What about vice versa? Can I use the hdd drive that I removed and clone again the ssd without removing any screw? What I mean is that the one Im cloning is the external to my internal ssd, is there an option in the mini partition tool to clone the external? I mean the acronis.
@@KrOOliKakaKaTiaRa while this is wrong... bro. I feel ya! The deceptive marketing for 'demo' apps that you actually get no performance from is annoying.
@@mk2nathan I built mine in 2015. never had a problem... just fancy an upgrade. I had an amd fx-8320, hyper x savage 16gb ram, gtx 750 ti, 1tb WD black hard drive. Still works great to this day but its about time i made a change.
@@harrysmith3495 Fair enough mate, more reliable than I thought. 2 days ago I did the first proper bit of work to a computer (if u know what I mean). I installed a gtx1070, new psu and a new ssd. I understand a little how computers work now and building them isn’t as hard as I thought it would be. But my cpu bottlenecks my gpu and I was looking at getting a new mobo and processor. With a bit of research, do you think I’ll be able to do it or would that be a bit dangerous because it really easy to cock up?
Just cloned my 2011 HDD (HP laptop) to a Samsung EVO 860 500GB SSD. Used software from VisionTek, easy peasy, flawless process. Went from a 2 1/2 min boot up to a 15 sec boot. Loved my process......will do it again on other PC's
Hi. I used the above method. On completion of cloning, the drive booted the first time. But it did not booth the second time. It gave an error message. Then I booted using the Acronis Recovery USB (which I had used to clone) and repaired the SSD. It is working now. Thanks a lot for your video. It helped in successful installation of SSD.
Good video, but if you have a Samsung SSD then use their cloning software, it comes free with every SSD and it's by far the easiest & fastest to use. 1 click. I only buy Samsung SSD's because of it.
I was going to say this. Samsung Data Migration cloning tool is the best I've used, and it's free to use on Samsung SSDs. The 860 EVO 250GB is under $60 US and I just bought 2 500GB SSDs for $72.99 US each on Newegg. Their "magician" software isn't good for much except upgrading firmware, but the 860s I've installed in the last month all had a new firmware available. That being said, if Samsung can include easy to use cloning software, they're worth a couple of extra bucks. Plus their reliability is excellent, at least in my experience.
Samsung's Data Migration tool only allows you to clone the drive with your OS Installed on it unfortunately and you are unable to change it. So if you're looking to clone any of your secondary storage drives, it won't work.
Thank you, Brian, for the helpful video!! I'm adding this video to my favorites as I might need it someday. Hopefully, the HDD in my Asus AIO PC will last for a few more years.
Without the OS on the HDD, used for data only, the life 'should' be extended. I quoted should just in case there's SMART errors, such a damaged sectors. If only one, that's OK, yet when there's clusters of sectors bad, forget it, get another drive, these are low cost with Newegg promos. Personally, I prefer to purchase legacy WD RE4's which are new pulls from servers & yes these can be found on eBay. Ask before buying & make sure Feedback (& lots of it) are 99.5% or higher. Should the drive arrive with thousands of hours of usage, eBay has your back covered, just make sure to read description & save the messages of any questions asked. I've never had an issue with purchasing this way & own over a dozen RE4's, having a 64MB cache, are faster than the same gen (SATA-2) Caviar Black. My best build though, has a 2TB WD Gold (the RE4 replacement), faster, 2x the cache. writes are almost as fast as my first SSD, a 128GB Crucial m4 from 2012. While these were SATA-3 SSD's, reads are often double write speed. I recommend the WD Gold to anyone looking for a fast, reliable HDD with a 5 year warranty, designed for 550TB/year writes. A home or small business user will never hit that limit, the cool thing is it's cost is just barely more than a WD Black. When I purchased my pair of 2TB's on promo at $124.99 each, actually was $10 less vs the Black, with 2x the cache (128MB). At any rate, if your HDD is healthy, it'll likely last longer doing duty as a data drive vs having to carry the full load.;-)
Thank you for this video. This tutorial should help me create a clone of my laptop hard drive (need to replace with larger one), and was not sure how to use acronis. I haven't used a ssd yet - but from what you did in this video, it looks like it works well. Thanks Again! :)
Very good Video. Have two questions please. 1) Bought new DELL Desktop Mini Tower 3891 Inspriron with Intel i5 10400. Has WINS10 PRE installed on a small 256G SSD. I bought/installed new Ram Sticks(2x16G) and 2T M.2 SSD. 1a) Did I do wrong in taking out the PRE installed 256G SSD because I am going to CLONE my 3T SATA Folders/Files which measures a total of 429G, which has WINS10 ALREADY on it. Should I LEAVE 256G SSD in, setup Computer/Update THEN take it out, then put new 2T SSD in..... then Clone??? I will have my 3T SATA on USB EHD to CLONE to 2T M,2 SSD. Need guidance. What would you do??? 2) Finally. switching out SSD the screw to secure the 2T M.2 SSD tightens good but I noticed a slight bend in the SSD so I backed it off. I don't want it to be TOO loose for reasons and come a "little" bit loose then my Computer go nuts. Any help THANKS.
