I'm aware that the program in this video got paywalled. Sorry about that. I'm working on a new video right as another free way to do this. I'll post the link here when it's released. Should be a few weeks. Edit: here's the new video. th-cam.com/video/SY052k5bODA/w-d-xo.html
Best to reference live Linux tools for the job since they won't get paywalled, but using drive vendor utilities is another free option and so long as one matches one of the drives in the system I've not met one that doesn't work. When I've not brought a preloaded USB with me I just make a Ventoy one using my phone and download a variety of .isos. A double-ended USB drive is quite handy if one doesn't bring an adapter cable.
This method worked great. I'd expect something like this for windows since it's a proprietary os anyways. I used it to replace my 8yo ssd main drive on my old gaming pc. The drive was in the process of dying with files being randomly corrupted. This free version of the tool worked great to transfer my windows and data as it was to a larger ssd. However, since it was outdated, it failed to write proper recovery partitions for windows 10. I was able to download installation media without a usb to reinstall windows 10 and write the partitions properly so I am able to install updates and have access to windows recovery. It kept all my programs and data while fixing the integrity of my windows install. You should redo your video to add this step, since it's important to have the partitions set up correctly for modern windows installs, otherwise, the system can't update or access recovery. No need to find anything better unless it's faster. I think this piece of software works well. Thanks for sharing it in this vid. If anyone doesn't care enough to go through the steps to keep their programs and data, they can just reinstall and copy their files.
It may be surprising to hear that old PCs are left to recycle (Ewaste) with the hard drives still in them which means their personal data is available for anyone to access. Never leave your personal data available
Personally I remove the hard drives and the data. If the drive is salvageable. I use it as a clone drive for installs. If not, I tear it apart and get the earth magnates out of them. They are unbelievably strong.
It's not surprising at all. Very nearly all don't care and they don't take electronics to a recycling center either. They just dump the old PC and all other electronics including hteir phones into the trash bin for their city to haul off. They're oblivious and don't believe their personal information can be recovered from a bare drive. These are same plug-n-play consumers that had unsecured, open WiFi access points running everywhere in suburbia fifteen years ago.
I use Macrium Reflect as it lets you manage partition sizes as you do the clone, so no need for a second program. It also properly handles MBR and GPT partition types when you are cloning on a separate system, unlike some programs like Acronis.
I've actually had great luck with Acronis. One tip is to always run chkdsk on the old drive before running Acronis and you have a better chance of getting a good clone.
I agree, I bought Acronis because another TH-camr suggested it. Backups were fine but it would sometimes get a little flakey during drive cloning. Macrium Reflect has been great with no issues. I understand why they're discontinuing the free version, it was all many people needed.
This is exactly how I clone drives, works well. The only problem with cloning is you clone all of the issues with Windows with it. Most people just have Chrome, Office, Adobe Reader, and their data. In this case a reload of Windows is cleaner and faster. Cloning might be good for complex systems with a 100 apps on it but would challenge that a reload would generally be faster
The SSD-Alignment has something to do with internal storage. SSD use a page size of 4 / 8 KiB. If you copy from an HDD, that uses a "incompatible" LBS (Logical Block Size), it can happen, that data has to use 2 pages of the SSD instead of just one. This can reduce write performance of small data. (Just a quick overview why you should use the Alignment option when copying from HDD to SSD)
You can still use the USB to SSD adapter for spin disks with a powered USB hub. That way both drives can be connected to the hub if one of the drives is not the system drive that is being cloned, or the system drive is being cloned using another computer.
Aoemi is a great backup tool. I purchased a license so I can have it do automated backups of my system and have used it to restore my laptop more than once (because I tend to swap OSs from Windows to Linux and back again semi-regularly. My only problem is that when I restored my desktop from a smaller to larger drive, and resized the main partition, I ended up with the windows recovery partition showing as an active drive instead of hidden. I have a fix in the wings, but haven't tried it yet. I'm a little nervous about messing with it.
I found if you try to copy over to a drive that already has partitions on it, you can end up with with a mess like you are describing. I found if you use cmd prompt to erase all the partitions on that destination drive before any clone is attempted, it causes the clone processes to work much better!
@@chrovioo By default, your system drive should have three partitions, the main where your OS and Files live, and two hidden partitions, One is the boot partition (EFI on newer systems) and a recovery partition, which I'm not really certain what it contains. Neither show u[p in explorer, or should not. If you are restoring using Aoemi to the same size drive, you shouldn't see any difference. My issue was moving to a larger drive, and moving those partitions around after to reclaim space.
Can't you just have those 2 ssd's plugged in using a drive toaster and boot off of them? Rufus can create a "windows to go" installation option. perfect for your needs also, why not just use Macrium reflect? Has automatic resizing, backup, restore, imaging, validation and boot repair builtin
It's not hard doing it this way. Running Windows over USB is really slow and for the purposes of my channel, it's better to have it running on an SSD. There are lots of software packages that work well for cloning drives. I couldn't cover them all.
I've used Acronis true image for the last 13 years to clone drives. I always give my customers their hard drives and they ask what to do with it. I tell em to go target practice with it or take a hammer to it.
Or just tell them to keep it as a backup. Ssds are cool but when they fail they almost always die instantly. A backup solution is absolutely mandatory as a trade off for the speed increase.
Hey great video, i try to clone my ssd to a new one but when i tried to follow the steps in hbcd no source disk was available to be selected. Thank you for any advice on what you think the problem may be
I've used the Sabrent for M.2 NVMe and it's excellent. For 2.5" SATA I've used Vantec NexStar enclosures. They're well made and come in a variety of models with different interface options for connection to a PC. I've used their bigger brothers for 3.5" desktop drives. Great for housing the drive just replaced for external data storage/transport reuse. The bandwidth of an external 1TB drive walking down a hallway is huge.
You can also get something like a Wavlink Dual Bay Docking Station that lets you clone in a standalone device. It is not super fast but you just plug in your SSD drives and press a button.
I have now used it to clone all 5 hard drives in my system. So far so good. HOWEVER, still waiting to see if it will clone the contents of a RAID 1 disk to a "new" RAID 1 I just set-up.
Aomei Backupper is a fantastic tool. I'have used it for over 10 years. I havn't used the clone funktion, but the backup and recovery function. I have my disc partitioned in 3 partitions. Windows my files and recovery. I make backup files to recovery partition. My c drive is not so big so the image will not be big. I can recover my system that way. But there i a funktion in the program so that you can put the image to another lokation. That could be a new SSD drive. In the box you can set the image that goes to the SSD to be used to the SSD. So I think that the allignment that can be chooed is to set the settings correct so that the drive not will be defracted. You can go from a disk that is a HDD to a SSD and there defrag should not work.
