I've always done this process manually but I got a new SSD for Christmas after some drinks.. decided I was feeling too litty and would try a cloning program. This worked flawlessly and took little effort. Thank you for your concise instructions and general swag.
I choose the automatically change and reboot option and it worked flawlessly. The new SSD was wired in but not partitioned. Used your steps. Rebooted PC. Worked fine, the new drive showed up as C, the old one as D. Shut down, removed the old one. Restarted. Worked like a charm. Shutdown and reconnected my other internal SSD as I only had 2 cables to connect the data and everything worked perfectly. Great tutorial.
I didn't, and I searched all the time for free methods, also asked AI. Nothing is free anymore (even if it always says so). But now finally I clicked on the right suggestion.
its from your phone. remember, youtube is also google. so, google listens everything you say from your phone mic. from that, it collects any data that they could use for ads or etc.
Ive used this software before and its the easiest software for migration. Went from a 256gb gen 3 to a 1 TB gen 4 SSD, both were already inside my PC in separate NVME slots.
Hands down the best source/video to explain the OS migration process in an easy straight forward way without much hassle! and I have searched a lot and other sources/videos are very confusing! Thanks man.
I have been struggling with this process recently but this program is the first I’ve used that is actually free and simple to use. Thank you for the video, it worked perfectly upgrading my SSD to a larger one 👍
To anyone who needs to migrate windows into the new SSD, easily, fast and for free just follow this guide, the best among all of them! Thank you so much
I have been watching your channel for years and years because I have always loved fiddling with computers. As I've gotten older my computers have gotten more and more expensive, so I always check your channel first before I make any decisions, so thank you for your content.
I download the Acronis cloning tool from the WD site. If it doesn't find a WD drive in the system then plug in a Sandisk USB stick to keep it happy. It's ridiculous that Microsoft don't have a tool to do this.
Omg thanks mann this video helpsss! I been using a lot of clonning tools and all of them ddint work. I almost gave up and wanted to go to computer shop instead but i give this video one last try and it works!! Thanks mateee.
Thanks for the video Brian. I have used Acronis to upgrade several computers from old mechanical drives to new SSDs. They are always amazed at the speed increase. I use the Acronis software to do daily backups as well. Their tech support is excellent too, I would add.
@@Britec09 Brian, I would not say that it has become bloated. They have added additional features such as antivirus / anti-malware. These added features are optional when Acronis is initially installed. Even the ransomware protection can be toggled off. I only use Windows Security with the Premium Malwarebytes so I elected not to install the additional programs. It's still one of the best backup solutions available.
Good video as usual and timely. Wanted to save my 2010 laptop, which still runs good. I am going to guess, the operations are the same for non-OS drives' cloning. Off the topic, have you had a chance to make a video for Windows 11, similar to your "Things you need to disable in Windows 10 right now"? I liked the one stop shop explanation and has helped all my Win 10 pcs run effectively and efficiently.
@@Britec09Great Concise video for Disk Genius! My two questions are, if you have a 64bit system, should you obviously look for the 64bit disk genius?! & 2nd should 1 always expand the cloned "bigger" drive to the full volume or width for best migration?
Just recently discovered and subscribed. You sir are a wealth of useful information and I have recommended your website/channel to many friends. Thank you!
Hey Brian, very usefull video, just had some questions. So, firstly, at 4:36 you extended the "system partition size" from 63.1 GB to the maximum size of the target disk. Why did you do this? I don't understand the point of extending the amount that will be clonded beyond the size of the source disk, since the amount that can be cloned can only go as high as the source disk. Is this something that is necessary when cloning the drive? Second, after cloning the drive and replacing it (with the target drive that was just cloned onto) for an upgrade, is it necessary to go into my system BIOS and change the computer boot sequence, or will the system automatically boot the correct drive (Have the correct boot order/sequence) since it's in the same slot? Thanks!
Because if you do, you'll have the whole new drive's space as your OS drive. If not, you'll need to create a new partition with the remaining empty space and use that as another logical drive.
@@kw0064 Ok, so it is necessary to extend the system partition size of the target disk, but what about my other question? Is it necessary to change the computer boot sequence in the system BIOS when replacing the cloned drive?