Samsung, which makes the 860 EVO SSD, offers a cloning software free from their website to clone your Hard Drive to a SSD. It works well and is rated a good software.
Hi Brian. I tried acronis and macrium a few weeks ago with no luck but finally got EaseUs Todo free to do the trick. Thanks for another great video. Have a great weekend over there!
Cloning is easy enough with the right software. What I need to know also is, after the cloning, do I need to get into the bios and change the boot order?
Thank you, the best one Ive seen so far on my search before taking on the challenge. Thank you for your time and patience. 1? How do i leave in the original hdd and make the sdd be the master drive?
nice vid will be doing this, Just 1 question when everything is cloned and you boot up in the new drive, does it boot up as before ie all programs and icons just like the original?, all emails etc.. will be like before?. cheers mike
Thanks for the detailed walk thru! I have plans toupgrade my 2011 desktop from its 7200rpm hdd to an SSD soon, but the yearly cost of Acronis does not make send for me. If they had a one time price that I could use over and over would be better. As was mentioned in a comment below I too will probably just use the software that comes with the SSD to move my data and the OS over.
Hi. I am planing to do this on my ASUS laptop (i3, 12GB RAM) soon. I am wondering what will happen to all my software licences that already have installed in my HDD. Do I need to reinstall all of them or they will be cloned too, so I don;t need to re-install them? Nice video, thanks.
Great tutorial and timely after cyber Monday. I would be interested in a look at how to use universal restore in Acronis to transfer to dissimilar hardware especially with inserting new drivers for controller etc.
Hi Brian. Thank you for making and posting this video. To test my understanding, ¿then, using said Acronis software, I can install/change over to an SSD drive from my existing mechanical drive? I have an older Vista PC (AMD Phenom 9500, 2.2 GHz, 3 GB RAM, 500 GB HD). ¿Is it possible to make this speedier by moving the O/S to an SSD? ¿Will the Vista O/S' Defragmenter cause any issues with an SSD (make it slower over time)? (Asking, for I'd like to someday soon upgrade to a more modern system). Please forgive my ignorance and (likely) dumb questions. Thank you for making and posting this video. (I'll likely have more questions). Thank you Brian. God Bless. tonyd\.
Another option that a friend of mine champions is the Ghost4U (g4u) utility. But, it requires having an FTP server to which one can ftp an image of the drive to be cloned.
Are SSDs as reliable as SATA drives. If a SATA drive fails you can often still recover data. If an SSD fails I assume you have no chance of recovery. Or do they fail a bit at a time ?
I saw another video with the lady using crucial cd to clone the entire computer, the process was much faster and easier, and it comes with the sata to usb cable.
If my current drive is dual booting with windows 10 pro and mx-linux, will the dual booting be cloned so that it will still dual boot with grub on the new drive as it did on the old drive? Appreciate your comments on that. Great video by the way.
Hi Brian. I wanted to know I have windows 10 tied to my ageing z68 ud4 xp mobo. If I clone my current system from my 500gb hdd to a new SSD. Can I use the cloned SSD for a new RYZEN build. I do not want to buy another windows 10 disk. Please let me know ? :) great video and helpful too.