Thanks for the advice. But I have a warning about usb m.2 adapters, I saw that some do not have enough power to drive an M.2 ssd disk via USB. I would like to know if there are ssd 2.5 cases for inserting an M.2 ssd. I have bought an external device for two disks, which includes the cloning function even without a computer. And I would like to know how to clone an M.2 to an M.2 disk if we don't have enough connectors on the motherboard and what adapter options exist.
There are adapters and external cases and externally powered USB hubs aplenty. Do some reading and select from whatever gets thousands of positive reviews and it's hard to go wrong.
Nice video, thanks very much. I have a work laptop running Windows 10 enterprise with a very small SSD that I would love to replace. However the pre-built system has bitlocker enabled and I can't get the bitlocker key, would this procedure work under this condition?
Why not have separate drives in the computer you don’t have to use nvme drives especially for video demonstrations and just use the boot manager to pick between a windows 10 install and a windows 11 one or you could do separate partitions on the 1 drive
Because I often need a default install that I can make changes too. It's easier just keeping one loaded that I can just clone then reinstalling from scratch every time.
If you keep have to switch between operating systems [win 10 and win 11 in this case] a hot-swap internal disk caddy would be the way to go. One or two bays. That way, you don't need to mess around with BIOS setting for the new system disk, just put the system drive you want in the first [or only] slot and remove and put the other disk aside. BIOS will just look for a system drive, it does not car which one, so long as it has some sort of boot partition, it will boot. You might have to sign in-'register" a Linux or other OS [BSD, etc] drive, but once you have done that, it is all good. This is particularly true of a Ventoy or Rufus portable USB stick/drive. But some BIOSes are fussier than others. Rufus is greater, but Ventoy, is a bit more intelligent, and automatically adds isos to its boot menu, and you can have more than one iso on the stick. For the paranoid, you can burn an OS onto an SD memory card [preferably the fastest you can afford, and with enough space for the OS/install image], because most of these have a little hard [physical] switch which you can set to read/write or 'read only". The obvious advantage here is that no malware can infect the SD disk if it is set to "read only", so you can use "Hiren's boot CD" [or similar] and run an anti-virus program from it to clean a badly infected host system. Of course, you have to do regular updates on the portable OS, particularly for the anti-virus or anti-malware tools, but you do that with a known clean system. USB sticks used to have hard switches on them, but I have not seen any lately. I don't usually waste my time trying to solve malware problems on an infected system, but will run my tools in a change-rooted environment by booting from my CD card.
1. Is it ok to clone a drive containing the OS while the system is running? 2. What about licensed software (windows, adobe and office etc.) is that still going to work with the cloned drive?
Hello. 1. No, the drive that contains the OS has to be unmounted during the cloning process. 2. The OS is copied intact so licenses would be copied as well. Sorry for my english. Greetings
About using Rufus, in your other video (Ultimate Recovery Environment for Windows PCs at 8.00), you recommend using MBR instead of GPT. In this video at 12:00, you recommend to use GPT instead of MBR. Which is better?
Do you do any consultations? I setup my PC back in 2017 (approx). I'm at the point now where I need to make upgrades and I'd like to do them myself - I've just forgotten most of what I studied for the build.
I love your videos and I work in the IT industry and your content has been very helpful. I definitely appreciate your honesty to your viewers... Like you said, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose.
Good Video. I generally use an older free version of Mini Tool Partition wizard.9.0 or 10.0 before they took away the closing wizard from the free version. I also use the partiton wizard in Mini Tool as easier to do the partition mods in a windows environment. For disk cloning if neither the source or the target is your current windows drive it will do the clone in windows. If the source is the windows version your are currently booted on the software will bring up a box to reboot into a pre windows environment to do the clone. Have been using this combination for years. Mini Tool partion wizard free version 9.0 seems to work the best for me.
I had to assist my father in cloning his computers HD to an SSD, and while everything worked without a hitch, we were a bit mortified to learn the DAW he uses for music production did NOT like that the HD was upgraded and de-registered his license, forcing him to use a second PC usage slot (without releasing the first one). So lesson learned: Microsoft is quite ok with this, and allows this to happen seamlessly, so do games, Adobe products et all. But music software? That's a whole different ball park. Apparently a few track the boot drive as a means of identifying "your" computer.
Some software uses the storage device's serial number as part of its activation. Even Windows might deactivate after cloning a drive. Typically you can reactivate though.
Thanks for the DAW related info ! I may get this trouble as well since i need to clone my DAW system disk as well. So handy to know. As tip. I will try to use a virtual windows, and on that install the VSTi and register on the Virtual PC. Then put the name and serial on paper next to putting it in to register. Then on the real system i install the VSTi as well and then try to use the key that i generated in the virtual machine's installation. Never tried this before AND i think it may fail because i do not know IF the virtual machine detects THE SAME computer id number. As you know the serial is created for the machine number. Looks like swapping the hard disk results in the hard disk giving our computers a new machine number, resulting in our registered VSTi to see a different machine number, which does not sync the machine number our old serial is linked to. SO be a test for me too. But one i always wanted to test. This way our virtual system only gets in trouble may we use a dodgy key gen. A virtual system you just copy and run the copy. Then just delete the copy after you get infected or such and make a new clone to test on and never use that key gen again. Keep in mind some don't only use name and serial, but also generate a file in our reg, or in the install folder of the VSTi. In that case we need to copy that to our real DAW system as well. AS SAID i did not test it myself yet. But these are what i expect as possible fail reasons. BUT it is a way to keep as much trash of your DAW as possible :) Hope it may help some fellow musicians out that may need to register VSTi after having to clone their DAW drives. Good luck ! PS, You can obviously also test this trick the other way around BEFORE you do the cloning proces. Then you just try to use the name serial you use on your current DAW. Then install the daw on the virtual win and try to use the same key you used in your real DAW. IF the virtual version accepts that name serial combi then you know its the same machine number. THINK i did try that and then normal VSTi that have name and serial work fine, but Trilogy, Atmosphere that use machine number on top of name serial, i had to then generate a new reg and ser name code for. SO i figure that for Spectrasonics like expensive VSTi we will need to generate new registration and name and serials for. The simple cheaper and free ones have less difficult protections so should not give those problems. Good to test these things, as if like i had to, you have to clone to give the studio a bigger drive, then you can have trouble finding all registration info, if the studio engineer before you did not work in an organised way. Took me a lot of time to find all the registry info. Can't use warezed ones in a legal studio, so no easy way like that out then.
Having a problem with preping a flash drive for use with my Dell 5759 to restore a cloned copy of my Win10 OS. Seems that the newer (Win10) version of Hirens does not produce a bootable flash drive using Rufus, but the older version of Hirens does boot, though the product warns that it's not ACPI compatible. Any thoughts? Thanks
Could you do a basic ckmputer video like what is a partition, disk, drive.. ect. I am trying to save my dads computer and feel a bit overwhelmed by terminology and options of recovery
If you are cloning to a Samsung SSD from any other make of drive they have a free software migration tool, dont forget to order a 3.5" to 2.5" adaptor when you order your USB cloning lead/adaptor.
