall and configure everything again. Then "I" stumbled upon your comment and installed the DiskGenius, to my surprise i am even able to select which partition to go where and i can EVEN modify them partitions on the go. THANKS A LOTS!!!!!!
I gave up on Acronis and downloaded Disk Genius. So is system migration the same as cloning? I’m replacing my C ssd with a bigger one and would like everything the same just a bigger drive.
thanks a lot Brue Computing. I was so confused to use the manual mode...THANKS ALOT
Great video. The problem I ran into was that the computer did not "see" the recovery boot stick when I shift+Restarted the system. What I did wrong was that I had connected the hard drive before I restarted, once I disconnected (read ripped out) the SSD Hard drive and restarted the system again the menu saw the boot stick and I continued with your tutorial which worked flawlessly. I tried cloning from Windows, it did clone the hard drive but it errored out when I tried to boot from it, your method works. Thanks again.
Good tips and glad it helped!
I did the same thing, and my computer did the same thing as yours.
This video helped a lot to clone HDD to Crucial SSD. Faced issue while selecting source disk i.e “unable to lock the disk. Boot your computer from linux based bootable media, then try again. I had to go through Acronis forums to fix that. Thanks
Yes, that is occasionally necessary, but the error message does largely explain what you need to do. Glad it was helpful though!
I had the exact same message, but the Linux option worked fine (1TB HDD to 50GB SSD). Also had to change bios to legacy boot option.
@@BrueComputing i have the same problem and didnt find a solution. Can you help me please?
Can you send me the link to fix it please? I didnt find
@@clementguillon9291 use Linux option while creating bootable media that worked for me
Brilliant thanks, I'll be doing mine tonight
Installed acronis bootable winre on DVD+R. Placed new ssd drive into laptop, connected old hhd with USB cable. Reboot computer press escape wait a few minutes and follow the steps. finally worked for me.
Hello James!
Thanks for wonderful explanation,
Question:please tell is this possible to make a clone from CompactFlash to USB/CompactFlash with Acronis True Image, It simply from manual option(clone disk) or option menu is best option.
Thanks for your response!
Thank you! Very useful video.
Glad it was helpful!
Very nice tutorial. I have a question for you. What must I do after I press OK in the minute 9:39 of your video. How I going to the desktop of my laptop if I'm still in that window of Acronic. That was the only part of the videi I did't understand.
Thanks. This is really helpful.
You're welcome!
Helped me tons thanks
Glad it helped
you save my day man..thanks man💪✌️
Can u do a tutorial on how to just clone the windows os using this software
Hi, the couple of commentators haven't mentioned the USB boot stick you mention. If copying a C:\ 500gb SSD drive with Windows on it, to a 1tb SSD drive held externally in a USB 3.0 SSD holder, can this be done through Acronis clone without the USB stick please? If not, please let me know why? Thanks for detailed commentary, regards, JB
Thanks a lot , very useful
Hi, great video, thanks! Question: It is required to create and boot from the Acronis USB media? Why not just run Acronis in Windows, clone, power off, and switch the hard drives physically?
It isn't required, but its generally my preferred method. I have True Image installed on my main workstation and clone lots of different machines, so the USB method makes sense and is more flexible. It also gives you the choice of Windows RE or Linux environment for the cloning process.
does the USB need to format before installing the media builder?
I have had excellent experiences with Macrium Reflect (both in windows 10 as in Windows Vista - yes, Vista).
no please not Vista
My current drive 4TB is about to die, and I have to make a complete disk clone that includes the OS and all the software such as Office 2019 Pro Plus, Adobe Photoshop, etc. Are there any extra steps for my case or just doing the typical steps from Acronis True Image Disk Cloning process? Also, can I do the disk clone that includes the system and all software from the USB port for the new drive instead of the SATA port? After the completion of the disk clone, do all I need is to swap my new drive clone disk with the current almost dying drive?
Hi! Any suggestions for why it works until right at the very end where I’m getting “cloned disk operation failed?” I’ve tried running it numerous times and everything is fine until this point. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!
Great Video thank you! Forwarding to a client :)
Glad it was helpful!
Nice tutorial. Thank you!