I had the exact same question and I don’t believe it was very well explained. So if I’m getting a new m.2 drive and I’m also putting in a sata. I wanna move windows to the sata so I can upgrade my m.2 why would I wanna use the full 1TB for windows ? I’m not getting that lol
@@Cyro2457 It's been a while, I'm surprised people are still seeing my comment but I have an answer. The reason you want to extend the cloned "system partition size" to the maximum size of the target disk, is because usually people will have their windows' software on the same partition as a whole bunch of other stuff. I, for example, have a 2 TB NVME ssd that has one single giant 2 TB storage partition, with somethin' like 50 gb or so taken up by the windows software. You absolutely don't need to partition the entire drive to a windows partition, but if you only allocate the minimum amount required to store what is on the drive you won't have any more space on that partition to store anything else. In other words, you either partition the entire drive all at once to create one single partition that can store your windows stuff and everything else you want on it. Or, you can partition the minimum amount, which will store everything properly, but you will need to create another partition immediately after for future storage use. The single partition is just how things are most commonly organized on Windows, since most people want to limit the amount of drive letters/separate drives they have to comb through when looking at their stuff. It technically is kinda explained in the video, but it could be done better and I hope this helps. Side note: If you're wondering about if you need to change anything in the computer boot sequence if you're replacing a cloned drive, don't worry about it, as you don't have to change anything like that if all you're doing is replacing a drive in the same slot, since your computer just boots based on the slot order or something. I don't really know how it works, I just know you only need to change the computer boot sequence if your boot drive is in a different slot from before.
@@francoisleveille409 never had an issue with chinese ssds, not nearly as risky as installing pirated software or poking the wrong e-mails or websites
@@kaileabarca7868 whoa, this is exactly what im trying to ask, after finished the process, can i delete the all files from migrated ssd. I think you didnt pick some option in migration process?
I did get Disk Genius with a view to doing exactly what the video suggests. Then, all the hoo ha around 24H2 piled in so I went the custom .iso route instead. Cloning would have allowed me to keep my existing Windows license (One advantage of a Microsoft account, which I had when I switched my email account from Hotmail to Outlook.), but hey, it is what it is and one way or another I'll have Windows the way I want it when I eventually build my new PC.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VID I don't know why, but cloning via Macrium give me a bluescreen error. Hell I even tried to install Windows 11 fresh directly on my new SSD through Rufus, some important drivers were missing. Did the same via thumb drive, encountered the same issue where important drivers were still missing. Spent half a day trying to get it to work and your video worked wonders on first try! Once again thank you so much for uploading this 🙏
A common use case is to migrate from a larger HDD to a smaller SSD. For example, your Mom's computer takes forever to boot up and it runs slow. Task Manager shows the disk process at 100%. It has a 2TB HDD but is only 10% full. You buy a 500GB SSD drive for $35 and migrate the old disk to it. Now the computer runs faster and she can access emails on AOL.
Thanks for this clear video! One question remains though: in my case, my copy of the original boot drive is called F:. As far as I understand, when redirecting my computer to boot from that F: drive will change it's name into C: and the original C-drive into F:? The video was not very clear on that imo. Thanks in advance for the answer!
Hi Brian, Thank you so much for the video. It works perfectly for me. I just want to ask, so after everything has completed and the laptop boot perfectly using the new SSD, I could format the old SSD right?
Thanks, worked perfectly! I was a bit confused when the new drive wasn't available for boot in BIOS, turns out my motherboard has separate boot order settings for UEFI hard drives and I had to go there to choose the proper drive.
0:51 is it possible to clone os from older ssd(2.5inch) to secondary nvme m.2 without enclosure ,just via that cable...that way we could use win 8 and win 11 on one computer,laptop..?
Nice video. Just be aware that it will take about 32 hours to migrate a 2TB drive. I am 21 hours in, 11 hours to go. It feels like flying across continents!
Perfect timing on this video doing this now. Question for you, I'm migrating from a 500GB SSD to a 2TB M.2 SSD, I'd like to still use that SSD for some additional storage afterwards. how would I go about wiping that drive?
Once you've moved over to the new M.2 SSD, let the system run for a few days to make sure that all is good and you really don't need to go back to the old SSD. This may be overkill, but safe is better than sorry. Then using Disk Management you can repartition and reformat the old SSD how you like. Be very careful that you are working on the right disk as there is essentially no going back from a repartition/reformat. Lost data is a bad feeling.