I stopped using adapters a while ago. This is because you can practically mount SSDs anywhere without any issues. You can even use double sided tape if you wanted too.
It should. The first method should work with any size drive as long as the data fits on it. You could even go with a smaller drive. The second method requires the same size or bigger though. If you're using a bigger drive you just have to remember to expand the partition when you're done.
New to this and going to be installing a larger ssd in my laptop but I have a question. Will removing the old ssd corrupt or erase it as it did when I upgraded my ps4 hard drive?
hello cyber,I really like you video ,great info,,I have a tech question I cant seem to get a answer on,,my original hard drive, from my compact pressairo from 2008 stopped working the 2nd one i bought developed the same problem,,it spins very fast and the middle of the circuit board gets very warm to hot,the 3rd one i bought works for ,say 1m,i can see my files ,photos,songs,then it stopes,is the problem the circuit board or inside the arm could be stuck or the metal contacts on the arm broken or chipped off,i dont hear any broken parts when I shake it,anyway any help on this would be great,thanks,dan diorio,,,
Adapters will work for sata and nvme ones. Never had them work for 3.5 HDD but 2.5 HDD are not common (only have 1 external in that form factor). Not sure if I should clone or fresh install across systems.
I used the AOMIE back upper and disk clone mode yesterday. Upgrading an Intel nuc from a 500 gb SATA drive to a 2tb nvme drive. Spent 4 hours or so when it finished I changed boot to the nvme drive and disconnected the SATA drive and got a blue boot error screen. Do I need to pay for the OS clone option to achieve what I am doing here? Also if I do pay does that stay activated on the Hiren bootable USB?
hello again,i forget something,can you take the disc out of a deffective hard drive and replace it in a new one of the same brand,,,,mine are from 2009 to 2018,which are different brands,i have to check them.I have them ina storage box,thanks,dan,,
Thank You for this video. I was able to move my 256gb (or thereabouts) hdd to 2TB SSD last night. First option worked, did not need the Clonezilla option. System is very fast boot up now.
Kinda off topic but I have a question for you or anyone here. My mother has an external hard drive that she saved 10 years worth of data onto, from cooking recipes, documents, family photos, family tree research etc, and one day her pc stop recognizing it. After having tried many troubleshooting tips and even using something called, Disk Drill, (after a two day scan came back with, bad sectors results) it seems the drive might be toast. Any tips to recover the data on her external hard drive or is it just a bummer we need to accept.
CyberCpu, I have heard that if you clone a drive and put it in another computer the Windows OS will show not activated(yes/no?). But how is that any different than cloning your drive, then upgrading your motherboard/processor or your motherboard craps out and you need to replace it. Does than mean you have to pay for a new license for windows?, that can't be correct.
My hard drive running Windows 10 is failing and needs cloned. I created the Hiren's disk, all set on that. If I am cloning from a 3.5" non ssd to another 3.5" non ssd hd that has never been formatted, do I need to complete any steps before cloning?
As it seems like you’re replying to comments, I need some tech support. I have Windows 10 on my C:/ drive which is 100gb SSD. Then, I have apps and games on my 1tb D:/ drive which is HDD. Basically, I want to speed up apps and games by using the new 2tb SSD i got and replacing the 1tb hdd D:/ drive. But I don’t want to lose my file paths or re install anything. What should I do?
I wasted days trying to clone a win11 drive in any usable way, I finally went to the new drive's site and used their free migration software, it took no time at all and everything worked perfectly first try. didn't feel great.😕
In your casae and since you're using 2.5" drives, Why don't you get a drive drawer for your test rig ? This way you can boot from any 2.5" OS drive you want and won't need to clone in order to change OS.
I'd probably make an image file of both the Win10 and Win11 SSD's and keep them on one drive, once written, they clone faster and you don't have to worry about resizing partitions afterwards.
my boot drive (c) is only a 250gb m2 drive with no room! And i also have a 1TB m2 drive with tons of room! I have a 1TB m2 coming in today, which i like to replace my 250GB m2 drive. My question can i clone the current 250GB m2 drive to the other 1TB m2 on board and once that is done than replace the 250GB m2 with the new 1TBm2 and then clone internaly from one M2 to the other M2?? That with buying that M2 usb tool ???
my PC randomly started making tapping noises while it was turned off last night, this happened for around 3 minutes, about every 3 or 4 hours, however this also did start happening right after i flicked a bug that had managed to get into my room away after landing in front of my pillow, i don't like saying that, it makes you sound kinda dirty, but the fact it was just a fairly hot night. so i'm assuming that tapping was that bug relocating to around the computer. it happened again this morning and i put my ear near my PC and it did kinda sound like it was coming from inside but, hard to tell. the sound kept up for a little bit after turning the PC on but has for now stopped as of turning it on. i don't really want to have to replace the hard drive as i'm really not that computer savvy and will almost definitely need some help to do so
Will this work on a main drive, with your OS and everything, or is this just for drives storing data? I have a Windows 7 computer that only has one 1tb drive in it, and it's an old spinny boy that's dying. I just want to plonk it over exactly as is onto a new 1tb spinny boy.
Does anyone know if those drives he copies them on are external drives? I wanted to let my windows 11 run from an external drive? Does it work with the home version or does it have to be portable?
hi is it possible to it opposite? take an externaldrive and clone it into the boot system take external drive lets say D: and clone it over the boot drive C:?
Looks simple enough, just to be careful: Is it possible to clone my laptop hard drive into another hard drive that already has files and still keep those files?
No. By definition, the cloning process takes everything that's on the source drive and writes it to the destination drive. And as part of the process, any existing data on the destination drive is erased. It is possible to create a disk image of your source drive. In short, a disk image is an exact copy of the ALL the data on the source drive and it gets created as a single image file that can be saved on another drive. It won't affect any data on that drive. Just note that it will take up a lot of space. At the very least, it will take up as much space as is currently used. In other words, if you have a 500 GB hard drive and have used 400 GB, the disk image file will be a 400 GB file.
If I'm trying to change my internal 3tb hdd internal g drive to an external 4tb ssd drive by copying that 3tb drive and putting the data on the 4tb will the location stay the same even though the drive won't be in the same location when I start my computer up again and the g drive slot will be empty but still all on that external.... is it different for a data disc not a disc for os
Well the SSD will have a different drive letter than the internal hard drive. However, you can change the drive letter in Disk Management. What I would do: Copy ALL the data from the internal HDD to the SSD. If its a lot of data, say terabytes, it may take many many hours or even days, so be patient. Once it is finished and you're confident everything transferred over, power off your computer and disconnect the HDD. Power on your PC and boot into Windows. In Disk Management, select the volume (disk) that you want to change the drive letter. Right click on it and choose "Change Drive Letter and Paths". Make the changes as necessary. If everything else goes well, your SSD should appear with the new drive letter and everything should work as normal.