I was wondering if I could change boot option in BIOS so as to boot from cloned disk while it is still in the SABRENT USB/HDD enclosure. I thought I heard on the Acronis video that it is not safe to boot with two bootable disks attached because one may become unbootable.... I haven't yet cloned any disk but I want to practice with an equal sized HDD drive before I decide whether or not to buy a SSD drive to clone to and install in my old laptop. SO far I have added 4GB RAM to the laptop but am not noticing an immense speed or performance change. Hoping that after a good disk optimization procedure and a new SSD drive it will work much better than it does now. Thanks again for a good lesson and demonstration...
I don't believe Windows will boot from a USB device unless a Windows To Go installation.
IMPORTANT NOTE for those with older PCs/Laptops. This method is useless if your PC/Laptop does NOT have a UEFI based BIOS. You do not get the option to boot from your Flash drive when using the "Shift" key whilst selecting "Restart", and even if you boot using the flash drive (by entering BIOS and making the appropriate changes), you get an error that "Bootmgr" is missing.
I recognise that voice! At least I know this info will be reliable.
Why do you set the space before than after?
Is it not better after?
Hi James. I can't choose the destination disk. It seems grey. I have done the same thing with 4 other computers with same model. What can be the problem?
OMG I had so many issues trying to do this. My laptop did not have the Boot menu because because it has some protections on the BIOS and then, when I finally figure out how to enable Legacy so I could boot from the USB, my drive was encrypted with Bitlocker...I'm disabling to see if I can finally upgrade my drive.
Awesome. thank you!
Glad it helped!
Thanks for your useful video, after doing these steps can I have an option to choose to boot either from the external drive or the internal one?
You'd need to fit the new drive internally - Windows generally won't boot from a USB drive.
pretty complicated software to use, but thanks for the vid.
To anyone having issues with cloning to crucial 2.5... get macrium instead.
I just spent 7 hours trying to get this program (developed for crucial?) to clone the hdd in my older desktop. Non stop error spamming. Recovery media wouldn't launch from cd or usb, drive would not boot. One hour after getting macrium, drive up and running without issue.
Is it still running? Or the SSD crashed after a few days? My SSD crashed after 2 days and now it is showing 1mb of total space!! I believe installing a new window is the only solution because cloning always creates problems!
@@Restless-se1xo still running. I only use that computer to run a server for a game i play. Have yet to have an issue though
Hello James: I will be cloning an HDD to a smaller SDD on my laptop. I notice that acronis recommends I install the SSD internally first. If I do otherwise and clone it externally, the SSD once the clone is completed, will not be a bootable drive. This has me confused. Can you enlighten me?
I have the same problem. Did you find the solution?
Thanks for video, my system has only 1 SSD and a single partition which has windows installed on it and I want to upgrade it to large SSD, In order to do that I have take existing SSD out and put the new one in motherboard, how do I accomplish cloning the existing one to new one. So in simple words how to make a clone of SSD which has windows in it for same system.
If I want to add an SSD to my laptop and put only Windows on there to use my HDD for everything else, what partition would I have to clone?
Nice Tutorial. I'm planning to replace my old SSD with a larger capacity SSD, does acronis work in any brand SSD?
Yes, also works on NVMe drives if you create the Windows RE mode USB stick - from memory it doesn't recognise them if you create a Linux one.
Hi I have a question Acronis True Image when I tried to back up my files I get a message ' File Paths over 260 Characters '
using Acronis backup will this be able to handle that problem I tried fixing in the windows directory but not working.
Tks very helpful
Glad it helped
I'm using Lexar SSD and usb media builder always ask linux base during destinatiin disk, should use linux media to clone my win 10?
How do you select individual partitions in manual mode?
It was very helpful,. Thanks brother
I have my main hd is 2 tr with 2 partitions 100 gb for windows and the rest to store data, on my new ssd I made also 2 partitions 130 gb and 860 gb, I was doing this procedure because I only want to clone operating system but the flash drive did not boot, instead it corrupt my main windows, what could happen
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Hi I tried to do this putting my ssd hard drive on sata then I made the bootable flash drive then shift restart and it says os damaged, after 2 reboot it got fixed, so this bootable program damaged my windows and I coul not reach the acronis menu, what could happen
Can I make a live usb drive and then use it to clone other computers?