Diskgenius makes incremental backups, in case of problems with your DAW, you restore everything from the backup. Certainly there are other software that do incremental backups, but Diskgenius is easy to use
Upgraded from a 250Gb to 1T SSD, I can testify that it works. Hell, I even recovered the tabs I had open in my browser prior of performing the migration. 😁
@@Creeper50DJ Yes. Put the replacement SSD on a external rack, perform the migration, replace the old SSD with the new one and boot. When the boot from the new SSD was successful and all was ok (like I said, I even open the browser with the tabs intact), I've format the old SSD and now it serves as external storage.
@@ragnos28 yeah I went home on my break from work and the hot migrations wasn’t able to get a snapshot but I threw it in Windows PE and it was migrating fine when I left home. I’ll be back soon enough to see if it was successful
I assume that this procedure would work in exactly the same way if the target disk is a large capacity internal 3.5" SATA hard drive, e.g. WD, Barracuda, or similar?
So when all the migration has been done and your software is on the new ssd do I need to re-enter my passwords for example steam or games? Or does it just migrate an all is done? I built my PC which is the easy part for me but when it comes to software I’m a nervous wreck
Thank you for your video. I may well have not understood one step: You showed us that on this occasion you were not allowing DG to change the bootable disc. However after your reboot when you went into Disk Manager you showed it had already switched to a different bootable drive. So how did you make the cloned drive the bootable drive? I know there is the option in DG to automatically do this but in your example you didn't select that option. Thanks.
Thanks Brian this is something that I have been thinking of for some time now - cloning my 500GB PCIe express to a new 1TB PCIe express drive, and in the last I have used Macrium and AOMEI for doing this and frankly Macrium has never ever worked properly for me, and AOMEI has always been very "touchy" to use. Now I am assuming that I can clone to an external drive enclosure of course because the machine I am on is a one drive slot laptop? But anyway this software is the ducks guts by the looks of it and thanks again for a great tutorial as it is so easy to follow and by the looks of it to use this method😃😃👍👍👍👍
Is it possible to have a separate drive just for video editing im wondering if this would reduce computer resources and keep a 2tb drive for the rest of the computer if so could or have you done a video thanks
groovy. just got a larger drive for windows and side programs. 500g to 1 TB, and then moving my games from that 1Tb to a 2Tb. Reformat the 1TB to drop my cloned windows 500g to it. use the 500g....somewhere else...lol Glad i saw this video. thanks
So you have both old and new ssd in the pc. Once you transfer windows you power down and then swap the new one in the old one spot and vise versa. Then boot and your new ssd should boot windows?
Hi Brian, Thanks for the video. I just wanted to ask whether using Minitool Partition Wizard is still okay ?? I followed your video on that (which was published 1 year ago) and, after starting the OS cloning/copying process, I later found this video which is quite recent comparably. So, just wanted to confirm with you once.
Tried to buy a new SSD because my current one for my system is at 66% life, but the new one doesn't show up in the boot options after I used Hasleo Disk Clone to clone windows. The SSD is an option for priority override, but not listed in normal boot options
So just to clarify all my data and apps, pictures, videos, doc, all that stuff, and including the os should copy over to the new drive and when its done just switch the old one out for a new one? Right? I wanna make extra sure
This may be a dumb question, but when you choose the Target Drive; why do you want want the Target Drive to use the whole drive instead of leaving the extra space you had? Sorry if I'm not explaining myself well.
Thanks for this video I have been trying to clone my 1 TB SSD to another 1TB SSD for backup. I always get an error massage after several hours - a device that was specified does not exist. Both drives have no bad sectors. Should I migrate to a bigger SSD?
having both drives plugged in while rebooting? wont that confuse it? in the XP days if you did that on 1st reboot, then you wont be able to separate those drive if you wanted your windows to work. I always unplug the old drive on 1st reboot, let the new drive familiarize its new body before plugging the old drive back in.
There used to be a formula, using cmd line, to copy one drive to another. I don't know why they put a stop to this. It was easy and you didn't need to install any software.
Used to use Norton Ghost from DOS many years back. Simple and fast. Now using Windows Image to backup but so far have not verified its effectiveness with real restore/migration.
After the cloning process (I used Trial version of Macrium reflect), how do I go ahead and change the boot source? Struggling to find a good video on this!
I stopped the process after about a minute because I didn't see target drive having the same files/sectors as the disk to be copied. Now I have an exclamation mark on my new drive and I keep getting errors and I can't proceed. I've tried to reformat the new drive and it keeps failing. Any help would be appreciated.
I've not been a daily Windows user for years now so be careful, but I'd guess that you need to delete the partitions on the new drive using Disk Management. This should get you back to a blank drive from where you can try again. If that doesn't work, you may need to create a new partition table (GPT for preference) after deleting stray partitions.