I just downloaded the latest Hiram's and booted it to my Acer 515-57 500 Gb NVME. AOMEI does not recognize NVME disks and Hiram's does not recognize wireless mice. Wired mice are ok, though. Had to use Lazesoft clone which appears to have worked ok.
Is there any way to clone a drive - any drive of any size and brand - without using/having a physical target drive and, instead save that cloned file as an ISO image file(don't mistaking with the backup process), for later grafting on ANY size, any brand and any sort of future storage unit?! What would that be useful for you might ask? Well, since by comparison cloning a drive - in theory - should be grafted on any target drive, while backup a drive is compatible only with the drive that was backed up from. And, when a disaster strike to you internal storage unit beyond repair, the only rescue situation is having - though not seems possible - a previous saved CLONED file, that can and will fit to any future storage unit, what ever the size, brand and form factor! From my experience that's the ultimate goal: a previous cloned image that fits all future storage units! A backed up image - in this case - is completely useless for a new storage unit(regardless the size, brand form factor)! So, is there program that can do CLONING WITHOUT a physical destination drive, but to save the cloned drive as a file(i.e. ISO)?!
I lost ALL my data on my Windows 10 "upgraded" from Win7, no recover, corrupted boot and non-bootable BRICK after doing a clone. I tried your MBR recovery method and it did nothing...I still have a brick.
Serious question is it possible to just take out both of my SSD drives and then reinstall windows via an external USB and then put the SSD back into my computer
hi need little help here, i want to recover back my hard drive which seems cant be detected on my computer after cloning device ssd. can you help me up ?
I stopped cloning drives. Backfired on me too many times. I have a 500gb USB SSD and a 3TB USB spinner and what I do is image the source drive to one of these with either Macrium Reflect or AOMEI Backupper. From there, I boot the Macrium/AOMEI Recovery ISO from a flash drive and restore the image to the destination drive. Takes a bit longer but I usually don't have to resize partitions afterwards. Imaging and restoring an SSD to an SSD takes 4 mins (nvme) or 8 minutes (sata). I try to avoid imaging spinners - I'm not in my 20s anymore! Too old for that shit ... 😆
my experience with 3rd party hard drive cloning has always been hit or miss, more hit than miss. Linux dd commands have always had 100% success rates so far :)
I need help!! I'm not able to get access to my computer because the monitor is solid blue and i can't see anything, and the computer pops up with this message: c"\windows\system32\MMDevapi.dill is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error. Try installing the program again using the original installation. The problem is I can't type anything to see any programs etc. Can anyone help???
Hi. My name is Rita, Im from Denmark. I have a extern harddisk that stop`d work 😭 What can I do. Hope you can help. I have a new to replase the opld, but I hope my photos and data can be saved. Big hugs Rita.❤
I don't get it. I've cloned the original drive to NVMe. it is GTP format, like my current drive with the OS on it. I've enabled legacy mode in BIOS because without it, the NVMe doesn't show as bootable at all. The NVMe now showing up as bootable in BIOS, I select it as 1st to boot. Its going straignt to blue screen and telling me there isn't any bootable OS on the drive. What gives?
It might be a driver issue. From recovery, try to boot the system into safe mode. Once booted immediately restarted the regular mode and see if it works.
@@CyberCPU i fully understand .. The 1st sector to sector clone I did was back in the day on a 20GB seagate HDD .. yes 20GB not TB .. Took 30+ hours and eventually failed .. turned me off from that since then BUT sometimes it is necessary, especially on a questionable dirve (s) ... Being in the scene for as long as ive been its great to see someone who is as down to earth as yourself who uses tools and techniques that everyone has access to ... kudos
I keep seeing this clone drive clone thign which honestly is kinda sad as its been a simple task since the 90s with norton Ghost and not with hundreds of free and laid software.
I'm aware that the program in this video got paywalled. Sorry about that. I'm working on a new video right as another free way to do this. I'll post the link here when it's released. Should be a few weeks.
Edit: here's the new video.
th-cam.com/video/SY052k5bODA/w-d-xo.html
You should also be aware that it is from China and if therefore not safe.
Best to reference live Linux tools for the job since they won't get paywalled, but using drive vendor utilities is another free option and so long as one matches one of the drives in the system I've not met one that doesn't work. When I've not brought a preloaded USB with me I just make a Ventoy one using my phone and download a variety of .isos. A double-ended USB drive is quite handy if one doesn't bring an adapter cable.
This method worked great. I'd expect something like this for windows since it's a proprietary os anyways.
I used it to replace my 8yo ssd main drive on my old gaming pc. The drive was in the process of dying with files being randomly corrupted.
This free version of the tool worked great to transfer my windows and data as it was to a larger ssd. However, since it was outdated, it failed to write proper recovery partitions for windows 10. I was able to download installation media without a usb to reinstall windows 10 and write the partitions properly so I am able to install updates and have access to windows recovery. It kept all my programs and data while fixing the integrity of my windows install.
You should redo your video to add this step, since it's important to have the partitions set up correctly for modern windows installs, otherwise, the system can't update or access recovery.
No need to find anything better unless it's faster. I think this piece of software works well. Thanks for sharing it in this vid.
If anyone doesn't care enough to go through the steps to keep their programs and data, they can just reinstall and copy their files.
@@ronp5615 your phone is also probably from China and therefore not safe...
An extremely performant program is Lazesoft Recovery Suite Home Edition; check that out, you'll be very satisfied about it!
It may be surprising to hear that old PCs are left to recycle (Ewaste) with the hard drives still in them which means their personal data is available for anyone to access. Never leave your personal data available
This is true. That's why I've done a few videos on destroying data.
I bought a used pc at a resale shop, and it still had the users data. I got a few interesting music files, and then wiped it.
Personally I remove the hard drives and the data. If the drive is salvageable. I use it as a clone drive for installs. If not, I tear it apart and get the earth magnates out of them. They are unbelievably strong.
Yea lost my feet pictures and midget porn 😢😢😢
It's not surprising at all. Very nearly all don't care and they don't take electronics to a recycling center either. They just dump the old PC and all other electronics including hteir phones into the trash bin for their city to haul off. They're oblivious and don't believe their personal information can be recovered from a bare drive. These are same plug-n-play consumers that had unsecured, open WiFi access points running everywhere in suburbia fifteen years ago.
I use Macrium Reflect as it lets you manage partition sizes as you do the clone, so no need for a second program. It also properly handles MBR and GPT partition types when you are cloning on a separate system, unlike some programs like Acronis.
That is a great and popular app to use
I totally agree, Macrium Reflect is the best partition manager for me.
I've actually had great luck with Acronis. One tip is to always run chkdsk on the old drive before running Acronis and you have a better chance of getting a good clone.