Could I use the drive cleanser to delete everything on the hard drive after cloning it to the ssd? Cause I want to keep using the hard drive as extra storage.
Good. You've changed the boot order to the USB stick in the boot menu. Once you install the cloned SSD, don't you need to change the boot order in the boot menu to the SSD? Thank you.
He didnt change the order. He simply booted up using the USB drive and it brought him straight into acronis. I to was messing with the boot order but you actually need to enable the boot menu to be opened at startup if it isnt already
if you got a PC just get Apricorn EZ-Gig and you are good, if you have a Mac just get Carbon Copy and you are even better, both are about $35 and you have the max to back up a bootable copy of you're hard drive if anything happens, if it dose then put the good copy on your hard drive and make another copy and your back where you started and everything is fixed, SSD's are faster but a regular hard drive is cheaper and good enough to keep a copy on to get your drive back
After I have cloned my old HDD with a fully updated Win 10 on it, will my Windows 10 still be fully updated on the new SSD as it was on my old HDD, or do I have to update Windows 10 with all the large updates all over again? Please answer, and many thanks for this informative video!
This can be done without purchasing acronis. This is pretty much an advertisement for an easier method if you're massively involved in computer repair. It's not really what the average person needs.
I recently upgraded an older laptop to a SSD drive. I tried to do a clean install of windows and was not successful. I did figure out that I could restore from a previous back up image that I had of windows. I had to use the boot software that I use for my back up to boot from. What I'm wondering is. Is there not away to do a clean windows install from either USB or DVD ?? If you could explain or do a video on that, it would be quite helpful. Thanks
Not all videos clarify one crucial item at hand, and that is the T A R G E T SSD drive that is not initialized or partitioned/formated? how does this Acronis handle that?
Can i put the new ssd in its place inside the Desktop PC cabinet, connect to mother board through SATA cable and then directly proceed for cloning process. I do not think there is any need to prepare a separate bootable media and an usb data+power cable to connect the ssd. In case cloning is successful, and the old drive is disconnected, then it will automatically boot from the new ssd.
Might be a stupid question here. On that end bit where it says to unplug the original source drive. Do we have to do that? Reason being I got a 3TB drive partitioned to a 1TB and 2TB and I want to clone the 1TB to a SSD and then remove the partitions on the 3TB drive to put it back to 3TB.
Excellent video! I am about to install a 500gb SSD instead of my 128gb SSD (system) and 1tb (programs) drive. Will l also be able to "clone" installed programs from the 2nd drive too? Thanks.
I use Acronis ti2018 ... many users do backups but never test the recovery anytime... can you do a video backup full hdd and recover this to ssd... faster pc, plus you test your backups actually work... from cyprus Europe
So I like most folks wanted to update from my HDD to SSD drive without being a guru. Bought a Samsung pcie ssd drive 500GB the original being 1 TB drive and this turned into a headache. I have acronis software on my system with backup drive so I figured this is really brain dead? Well the software threw a curve ball as it did not like the smaller drive to clone to from larger drive it threw up a window saying there may not be enough room for Boot up. The new drive is a Samsung so I used their Data Migration software with absolutely no problem. This software is a lot easier to use/user friendly. This may be something you might want to try although it may not work except with Samsung product. Thanks for the great channel on how to do it yourself. PS. I won't mentioned I started with Windows 95 to Windows 98 to Windows XP then Windows 7( IMO the best one) to Windows 10. All much like a puppy that refuses to be house trained.
Yes it works fine just one little problem i have a screen that has moved too the left ? used acronis 2018 from the mechanical drive on a new ssd. Guess new copy is in order. :-)
If the drive you are copying doesn't contain the OS and only contains Music, Documents, Videos, Downloads and Games, is it safe to just copy and paste to the SSD without the use of cloning software? As long as anything that would access those files is closed such as Steam?