@@dingokidneys Under Disk Management and diskpart I reset the new SSD, but I need to learn the disk genius program better because that is where I keep running into problems. I really just didn't know enough to attempt this to begin with. Thanks for the help dingokidneys.
Are the games and everything you have on your previous hard drive cloned to the new one? Will everything in the new hard drive have the same files and games as the old one?
I recently used Rescuezilla to move a Windows install from a nasty slow 1TB HDD to a 128GB partition on a 240GB SSD. It took a bit of wrangling, preshrinking and moving the Windows partitions around on the source drive, then backing up to an external hard drive, installing the SSD and recovering the Windows install from the external HDD backup image. It was tedious and clumsy but it all worked out well. It was essentially a dry run for potentially moving my aged brother's Windows install to new hardware should that be necessary. As it turned out, I swapped him over to Linux Mint and he's happy as a pig in mud.
So, I got a question. I had an ssd, in my laptop. I screwed something up, and the computer would no longer boot into Windows. The drive itself, is fine. If I were to clone it, to a different drive, would it still not boot into Windows? Thanks.
i click on the os migration then a screen pops up saying before starting you can set a partition size on target disk but it doesnt allow me to do anything? the start button is greyed out.
When I press OS migration it’s only giving me the option to select my local disk C (500gb) but I want to move it to my local disk D (1TB). Did I miss something or what
dual boot with windows and linux causes issues when using software cloning for some reason- but with a disk duplicator device, i can duplicate a drive and it is exact copy and boots just fine- using software cloning htough means having to fix boot issues afterwards if using linux grub- gotta run bootfix, also have to fix windows as i get a "couldn't load missing required file file= \windows\system32\winload.exe" and error "error code 0x000000e"- so gotta fix that
I've always done this process manually but I got a new SSD for Christmas after some drinks.. decided I was feeling too litty and would try a cloning program. This worked flawlessly and took little effort. Thank you for your concise instructions and general swag.
I choose the automatically change and reboot option and it worked flawlessly. The new SSD was wired in but not partitioned. Used your steps. Rebooted PC. Worked fine, the new drive showed up as C, the old one as D. Shut down, removed the old one. Restarted. Worked like a charm. Shutdown and reconnected my other internal SSD as I only had 2 cables to connect the data and everything worked perfectly. Great tutorial.
so, do you deleted the all files in old ssd?
Crazy how I just got a new NVMe drive for my OS and immediately got this video recommended.
Shhh they are always watchin
if you think that is funny go on a car site for a couple of days and the you get car ads
They always will
I didn't, and I searched all the time for free methods, also asked AI. Nothing is free anymore (even if it always says so). But now finally I clicked on the right suggestion.
its from your phone. remember, youtube is also google. so, google listens everything you say from your phone mic. from that, it collects any data that they could use for ads or etc.
Finally, a video about this topic that wasn't released in the Stone Age.
Liked and subscribed 🙏
Literally 😭
Ive used this software before and its the easiest software for migration. Went from a 256gb gen 3 to a 1 TB gen 4 SSD, both were already inside my PC in separate NVME slots.
Yeah, works a treat
Yeah but this comes from China. Is it hidden malware ?
Keep removing my comment and ... destroying your reputation.
@@francoisleveille409?
Thank you so much, this was the message I was exactly looking for.
Thanks for the help! The process went smooth without any issues. Free, direct, no more information than needed!
Hands down the best source/video to explain the OS migration process in an easy straight forward way without much hassle! and I have searched a lot and other sources/videos are very confusing! Thanks man.
I have been struggling with this process recently but this program is the first I’ve used that is actually free and simple to use. Thank you for the video, it worked perfectly upgrading my SSD to a larger one 👍
To anyone who needs to migrate windows into the new SSD, easily, fast and for free just follow this guide, the best among all of them! Thank you so much
Excellent! Very clear and simple. Thanks, Brian!
Glad it was helpful!
I have been watching your channel for years and years because I have always loved fiddling with computers. As I've gotten older my computers have gotten more and more expensive, so I always check your channel first before I make any decisions, so thank you for your content.
Awesome! I tried other videos but at the end I had to pay every time for the operation . Thanks a lot!
Omg thank you this is the video ive been looking for. All other tutorials sounds to complicated this the first the a bot like me understands cheers
My favorite way to backup my PC. If something catastrophic happens to your computer all you have to do is replace the drive.