I agree, I bought Acronis because another TH-camr suggested it. Backups were fine but it would sometimes get a little flakey during drive cloning. Macrium Reflect has been great with no issues. I understand why they're discontinuing the free version, it was all many people needed.
@@samuraiwarriorsunite They're discontinuing the free version? 😱
This is exactly how I clone drives, works well. The only problem with cloning is you clone all of the issues with Windows with it. Most people just have Chrome, Office, Adobe Reader, and their data. In this case a reload of Windows is cleaner and faster. Cloning might be good for complex systems with a 100 apps on it but would challenge that a reload would generally be faster
The SSD-Alignment has something to do with internal storage. SSD use a page size of 4 / 8 KiB. If you copy from an HDD, that uses a "incompatible" LBS (Logical Block Size), it can happen, that data has to use 2 pages of the SSD instead of just one. This can reduce write performance of small data.
(Just a quick overview why you should use the Alignment option when copying from HDD to SSD)
You can still use the USB to SSD adapter for spin disks with a powered USB hub. That way both drives can be connected to the hub if one of the drives is not the system drive that is being cloned, or the system drive is being cloned using another computer.
They make adapters that will work with spinning discs. The adapter itself needs external power.
Aoemi is a great backup tool. I purchased a license so I can have it do automated backups of my system and have used it to restore my laptop more than once (because I tend to swap OSs from Windows to Linux and back again semi-regularly.
My only problem is that when I restored my desktop from a smaller to larger drive, and resized the main partition, I ended up with the windows recovery partition showing as an active drive instead of hidden. I have a fix in the wings, but haven't tried it yet. I'm a little nervous about messing with it.
Yes, that can happen sometimes.
I found if you try to copy over to a drive that already has partitions on it, you can end up with with a mess like you are describing. I found if you use cmd prompt to erase all the partitions on that destination drive before any clone is attempted, it causes the clone processes to work much better!
Aoemi is great for anything hard drive related. Very nice.
what do you mean the windows revert partition is active instead of hidden? I’m a clone/drive noobie
@@chrovioo By default, your system drive should have three partitions, the main where your OS and Files live, and two hidden partitions, One is the boot partition (EFI on newer systems) and a recovery partition, which I'm not really certain what it contains. Neither show u[p in explorer, or should not.
If you are restoring using Aoemi to the same size drive, you shouldn't see any difference. My issue was moving to a larger drive, and moving those partitions around after to reclaim space.
Can't you just have those 2 ssd's plugged in using a drive toaster and boot off of them? Rufus can create a "windows to go" installation option. perfect for your needs
also, why not just use Macrium reflect? Has automatic resizing, backup, restore, imaging, validation and boot repair builtin
It's not hard doing it this way. Running Windows over USB is really slow and for the purposes of my channel, it's better to have it running on an SSD.
There are lots of software packages that work well for cloning drives. I couldn't cover them all.
Love the desk space :) thanks for the tips
I've used Acronis true image for the last 13 years to clone drives. I always give my customers their hard drives and they ask what to do with it. I tell em to go target practice with it or take a hammer to it.
Or just tell them to keep it as a backup. Ssds are cool but when they fail they almost always die instantly. A backup solution is absolutely mandatory as a trade off for the speed increase.
Thank you for this video. Was trying to do this all day yesterday. The fiund your video, followed the instructions, and it worked.
I also use (Macrium Reflect) for backup/restore/cloning and it just works from Windows 10/11
Is it still free?
Did my boys pc last week,used Macrium Reflect upgraded his 512 m.2to 1 gig.very easy to do
Yes, there's lots of different software packages that will do the same thing.
@@CyberCPU sure is
Hey great video, i try to clone my ssd to a new one but when i tried to follow the steps in hbcd no source disk was available to be selected. Thank you for any advice on what you think the problem may be
I've used the Sabrent for M.2 NVMe and it's excellent. For 2.5" SATA I've used Vantec NexStar enclosures. They're well made and come in a variety of models with different interface options for connection to a PC. I've used their bigger brothers for 3.5" desktop drives. Great for housing the drive just replaced for external data storage/transport reuse. The bandwidth of an external 1TB drive walking down a hallway is huge.
love the shirt😂
Thanks, there's a link for it in the description.
You can also get something like a Wavlink Dual Bay Docking Station that lets you clone in a standalone device. It is not super fast but you just plug in your SSD drives and press a button.
I have now used it to clone all 5 hard drives in my system. So far so good. HOWEVER, still waiting to see if it will clone the contents of a RAID 1 disk to a "new" RAID 1 I just set-up.
Aomei Backupper is a fantastic tool. I'have used it for over 10 years. I havn't used the clone funktion, but the backup and recovery function. I have my disc partitioned in 3 partitions. Windows my files and recovery. I make backup files to recovery partition. My c drive is not so big so the image will not be big. I can recover my system that way. But there i a funktion in the program so that you can put the image to another lokation. That could be a new SSD drive. In the box you can set the image that goes to the SSD to be used to the SSD. So I think that the allignment that can be chooed is to set the settings correct so that the drive not will be defracted. You can go from a disk that is a HDD to a SSD and there defrag should not work.
Nice explanation of both methods. I have used both and others many times over the decades.
Thanks for the advice. But I have a warning about usb m.2 adapters, I saw that some do not have enough power to drive an M.2 ssd disk via USB. I would like to know if there are ssd 2.5 cases for inserting an M.2 ssd. I have bought an external device for two disks, which includes the cloning function even without a computer. And I would like to know how to clone an M.2 to an M.2 disk if we don't have enough connectors on the motherboard and what adapter options exist.
There are adapters and external cases and externally powered USB hubs aplenty. Do some reading and select from whatever gets thousands of positive reviews and it's hard to go wrong.
Nice video, thanks very much. I have a work laptop running Windows 10 enterprise with a very small SSD that I would love to replace. However the pre-built system has bitlocker enabled and I can't get the bitlocker key, would this procedure work under this condition?
I would recommend a sector by sector copy for that. I believe I show how to do that in this video.
6:43 Good idea! Go ahead and skip ahead. 🤔
I'm gunna wanna go head and do that myself. 🙂
This is a dumb question, but how do i boot into hirens boot cd? 3:29
That's my question too, I was thinking this was a video for people who don't know anything about this.
I love your desk. Did you make it or is it available for purchase?
It's two adjustable workbenches from Home Depot.
Why not have separate drives in the computer you don’t have to use nvme drives especially for video demonstrations and just use the boot manager to pick between a windows 10 install and a windows 11 one or you could do separate partitions on the 1 drive
Because I often need a default install that I can make changes too. It's easier just keeping one loaded that I can just clone then reinstalling from scratch every time.