I just chose manual and proportional and it worked that way
Thanks James - managed to reboot but have a warning at copying stage that says "operating systems will not boot from the destination disk in BIOS" Can i boot up from the USB stick again and then work in the BIOS to make the new drive the boot drive? Cheers!
Have you set the system back to the correct UEFI/CSM boot mode for the OS?
What i dont understand is i have used true images for years yet some let you clone from a 1tb for example to a 120gb ssd (as long as under 120gb has been used) but some are just a pain in the arse and just wont clone to a smaller drive? it seems hit or miss when it happens. Always when i am in a hurry ! any ideas on this?
If this is the case, you normally need to run chkdsk and repair any errors on the file system of the source drive.
when i install the windows on my new pc i could see the ssd but i could not select it so i installed windows on a 2tb hdd. how can i fix that and install windows on my ssd?
The source volume is still grayed out. Any suggestions?
I have a lenovo v530s desktop and i mount a WD SN750 black nvme ssd on motherboard m.2 ssd slot. Now how i transfer my windows10 OS on nvme ssd using this software i.e boot directly from my nvme SSD and my HDD only store media files i am trying alot but system always pick SATA HDD as boot manager. Please help me sir.
Hey man, when I restart my pc while holding shift, it does not give me the option to use a device. Any way I could fix that?
It's maybe late but I think you can do it in the BIOS (spamming f2 at restarting)
@@matteo427 thx bro, already figured it out. Appreciate u replying
The manual choice is a little bit confusing, specially when you are shrinking the partitions, but I will try.👍
You can do it!
I've tried this, but after selecting the source drive, Acronis tells me to boot from a linux-based bootable media...
Is the procedure similar then?
Hey, have you solve your problem because I face the same thing
The use a device isn't showing up for me?
I am trying to clone from larger 500GB HDD to a 240GB SSD, both are western digital product. I try using Acronis True Imager from western digital , but not success. Please help.
Used macrium reflect free edition and it worked first time
Free edition of Macrium does not allow you to perform cloning larger to smaller. You did a standard clone.
Hi. Can I use the software to clone from my computer directly to an SDD, instead of saving to a thumbdrive tben transferring to an SDD?
The thumbdrive is just used to boot the software - I clone directly HDD to SSD.
at 2:41 How did you launch Acronis True Image after booting the system
Depends on the BIOS and which key is for the Boot Menu - often it is F10.
If this works, I’ll be the happiest man alive.
Did it work and what were the HD specifications, OS etc?
Are you happy?
@@MrUbiquitous dead😂
Will it work in Linux too?
After all done, finish cloning , my new hdd cannot boot as a system, why it happen?
Hi, Thanks for your video. Please help me with a tutorial on how to physically install a ssd into a 14' Asus vivobook laptop. Thank you.
What's the full model number for the Vivobook you have?
Does this work on desktop?
Completed Lenovo from 1Tb to Crucial BX500 but now can't do it for Inspiron 15 3542. Windows 10 single Language. I made the boot usb - connected to it with shift/restart and the Dell shows some code and then sits with revolving dots and windows logo. I worked in the BIOS - set to UEFI and also disabled "Secure Boot Control" Any other suggestions would be gratefully accepted!
Create a Linux based USB stick instead and try with that.
any difference between clone and restore? can i restore to NEW SSD with backup image?
No difference, but rather relation: Clone is a backup and restore operations in one single swoop.
Hi, Thank you for the incredibly helpful video. However after following your steps and attempting to boot from my cloned SSD, windows displays an error saying that the boot drive is inaccessible. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
More information: I currently run windows on a seagate 1Tb hard drive and am cloning it onto a 500 gb Crucial m.2 NVME drive (and there is more than enough space).
Can the system definitely boot from an NVMe drive? Is the HDD set up for UEFI or CSM booting?
@@BrueComputing It suppports an NVME drive, but I am not sure about booting capabilities, where can i find this information? Also I think my HDD is set to UEFI mood but again how can i make sure
What did you finally do? I also tried to clone laptop HDD to a crucial m.2 SSD! The transfer was successful but after 2 days it crashed and now my SSD is showing only 1mb of space! I believe cloning is not a good idea, from what I have read on the internet everyone says that install a fresh windows on the SSD!