Absolutely! same here.
I download the Acronis cloning tool from the WD site. If it doesn't find a WD drive in the system then plug in a Sandisk USB stick to keep it happy. It's ridiculous that Microsoft don't have a tool to do this.
Cheers bri, this came at the perfect time. 🎉
You're welcome
Omg thanks mann this video helpsss! I been using a lot of clonning tools and all of them ddint work. I almost gave up and wanted to go to computer shop instead but i give this video one last try and it works!! Thanks mateee.
hey man thank you soooooooooo much. thou where the only one that could help over the hundreds of videos that i saw.. ur the best
Awesome Brian. This is what I've been looking for.
Thanks for the video Brian. I have used Acronis to upgrade several computers from old mechanical drives to new SSDs. They are always amazed at the speed increase. I use the Acronis software to do daily backups as well. Their tech support is excellent too, I would add.
Acronis become bloated
@@Britec09 Brian, I would not say that it has become bloated. They have added additional features such as antivirus / anti-malware. These added features are optional when Acronis is initially installed. Even the ransomware protection can be toggled off. I only use Windows Security with the Premium Malwarebytes so I elected not to install the additional programs. It's still one of the best backup solutions available.
Good video as usual and timely. Wanted to save my 2010 laptop, which still runs good. I am going to guess, the operations are the same for non-OS drives' cloning.
Off the topic, have you had a chance to make a video for Windows 11, similar to your "Things you need to disable in Windows 10 right now"? I liked the one stop shop explanation and has helped all my Win 10 pcs run effectively and efficiently.
I make a video for you
@@Britec09Great Concise video for Disk Genius! My two questions are, if you have a 64bit system, should you obviously look for the 64bit disk genius?! & 2nd should 1 always expand the cloned "bigger" drive to the full volume or width for best migration?
Just recently discovered and subscribed. You sir are a wealth of useful information and I have recommended your website/channel to many friends. Thank you!
Out of all the videos I seen this is the best I watched everyone else taxing
Hey Brian, very usefull video, just had some questions.
So, firstly, at 4:36 you extended the "system partition size" from 63.1 GB to the maximum size of the target disk. Why did you do this? I don't understand the point of extending the amount that will be clonded beyond the size of the source disk, since the amount that can be cloned can only go as high as the source disk. Is this something that is necessary when cloning the drive?
Second, after cloning the drive and replacing it (with the target drive that was just cloned onto) for an upgrade, is it necessary to go into my system BIOS and change the computer boot sequence, or will the system automatically boot the correct drive (Have the correct boot order/sequence) since it's in the same slot?
Thanks!
Because if you do, you'll have the whole new drive's space as your OS drive. If not, you'll need to create a new partition with the remaining empty space and use that as another logical drive.
@@kw0064 Ok, so it is necessary to extend the system partition size of the target disk, but what about my other question? Is it necessary to change the computer boot sequence in the system BIOS when replacing the cloned drive?
@@ragus3321That's already been explained clearly in the video.
I had the exact same question and I don’t believe it was very well explained. So if I’m getting a new m.2 drive and I’m also putting in a sata. I wanna move windows to the sata so I can upgrade my m.2 why would I wanna use the full 1TB for windows ? I’m not getting that lol
@@Cyro2457 It's been a while, I'm surprised people are still seeing my comment but I have an answer. The reason you want to extend the cloned "system partition size" to the maximum size of the target disk, is because usually people will have their windows' software on the same partition as a whole bunch of other stuff. I, for example, have a 2 TB NVME ssd that has one single giant 2 TB storage partition, with somethin' like 50 gb or so taken up by the windows software. You absolutely don't need to partition the entire drive to a windows partition, but if you only allocate the minimum amount required to store what is on the drive you won't have any more space on that partition to store anything else.
In other words, you either partition the entire drive all at once to create one single partition that can store your windows stuff and everything else you want on it.
Or, you can partition the minimum amount, which will store everything properly, but you will need to create another partition immediately after for future storage use.
The single partition is just how things are most commonly organized on Windows, since most people want to limit the amount of drive letters/separate drives they have to comb through when looking at their stuff. It technically is kinda explained in the video, but it could be done better and I hope this helps.
Side note: If you're wondering about if you need to change anything in the computer boot sequence if you're replacing a cloned drive, don't worry about it, as you don't have to change anything like that if all you're doing is replacing a drive in the same slot, since your computer just boots based on the slot order or something. I don't really know how it works, I just know you only need to change the computer boot sequence if your boot drive is in a different slot from before.