@@CyberCPU makes sense I was just asking that’s all but you need a fresh-ish install doing it from a clone makes plenty of sense
If you keep have to switch between operating systems [win 10 and win 11 in this case] a hot-swap internal disk caddy would be the way to go. One or two bays. That way, you don't need to mess around with BIOS setting for the new system disk, just put the system drive you want in the first [or only] slot and remove and put the other disk aside. BIOS will just look for a system drive, it does not car which one, so long as it has some sort of boot partition, it will boot. You might have to sign in-'register" a Linux or other OS [BSD, etc] drive, but once you have done that, it is all good. This is particularly true of a Ventoy or Rufus portable USB stick/drive. But some BIOSes are fussier than others. Rufus is greater, but Ventoy, is a bit more intelligent, and automatically adds isos to its boot menu, and you can have more than one iso on the stick.
For the paranoid, you can burn an OS onto an SD memory card [preferably the fastest you can afford, and with enough space for the OS/install image], because most of these have a little hard [physical] switch which you can set to read/write or 'read only". The obvious advantage here is that no malware can infect the SD disk if it is set to "read only", so you can use "Hiren's boot CD" [or similar] and run an anti-virus program from it to clean a badly infected host system. Of course, you have to do regular updates on the portable OS, particularly for the anti-virus or anti-malware tools, but you do that with a known clean system.
USB sticks used to have hard switches on them, but I have not seen any lately.
I don't usually waste my time trying to solve malware problems on an infected system, but will run my tools in a change-rooted environment by booting from my CD card.
Those adapters do often power 3 inch drives. I used one to get my mom's family photos off a HDD with a broken Ubuntu install.
They might work sometimes. However, it's best to use one that has external power if you're using a spinning disc.
1. Is it ok to clone a drive containing the OS while the system is running?
2. What about licensed software (windows, adobe and office etc.) is that still going to work with the cloned drive?
Hello.
1. No, the drive that contains the OS has to be unmounted during the cloning process.
2. The OS is copied intact so licenses would be copied as well.
Sorry for my english. Greetings
About using Rufus, in your other video (Ultimate Recovery Environment for Windows PCs at 8.00), you recommend using MBR instead of GPT. In this video at 12:00, you recommend to use GPT instead of MBR. Which is better?
Mbr wouldn't let me boot from usb
I think this guy is a hack and makes stuff up as he goes. The intent of this video was to get people to use AOMEI and he gets a cut
Do you do any consultations? I setup my PC back in 2017 (approx). I'm at the point now where I need to make upgrades and I'd like to do them myself - I've just forgotten most of what I studied for the build.
I love your videos and I work in the IT industry and your content has been very helpful. I definitely appreciate your honesty to your viewers... Like you said, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose.
Good Video. I generally use an older free version of Mini Tool Partition wizard.9.0 or 10.0 before they took away the closing wizard from the free version. I also use the partiton wizard in Mini Tool as easier to do the partition mods in a windows environment. For disk cloning if neither the source or the target is your current windows drive it will do the clone in windows. If the source is the windows version your are currently booted on the software will bring up a box to reboot into a pre windows environment to do the clone. Have been using this combination for years. Mini Tool partion wizard free version 9.0 seems to work the best for me.
So to install a M2 SSD I want to use a USB adapter, clone my system to it, then install it to the provided slot to boot off of it?
Yes. Well at least that's how it's supposed to work.
I had to assist my father in cloning his computers HD to an SSD, and while everything worked without a hitch, we were a bit mortified to learn the DAW he uses for music production did NOT like that the HD was upgraded and de-registered his license, forcing him to use a second PC usage slot (without releasing the first one).
So lesson learned: Microsoft is quite ok with this, and allows this to happen seamlessly, so do games, Adobe products et all. But music software? That's a whole different ball park. Apparently a few track the boot drive as a means of identifying "your" computer.
Some software uses the storage device's serial number as part of its activation. Even Windows might deactivate after cloning a drive. Typically you can reactivate though.
Good to Know. Thanks
Nope not just music software. I had so many problems with softwares after cloning
Thanks for the DAW related info ! I may get this trouble as well since i need to clone my DAW system disk as well. So handy to know. As tip. I will try to use a virtual windows, and on that install the VSTi and register on the Virtual PC. Then put the name and serial on paper next to putting it in to register.
Then on the real system i install the VSTi as well and then try to use the key that i generated in the virtual machine's installation.
Never tried this before AND i think it may fail because i do not know IF the virtual machine detects THE SAME computer id number. As you know the serial is created for the machine number. Looks like swapping the hard disk results in the hard disk giving our computers a new machine number, resulting in our registered VSTi to see a different machine number, which does not sync the machine number our old serial is linked to.
SO be a test for me too. But one i always wanted to test. This way our virtual system only gets in trouble may we use a dodgy key gen. A virtual system you just copy and run the copy. Then just delete the copy after you get infected or such and make a new clone to test on and never use that key gen again.
Keep in mind some don't only use name and serial, but also generate a file in our reg, or in the install folder of the VSTi. In that case we need to copy that to our real DAW system as well.
AS SAID i did not test it myself yet. But these are what i expect as possible fail reasons. BUT it is a way to keep as much trash of your DAW as possible :)
Hope it may help some fellow musicians out that may need to register VSTi after having to clone their DAW drives. Good luck !
PS, You can obviously also test this trick the other way around BEFORE you do the cloning proces. Then you just try to use the name serial you use on your current DAW.
Then install the daw on the virtual win and try to use the same key you used in your real DAW. IF the virtual version accepts that name serial combi then you know its the same machine number. THINK i did try that and then normal VSTi that have name and serial work fine, but Trilogy, Atmosphere that use machine number on top of name serial, i had to then generate a new reg and ser name code for.
SO i figure that for Spectrasonics like expensive VSTi we will need to generate new registration and name and serials for. The simple cheaper and free ones have less difficult protections so should not give those problems.
Good to test these things, as if like i had to, you have to clone to give the studio a bigger drive, then you can have trouble finding all registration info, if the studio engineer before you did not work in an organised way. Took me a lot of time to find all the registry info. Can't use warezed ones in a legal studio, so no easy way like that out then.
Having a problem with preping a flash drive for use with my Dell 5759 to restore a cloned copy of my Win10 OS. Seems that the newer (Win10) version of Hirens does not produce a bootable flash drive using Rufus, but the older version of Hirens does boot, though the product warns that it's not ACPI compatible. Any thoughts? Thanks
AOMEI, using it for serveral years, great tool!
I subscribes because of the good information, the clear presentation and the beard, mostly for the beard.
Can you run clonezilla with ventoy, Or it can only be run by rufus?
Yes, you can definitely use it with Ventoy.
Could you do a basic ckmputer video like what is a partition, disk, drive.. ect. I am trying to save my dads computer and feel a bit overwhelmed by terminology and options of recovery
hello sir, nice video..
Will this operation work if the source disk is a classic ssd hdd and the target disk is an nvme ssd?
Yes.