Is there a way to boot without removing the source drive? I dont feel like opening my laptop again :c
Change boot hiearchy in bios to boot from the ssd connected to the usb.
My Laptop : Lenovo ideapad 130 15lkb
hi, I bought ssd(Crucial MX500) and installed it directly into the laptop before cloning it. i used the usb to boot & everything is fine. But i want to clone the ssd from my older hdd. Can i clone by connecting the hdd to usb and leaving the ssd inside the laptop as it is. Please help me i am stuck. My elaborate explaination is . All my older files (software applications are in my old hdd drive) i bought a new ssd (didnot clone it) and installed it directly into the laptop. I used the usb to bootup into windows. Now i want to hava ll my older software back as it is. I have my older hdd . Can i clone by connecting the older hdd to usb and my ssd being in the laptop itself?
Please help
Yes, this should work just fine.
@@BrueComputing Thanks
I cant choose the serial-ata. it is there but i cant click on it.
hello james, i have one TB Hard Drive in my desktop system but not fully occupied, i want to make it clone in 500 GB SSD is it possible.
So long as there is less than around 450GB on the drive this should work fine.
It says remove the old drive when rebooting. I would like to use it as storage, with all the things still on it. Can I leave the drive in as it is?
Can do - you'll need to check you are booting from the right one.
@@BrueComputing ok thanks cool. I feel honoured getting a response directly from the uploaded lol. Will installed apps still work? I'm wonderimg if any directories would have changed
Cloning does not working for me. The first steps takes hours and hours I had to end the process and tried it again. Unfortunately same result.
After you cloned the drive, you didn't say if you restarted or shutdown your computer and removed the drive, OR continued on the desktop. Can you please make this clearer on your path please?
Connect the SSD AFTER you select boot from EFI Boot device, I encountered a conflict there was too much stuff connected to my computer. But this method does work
👍👍👍👍 thanks
No problem 👍
Hello, Just bought pcie nvme (250gb) to upgrade my lenovo laptop and I am getting an error when cloning. The error says : "Cannot complete cloning. The selected partition(s) on the source drive cannot be resized to fit a smaller drive because the source drive uses an unsupported or broken file system". Can you help me? Thank you in advance.
I am getting the same issue, I have followed his video, step by step. But when I run Acronis from USB, I get that message
@@theperryshow3652 same here. Solution please
Hmmm I think Macrium Reflect seems to be more user friendly, especially the partition adjusting screen.
I have a message "windows failed to start...recent hardware... change may be the cause" "The boot configuration data is missing or contains errors" any help will gratefully be accepted!
I keep getting unable to lock the disk boot your computer from a Linux based bookable media then try again.
Often if you just close that box and then hit "Next" again it'll progress fine without issue.
If no luck then recreate the bootable media and use Advanced to make a Linux one.
Hello sir, recently i buy a 500gb ssd. My old 120gb ssd mbr partition type. I want to clone it to new 500gb ssd and make 2 more partition to new ssd but after cloning windows doent allow me to partition my new ssd. What is the problem.
maybe you have recovery partition between the unallocated space.
use windows diskpart.exe to check for the volume. Delete it then you can extend the volume after that
@@dhanniekristanto thank u sir for the reply. Last que. i want to ask you. Is staying on mbr is fine or i have to move into gpt partition disk type.
Free version don’t support SSD cloning anymore. I tried and it showed me to purchase full options.
Hello good day.. i have a question. i have an HP EliteDesk mini computer, & i want to clone the SSD drive that is in it to a bigger completely unused (full memory) NVme M.2 SSD. i Have an older version of Acronis True Image (2017), & i want to know would that handle the job, or should i update it to 2020. Also at the end of this video where you explained the resizing situation. My NEW NVme M.2 SSD is 1TB & i want to use ALL of the memory on the computer (the older SSD was only 256 GB or something in that range). if i choose "Proportional" in the Clone Disk Wizard, will it give me all the usable memory space in the 1TB NVme drive, or do i need to do something extra?
very huge time take kindly tell me which time take to complete
task this process
Can vary massively depending on the speed of your drives and how much data there is to copy.