Nice so I can change the SSD with a bigger one without the need to reinstall everything.
Yes, that is correct
Yeah but this was made in China. Is there malware hidden in this software ?
@@francoisleveille409 who cares it works
@@armyspy9797 You're going to care if you have a business and all your creations are stolen or erased.
@@francoisleveille409 never had an issue with chinese ssds, not nearly as risky as installing pirated software or poking the wrong e-mails or websites
I've been following your advices for years. Truly Awesome, thank you ☺.
Thank you for this video! I already installed and clone everything in my new SSD!
Im having issue now. I deleted everything where I cloned. And now I can’t open my pc with an error. I need help
@@kaileabarca7868 whoa, this is exactly what im trying to ask, after finished the process, can i delete the all files from migrated ssd. I think you didnt pick some option in migration process?
Another very useful video. Thank you Brian!
My pleasure!
Works perfectly.. I was struggling for solutions.. thanks mate 😊
Welcome
I did get Disk Genius with a view to doing exactly what the video suggests. Then, all the hoo ha around 24H2 piled in so I went the custom .iso route instead. Cloning would have allowed me to keep my existing Windows license (One advantage of a Microsoft account, which I had when I switched my email account from Hotmail to Outlook.), but hey, it is what it is and one way or another I'll have Windows the way I want it when I eventually build my new PC.
Thanks for sharing
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VID
I don't know why, but cloning via Macrium give me a bluescreen error.
Hell I even tried to install Windows 11 fresh directly on my new SSD through Rufus, some important drivers were missing. Did the same via thumb drive, encountered the same issue where important drivers were still missing.
Spent half a day trying to get it to work and your video worked wonders on first try! Once again thank you so much for uploading this 🙏
This is exactly what i needed! Thankyou. so much! 🙏👏🔥
First time I hear about this tool like and subscribed immediately
Btw: you don’t need a bigger drive, just a drive that can fit everything from your old one.
really came in clutch thanks for the video!!!!
Why do you want to extend the bar to use the whole drive if the source disk doesn't take up the entire target disk space? 4:38
Great tool. Thanks Brian for video. 🙂
You are very welcome
A common use case is to migrate from a larger HDD to a smaller SSD. For example, your Mom's computer takes forever to boot up and it runs slow. Task Manager shows the disk process at 100%. It has a 2TB HDD but is only 10% full. You buy a 500GB SSD drive for $35 and migrate the old disk to it. Now the computer runs faster and she can access emails on AOL.
Thank you........I miss free Macrium and this might help.
You're welcome
Just a note, You can still use the last free Macrium Reflect version. It works perfectly fine.
Thanks for this clear video! One question remains though: in my case, my copy of the original boot drive is called F:. As far as I understand, when redirecting my computer to boot from that F: drive will change it's name into C: and the original C-drive into F:? The video was not very clear on that imo. Thanks in advance for the answer!
Thank you.
Thanks for the donation 👍🍺
Hi Brian,
Thank you so much for the video. It works perfectly for me. I just want to ask, so after everything has completed and the laptop boot perfectly using the new SSD, I could format the old SSD right?
Thanks for the video. Worked perfectly as intended. Can the removed NVMe ssd be used as a data storage(like a pen drive) using the usb enclosure?
Thanks so useful 😄
You're welcome 😊
Thanks, worked perfectly! I was a bit confused when the new drive wasn't available for boot in BIOS, turns out my motherboard has separate boot order settings for UEFI hard drives and I had to go there to choose the proper drive.
Super clear explanation. Free tools. Thank you for this awesome video 🎉🎉.
Excellent! Work easy and free, thankyou!👏🙏
0:51 is it possible to clone os from older ssd(2.5inch) to secondary nvme m.2 without enclosure ,just via that cable...that way we could use win 8 and win 11 on one computer,laptop..?
should work, one boot at the time on bios
Thank you so much for this video! Made the process seamless. Much appreciated.
AOMEI user here, downloaded DiskGenius *Thanx Britec*
Thanks
Thanks for the donation 👍🍺
Nice video. Just be aware that it will take about 32 hours to migrate a 2TB drive. I am 21 hours in, 11 hours to go. It feels like flying across continents!
You migrating for hard drive?