If you are cloning to a Samsung SSD from any other make of drive they have a free software migration tool, dont forget to order a 3.5" to 2.5" adaptor when you order your USB cloning lead/adaptor.
I stopped using adapters a while ago. This is because you can practically mount SSDs anywhere without any issues. You can even use double sided tape if you wanted too.
What if the destination disk is larger.. will it still wrk. I tried but comes up can’t clone because logical sectors don’t match.
It should. The first method should work with any size drive as long as the data fits on it. You could even go with a smaller drive. The second method requires the same size or bigger though. If you're using a bigger drive you just have to remember to expand the partition when you're done.
New to this and going to be installing a larger ssd in my laptop but I have a question. Will removing the old ssd corrupt or erase it as it did when I upgraded my ps4 hard drive?
hello cyber,I really like you video ,great info,,I have a tech question I cant seem to get a answer on,,my original hard drive, from my compact pressairo from 2008 stopped working the 2nd one i bought developed the same problem,,it spins very fast and the middle of the circuit board gets very warm to hot,the 3rd one i bought works for ,say 1m,i can see my files ,photos,songs,then it stopes,is the problem the circuit board or inside the arm could be stuck or the metal contacts on the arm broken or chipped off,i dont hear any broken parts when I shake it,anyway any help on this would be great,thanks,dan diorio,,,
Adapters will work for sata and nvme ones. Never had them work for 3.5 HDD but 2.5 HDD are not common (only have 1 external in that form factor). Not sure if I should clone or fresh install across systems.
I used the AOMIE back upper and disk clone mode yesterday. Upgrading an Intel nuc from a 500 gb SATA drive to a 2tb nvme drive. Spent 4 hours or so when it finished I changed boot to the nvme drive and disconnected the SATA drive and got a blue boot error screen. Do I need to pay for the OS clone option to achieve what I am doing here? Also if I do pay does that stay activated on the Hiren bootable USB?
hello again,i forget something,can you take the disc out of a deffective hard drive and replace it in a new one of the same brand,,,,mine are from 2009 to 2018,which are different brands,i have to check them.I have them ina storage box,thanks,dan,,
Thank You for this video. I was able to move my 256gb (or thereabouts) hdd to 2TB SSD last night. First option worked, did not need the Clonezilla option. System is very fast boot up now.
Kinda off topic but I have a question for you or anyone here. My mother has an external hard drive that she saved 10 years worth of data onto, from cooking recipes, documents, family photos, family tree research etc, and one day her pc stop recognizing it. After having tried many troubleshooting tips and even using something called, Disk Drill, (after a two day scan came back with, bad sectors results) it seems the drive might be toast. Any tips to recover the data on her external hard drive or is it just a bummer we need to accept.
Try this.
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CyberCpu, I have heard that if you clone a drive and put it in another computer the Windows OS will show not activated(yes/no?). But how is that any different than cloning your drive, then upgrading your motherboard/processor or your motherboard craps out and you need to replace it. Does than mean you have to pay for a new license for windows?, that can't be correct.
My hard drive running Windows 10 is failing and needs cloned. I created the Hiren's disk, all set on that. If I am cloning from a 3.5" non ssd to another 3.5" non ssd hd that has never been formatted, do I need to complete any steps before cloning?
As it seems like you’re replying to comments, I need some tech support.
I have Windows 10 on my C:/ drive which is 100gb SSD.
Then, I have apps and games on my 1tb D:/ drive which is HDD.
Basically, I want to speed up apps and games by using the new 2tb SSD i got and replacing the 1tb hdd D:/ drive.
But I don’t want to lose my file paths or re install anything. What should I do?
I wasted days trying to clone a win11 drive in any usable way, I finally went to the new drive's site and used their free migration software, it took no time at all and everything worked perfectly first try. didn't feel great.😕
Can you make a video on task manger being randomly freezes I'm frustrated with the problem
Works a treat, thanks 👍🏼
In your casae and since you're using 2.5" drives, Why don't you get a drive drawer for your test rig ? This way you can boot from any 2.5" OS drive you want and won't need to clone in order to change OS.
I'd probably make an image file of both the Win10 and Win11 SSD's and keep them on one drive, once written, they clone faster and you don't have to worry about resizing partitions afterwards.
my boot drive (c) is only a 250gb m2 drive with no room! And i also have a 1TB m2 drive with tons of room! I have a 1TB m2 coming in today, which i like to replace my 250GB m2 drive. My question can i clone the current 250GB m2 drive to the other 1TB m2 on board and once that is done than replace the 250GB m2 with the new 1TBm2 and then clone internaly from one M2 to the other M2?? That with buying that M2 usb tool ???
Excellent video and a must-see! Thanks for sharing
Is easeus clone option not good? just installed it and saw that there is also a clone option there.
my PC randomly started making tapping noises while it was turned off last night, this happened for around 3 minutes, about every 3 or 4 hours, however this also did start happening right after i flicked a bug that had managed to get into my room away after landing in front of my pillow, i don't like saying that, it makes you sound kinda dirty, but the fact it was just a fairly hot night. so i'm assuming that tapping was that bug relocating to around the computer. it happened again this morning and i put my ear near my PC and it did kinda sound like it was coming from inside but, hard to tell. the sound kept up for a little bit after turning the PC on but has for now stopped as of turning it on. i don't really want to have to replace the hard drive as i'm really not that computer savvy and will almost definitely need some help to do so
thanks
can we do this without any additional software?
Will this work on a main drive, with your OS and everything, or is this just for drives storing data?
I have a Windows 7 computer that only has one 1tb drive in it, and it's an old spinny boy that's dying. I just want to plonk it over exactly as is onto a new 1tb spinny boy.
Yes, it works on any drive.
I like easeus disk copy for my cloning. It simply boots off a usb. Just select the 2 disks and hit go.
Thanks for fixing the title.
Shows that you're paying attention to the comments.
No problem. Thanks for pointing it out.
Love your videos.
Keep up the good work!
Does anyone know if those drives he copies them on are external drives? I wanted to let my windows 11 run from an external drive? Does it work with the home version or does it have to be portable?
hi
is it possible to it opposite?
take an externaldrive
and clone it into the boot system
take external drive lets say D: and clone it over the boot drive C:?
I been using G4L since the early days. Works fine with ssd.
Looks simple enough, just to be careful: Is it possible to clone my laptop hard drive into another hard drive that already has files and still keep those files?
No. By definition, the cloning process takes everything that's on the source drive and writes it to the destination drive. And as part of the process, any existing data on the destination drive is erased. It is possible to create a disk image of your source drive. In short, a disk image is an exact copy of the ALL the data on the source drive and it gets created as a single image file that can be saved on another drive. It won't affect any data on that drive. Just note that it will take up a lot of space. At the very least, it will take up as much space as is currently used. In other words, if you have a 500 GB hard drive and have used 400 GB, the disk image file will be a 400 GB file.