Can someone help me? When I choose source disk, message pop up shows that it cannot locked my c drive. I don't know what to do
Use the advanced options and create a Linux version rather than Windows 10.
Boot from other devices is not showing.
Pls help can't clone my 1tb hdd to a 256gb ssd because I dont license to thats apps, pls help me 😭
well it doesn't work for me .. Acronis says the disk is lock and to use Linux... their software is getting progressively worse... I was a long time user of the earlier versions.. but it takes a ridiculously long time to make backups which are bigger than the source data !!! whats up with that!
If you get that message I've found often you can just hit Next again and it'll continue.
If not then use a Linux version of the bootable media instead.
dari hadrisk ke image file bisa bang?
Very difficult to operate it
Cloning from Hard Drive to a smaller SSD with Acronis True Image
Why not just use clone disk from the tools menu?
he took a copy of media builder from a different system, then used it on the coouter needing the harddrive copy
*Why is it that when I am cloning a 200 GB to a 1TB, the one TB shrinks to 200GB ??*
You've presumably opted to clone "As Is" - which will maintain partition sizes.
If you choose proportional it will enlarge them to will the drive.
@@BrueComputing Thank you very much for a prompt response. I appreciate it.
@@BrueComputing Another question, please.? If I buy a new computer, how do I clone from old to new??
@@KARIM_HAMZA I wouldn't recommend doing this - Windows may not boot on the new system due to the hardware differences.
@@BrueComputing Sorry it's me again: What was the purpose of choosing *Rescue Media Builder* if we could choose *Clone Disk* straight away?
ok so why wasn't the clone option that was right next to the rescue section used? This is what I hate about vids like this , they don't explain why they did what they did.
From memory, because it wouldn't let you clone from a larger hard drive to a lower capacity SSD on the version that was available when I recorded the video.
Also having it on a USB stick gives more flexibility in that you can use it on other computers which may not be running Windows, etc.
@@BrueComputing Ahhhh Thank you I was all worried I was going to mess something up.
After 3 complete days of banging my head to get my new NVME crucial 500GB P2 SSD work on my Asus ROH FX laptop... This method worked for me.... I first tried to clone directly from my 1TB HDD to 500GB SSD using Acronis... After 3 attempts it was successful, but after changing boot order to SSD... Faced Black screen error in my Windows 10... Then tried your way of making use of rescue media, with simple option... But face "Lock error with drive.. use Linux PE".... Tried Linux PE rescue media type ... It still didn't work as Linux PE was not able to find my M2 NVMe SSD... Hence had to again go with Simple PE rescue... And faced "Lock drive"... Shut down the system pressing Shift key at the same time.... again faced "Unable to Lock error"...At that moment I clicked "ok" in that error, went to selecting "source disk" again and again... And in third try it finally locked... And finally the job was completed... Finally a relief !! Many thanks @Brue Computing
Bit of a mission but glad it helped!
Can I do this using a Dock?
Yes. You can clone to a drive in a USB caddy no problem.
@@BrueComputing Ok I have one more question, Im tryna to copy a 128gb to a 1td ssd will i still have the remaining space to use?
@@BrueComputing thank you for your help
do we really need to remove HDD after cloning to boot from SDD? if we dont remove it i will not be able to boot from SDD ha?
The SSD will be the bootable device - so you replace the HDD with it.
If you want to keep the HDD for storage then check the SSD is all working correctly, then wipe the hard drive.
@@BrueComputing in my case even after cloning it boots only frm HDD coz my SSD is not displayed in Bios to choose it.. dono why but cloned properly.. SSD is shown in disk management and even in my computer with data
What type of SSD is it?
@@BrueComputing Kingston NV1 M.2 Nvme SSD SNVS500G
@@aswinsampath8209 I read somewhere, remove the HDD and keep only SSD, now this time it will be forced to detect the SSD. Once this is done, then you can insert the HDD again, so you can view two bootable option. Choose SSD as primary boot device.
Can game be clone?
All data should clean across just fine.
@@BrueComputing uhhmm sorry..i couldn't understand as english not my first lunguage...can you explain in a simple way?