Perfect timing on this video doing this now. Question for you, I'm migrating from a 500GB SSD to a 2TB M.2 SSD, I'd like to still use that SSD for some additional storage afterwards. how would I go about wiping that drive?
Just wipe your old drive once cloned and working
Once you've moved over to the new M.2 SSD, let the system run for a few days to make sure that all is good and you really don't need to go back to the old SSD. This may be overkill, but safe is better than sorry.
Then using Disk Management you can repartition and reformat the old SSD how you like. Be very careful that you are working on the right disk as there is essentially no going back from a repartition/reformat. Lost data is a bad feeling.
I have a windows computer DAW, if I would keep cloning it as a back up would you recommend this software or some other one?
Diskgenius makes incremental backups, in case of problems with your DAW, you restore everything from the backup.
Certainly there are other software that do incremental backups, but Diskgenius is easy to use
Upgraded from a 250Gb to 1T SSD, I can testify that it works.
Hell, I even recovered the tabs I had open in my browser prior of performing the migration. 😁
You did Hot migrate?
@@Creeper50DJ Yes. Put the replacement SSD on a external rack, perform the migration, replace the old SSD with the new one and boot. When the boot from the new SSD was successful and all was ok (like I said, I even open the browser with the tabs intact), I've format the old SSD and now it serves as external storage.
@@ragnos28 yeah I went home on my break from work and the hot migrations wasn’t able to get a snapshot but I threw it in Windows PE and it was migrating fine when I left home. I’ll be back soon enough to see if it was successful
I assume that this procedure would work in exactly the same way if the target disk is a large capacity internal 3.5" SATA hard drive, e.g. WD, Barracuda, or similar?
It will work just the same, only slower.
@@dingokidneys Great!
So when all the migration has been done and your software is on the new ssd do I need to re-enter my passwords for example steam or games? Or does it just migrate an all is done? I built my PC which is the easy part for me but when it comes to software I’m a nervous wreck
Nice, simple and easy guide, thank you! Liked & Subscribed
Thank you for your video. I may well have not understood one step: You showed us that on this occasion you were not allowing DG to change the bootable disc. However after your reboot when you went into Disk Manager you showed it had already switched to a different bootable drive. So how did you make the cloned drive the bootable drive? I know there is the option in DG to automatically do this but in your example you didn't select that option. Thanks.
Thank you Mate, you just saved me some money and time, Greatly appericated
have a question, is the drive have to be bigger than the previous one or still possible as long as the drive enough space?
Thanks Brian this is something that I have been thinking of for some time now - cloning my 500GB PCIe express to a new 1TB PCIe express drive, and in the last I have used Macrium and AOMEI for doing this and frankly Macrium has never ever worked properly for me, and AOMEI has always been very "touchy" to use. Now I am assuming that I can clone to an external drive enclosure of course because the machine I am on is a one drive slot laptop? But anyway this software is the ducks guts by the looks of it and thanks again for a great tutorial as it is so easy to follow and by the looks of it to use this method😃😃👍👍👍👍
Let me know how you get on
@@Britec09 Ok will do mate but it will jot be for a while yet though.
Is it possible to have a separate drive just for video editing im wondering if this would reduce computer resources and keep a 2tb drive for the rest of the computer if so could or have you done a video thanks
groovy. just got a larger drive for windows and side programs. 500g to 1 TB, and then moving my games from that 1Tb to a 2Tb. Reformat the 1TB to drop my cloned windows 500g to it. use the 500g....somewhere else...lol
Glad i saw this video. thanks
So you have both old and new ssd in the pc. Once you transfer windows you power down and then swap the new one in the old one spot and vise versa. Then boot and your new ssd should boot windows?
Hi Brian, Thanks for the video. I just wanted to ask whether using Minitool Partition Wizard is still okay ?? I followed your video on that (which was published 1 year ago) and, after starting the OS cloning/copying process, I later found this video which is quite recent comparably. So, just wanted to confirm with you once.
THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!!! It freaking works 😎
THANK YOU SO MUCH IVE BEEN STRUGGLING FOR 2 days straigh
Thanks for the help brother man!
I prefer EaseUS Disk Copy. It takes less steps, and was worth the price!
Tried to buy a new SSD because my current one for my system is at 66% life, but the new one doesn't show up in the boot options after I used Hasleo Disk Clone to clone windows.
The SSD is an option for priority override, but not listed in normal boot options
does the os migration feature moves everything including documents or save files in other partition to new drives too? asking to be sure.