If I'm trying to change my internal 3tb hdd internal g drive to an external 4tb ssd drive by copying that 3tb drive and putting the data on the 4tb will the location stay the same even though the drive won't be in the same location when I start my computer up again and the g drive slot will be empty but still all on that external.... is it different for a data disc not a disc for os
Well the SSD will have a different drive letter than the internal hard drive. However, you can change the drive letter in Disk Management. What I would do: Copy ALL the data from the internal HDD to the SSD. If its a lot of data, say terabytes, it may take many many hours or even days, so be patient. Once it is finished and you're confident everything transferred over, power off your computer and disconnect the HDD. Power on your PC and boot into Windows. In Disk Management, select the volume (disk) that you want to change the drive letter. Right click on it and choose "Change Drive Letter and Paths". Make the changes as necessary. If everything else goes well, your SSD should appear with the new drive letter and everything should work as normal.
@@JJFlores197 do you know how disc wizard works in approach with add a disk or cloning a disk
@@angelolima4811 Not sure what you mean by that? If you plug in a cloned drive, it will appear as any other drive in your PC and in Disk Management.
@@JJFlores197 i mean the program disc wizard by seagate
@@angelolima4811 Oh I'm not familiar with that. Sorry.
All activated programs including Windows remain intact? Do I not need to reactivate it? Because I had that problem before when I cloned a hard disk.
Occasionally you have to reactivate but it's pretty rare.
@@CyberCPU Okay thank you! 🙂
I just downloaded the latest Hiram's and booted it to my Acer 515-57 500 Gb NVME. AOMEI does not recognize NVME disks and Hiram's does not recognize wireless mice. Wired mice are ok, though. Had to use Lazesoft clone which appears to have worked ok.
Can clone UEFI bootup harddisk please? Becasue I still use Symantec Ghost to clone harddisk.
My new Samsung SSD and the software won’t work with my older Dell laptop any suggestions
Is there any way to clone a drive - any drive of any size and brand - without using/having a physical target drive and, instead save that cloned file as an ISO image file(don't mistaking with the backup process), for later grafting on ANY size, any brand and any sort of future storage unit?! What would that be useful for you might ask? Well, since by comparison cloning a drive - in theory - should be grafted on any target drive, while backup a drive is compatible only with the drive that was backed up from. And, when a disaster strike to you internal storage unit beyond repair, the only rescue situation is having - though not seems possible - a previous saved CLONED file, that can and will fit to any future storage unit, what ever the size, brand and form factor! From my experience that's the ultimate goal: a previous cloned image that fits all future storage units! A backed up image - in this case - is completely useless for a new storage unit(regardless the size, brand form factor)! So, is there program that can do CLONING WITHOUT a physical destination drive, but to save the cloned drive as a file(i.e. ISO)?!
Question when I clone the hard drive will it also copy the operating system and all it's settings
Yes.
I lost ALL my data on my Windows 10 "upgraded" from Win7, no recover, corrupted boot and non-bootable BRICK after doing a clone.
I tried your MBR recovery method and it did nothing...I still have a brick.
Serious question is it possible to just take out both of my SSD drives and then reinstall windows via an external USB and then put the SSD back into my computer
It didn’t ask me if I want to copy boot files? Is this going to be a problem?
It should be fine. As long as you're cloning drive to drive then it should do everything including your boot files.
hi need little help here, i want to recover back my hard drive which seems cant be detected on my computer after cloning device ssd. can you help me up ?
I stopped cloning drives. Backfired on me too many times. I have a 500gb USB SSD and a 3TB USB spinner and what I do is image the source drive to one of these with either Macrium Reflect or AOMEI Backupper. From there, I boot the Macrium/AOMEI Recovery ISO from a flash drive and restore the image to the destination drive. Takes a bit longer but I usually don't have to resize partitions afterwards. Imaging and restoring an SSD to an SSD takes 4 mins (nvme) or 8 minutes (sata). I try to avoid imaging spinners - I'm not in my 20s anymore! Too old for that shit ... 😆
You can drag and drop in Rufus as well, how I do it
I wasn't aware of that. Good to know.
my experience with 3rd party hard drive cloning has always been hit or miss, more hit than miss. Linux dd commands have always had 100% success rates so far :)
How much would you charge me to clone windows xp from a gateway solo 2000 laptop to new ssd?
I need help!! I'm not able to get access to my computer because the monitor is solid blue and i can't see anything, and the computer pops up with this message: c"\windows\system32\MMDevapi.dill is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error. Try installing the program again using the original installation. The problem is I can't type anything to see any programs etc. Can anyone help???
I put in my mew ssd and when booting the old one with an adapter i keep blue screening
Is this possible on machines that have a oem key how does that work im on win7
Hi. My name is Rita, Im from Denmark. I have a extern harddisk that stop`d work 😭 What can I do. Hope you can help. I have a new to replase the opld, but I hope my photos and data can be saved. Big hugs Rita.❤
I don't get it.
I've cloned the original drive to NVMe. it is GTP format, like my current drive with the OS on it.
I've enabled legacy mode in BIOS because without it, the NVMe doesn't show as bootable at all.
The NVMe now showing up as bootable in BIOS, I select it as 1st to boot.
Its going straignt to blue screen and telling me there isn't any bootable OS on the drive.
What gives?
It might be a driver issue. From recovery, try to boot the system into safe mode. Once booted immediately restarted the regular mode and see if it works.
but in my lenovo laptop,.. whatever i try to do to improove,... the laptop denies due to company software,...
Hi great!
Can you do a video cloning a Mac hard drive! Please
what about option "-rvd" in the list?
Does it matter if I'm going from something that had an amd chip to intel?
nope
Is there any reason you can't use a USB enclosure rather than the adapter?
No, that should work too.
Love the tutorials you do but this one .. dear Lord ... sector by sector
Sometimes you have no choice. It's definitely the worst case scenario. I wouldn't recommend doing that all the time.
@@CyberCPU i fully understand .. The 1st sector to sector clone I did was back in the day on a 20GB seagate HDD .. yes 20GB not TB .. Took 30+ hours and eventually failed .. turned me off from that since then BUT sometimes it is necessary, especially on a questionable dirve (s) ... Being in the scene for as long as ive been its great to see someone who is as down to earth as yourself who uses tools and techniques that everyone has access to ... kudos
does this transfer everything? like steam games with their save data and I won't have to install again?
most likely, however if not it does not matter as steam games' save data is stored on the cloud
any update to this tutorial on a free way to clone considering its now locked behind a paywall?
I'm working on another video. Should be out in a few weeks.
ah gotcha, thanks in advance@@CyberCPU
if you don't select Q1, why copy will it do?
Do you need the adapter
you can connect it directly to your computer as long as you have a SATA power cable and data cable
I keep seeing this clone drive clone thign which honestly is kinda sad as its been a simple task since the 90s with norton Ghost and not with hundreds of free and laid software.