Thank you! I need to do this to my daily driver.
just a question does this work if you just want to transfer data from a hdd to ssd?
I don't know if you still need the answer to this question but yes. I just did it myself.
So just to clarify all my data and apps, pictures, videos, doc, all that stuff, and including the os should copy over to the new drive and when its done just switch the old one out for a new one? Right?
I wanna make extra sure
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Thanks Brian that was very helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
This may be a dumb question, but when you choose the Target Drive; why do you want want the Target Drive to use the whole drive instead of leaving the extra space you had? Sorry if I'm not explaining myself well.
Thanks for this video
I have been trying to clone my 1 TB SSD to another 1TB SSD for backup. I always get an error massage after several hours - a device that was specified does not exist. Both drives have no bad sectors. Should I migrate to a bigger SSD?
having both drives plugged in while rebooting? wont that confuse it? in the XP days if you did that on 1st reboot, then you wont be able to separate those drive if you wanted your windows to work. I always unplug the old drive on 1st reboot, let the new drive familiarize its new body before plugging the old drive back in.
There used to be a formula, using cmd line, to copy one drive to another. I don't know why they put a stop to this. It was easy and you didn't need to install any software.
Used to use Norton Ghost from DOS many years back. Simple and fast. Now using Windows Image to backup but so far have not verified its effectiveness with real restore/migration.
same if source has 2 partitions ?
it will clone it
Thanks
It really worked for me
i have used this software works as it should nice one😁
Great 👍
After the cloning process (I used Trial version of Macrium reflect), how do I go ahead and change the boot source? Struggling to find a good video on this!
can I delete all the data from the previous drive and use it as storage?
yeah
Thank You Brian!
I stopped the process after about a minute because I didn't see target drive having the same files/sectors as the disk to be copied. Now I have an exclamation mark on my new drive and I keep getting errors and I can't proceed. I've tried to reformat the new drive and it keeps failing. Any help would be appreciated.
I've not been a daily Windows user for years now so be careful, but I'd guess that you need to delete the partitions on the new drive using Disk Management. This should get you back to a blank drive from where you can try again. If that doesn't work, you may need to create a new partition table (GPT for preference) after deleting stray partitions.
@@dingokidneys Under Disk Management and diskpart I reset the new SSD, but I need to learn the disk genius program better because that is where I keep running into problems. I really just didn't know enough to attempt this to begin with. Thanks for the help dingokidneys.
Are the games and everything you have on your previous hard drive cloned to the new one? Will everything in the new hard drive have the same files and games as the old one?
I use Rescuezilla, a live distro Linux.
I recently used Rescuezilla to move a Windows install from a nasty slow 1TB HDD to a 128GB partition on a 240GB SSD. It took a bit of wrangling, preshrinking and moving the Windows partitions around on the source drive, then backing up to an external hard drive, installing the SSD and recovering the Windows install from the external HDD backup image. It was tedious and clumsy but it all worked out well.
It was essentially a dry run for potentially moving my aged brother's Windows install to new hardware should that be necessary. As it turned out, I swapped him over to Linux Mint and he's happy as a pig in mud.
So I have a second new pc that I want windows on. Can I use both pcs with this method?
Ps. Both pcs have different but similar hardware
Thank you again. 👍👍👍👍👍
So, I got a question. I had an ssd, in my laptop. I screwed something up, and the computer would no longer boot into Windows. The drive itself, is fine. If I were to clone it, to a different drive, would it still not boot into Windows? Thanks.
Thank you Brian ♥
i click on the os migration then a screen pops up saying before starting you can set a partition size on target disk but it doesnt allow me to do anything? the start button is greyed out.
any solution?
When I press OS migration it’s only giving me the option to select my local disk C (500gb) but I want to move it to my local disk D (1TB).
Did I miss something or what
what if you have a 1TB HDD which is only using 30GB, and you want to OS-Migrate to a 256GB SSD?
First do a shrink of your C drive partition to a size smaller than the new SSD you want to migrate to, and then it should work.
dual boot with windows and linux causes issues when using software cloning for some reason- but with a disk duplicator device, i can duplicate a drive and it is exact copy and boots just fine- using software cloning htough means having to fix boot issues afterwards if using linux grub- gotta run bootfix, also have to fix windows as i get a "couldn't load missing required file file= \windows\system32\winload.exe" and error "error code 0x000000e"- so gotta fix that
so I'm gonna save the disc genius software in the source drive, correct? and not to the target drive?