Good video, until I clicked on the link for Acronis which comes up at £65.. thats 3 times as much as my SSD cost! I'm off to look for a free alternative drive cloner
Sir I have backup of 500gb hdd With bootloader two partition If I used bootable pen drive for booting and restore to ssd with all partition And bootloader partition. Can I boot from ssd If I does not clone it , But only restore
Unless you have a lot of important things saved I would recommend resetting your pc to default so you don’t have any crapware installed on your ssd as I know many people will go for 250gb models
So with my new pc that I just built, I used the hard drive from my old one to keep the storage but ever since I’ve had a pc using the same hard drive, both pc’s would constantly crash and for the longest time, I thought it was overheating. I’m assuming that if I were to move over data from my hard drive to my ssd, get rid of the hard drive and just stick with the ssd, that it will be the solution. Can anyone correct me if I’m wrong?
If my hdd 1tb is installed inernally on my computer, then i buy and external ssd 500gb. How do i clone windows to my ssd, then remove windows from my hdd so there isn't two windows installed? Thanks.
This is fine if your source data is less or equal to new SSD but most computers have big drives with lots of data. Any tricks to move only what you need, other than a weekend spent deleting steam games and other crap.
i don't compltely agree with you saying that SSD's are way faster than a harddrive i have recently installed a 250GB SSD with windows 10 build 1803 on it thinking that my pc (ryzen 5-2600 6-core 12 threads, paired with MSI B450 pro motherboard and 16GB of ram) would start up windows in the blink of an eye, in reality i noticed only an almost neglible speed gain in comparison to my WD green 1TB harddrive when starting windows, the SSD was rated at SATA 3,0 so 6GB/s transfer speed, but the difference was marginal so i continued to use my harddrive as my boot disk
I'm doing all the things you are saying, but when I've come to te point where I have to click on Acronis 'choose media destination - USB drive' nothing happens. My USB drive is not recognized. I'm using a 16 Gb flash drive, usb 2.0, formatted first with Fat32 and later with NTFS, but Acronis does not detect de flash drive. Please, please help me.....
Hi, i installed a SSD into my Dell 490, and it is constantly freezing and running very slow, i managed to stabilise it for a little while but most of the time it just freezes, any solutions?
Hello, Ive had an issue where my PC is slow on startup. I don't have an SSD but that didn't used to be a problem. I am getting one soon so that should fix it. My HDD used to preform fine on startup withing 5 seconds i would be in with discord and steam open but it's not the same anymore. Any tips?
I just got a Crucial 500mx ssd. I currently have a 1TB HDD with only 70gb of data. I'm using Acronis. when I try to clone to the ssd, i'm getting an error that the destination drive does not have enough room and to shrink the data. I tried leaving off the HP recovery portion of the drive but still didn't work. I'm not understanding how 70gb can't be cloned to a 500gb drive.
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Thank you for your great and understandable videos, thank you
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What about vice versa? Can I use the hdd drive that I removed and clone again the ssd without removing any screw? What I mean is that the one Im cloning is the external to my internal ssd, is there an option in the mini partition tool to clone the external? I mean the acronis.
Shut up
Love how it tells me at the very last step that I have to buy it to do it...
torrents ever heard of it ? lol
@@KrOOliKakaKaTiaRa while this is wrong... bro. I feel ya! The deceptive marketing for 'demo' apps that you actually get no performance from is annoying.
Built my pc in 2013. 2020 now and I’m finally installing an ssd lol
Just out of interest, within that 7 year period, how many things went wrong and what did you upgrade? (If you did upgrade of course)
@@mk2nathan I built mine in 2015. never had a problem... just fancy an upgrade. I had an amd fx-8320, hyper x savage 16gb ram, gtx 750 ti, 1tb WD black hard drive. Still works great to this day but its about time i made a change.
@@harrysmith3495 Fair enough mate, more reliable than I thought. 2 days ago I did the first proper bit of work to a computer (if u know what I mean). I installed a gtx1070, new psu and a new ssd. I understand a little how computers work now and building them isn’t as hard as I thought it would be. But my cpu bottlenecks my gpu and I was looking at getting a new mobo and processor. With a bit of research, do you think I’ll be able to do it or would that be a bit dangerous because it really easy to cock up?
@@mk2nathan I upgraded my processor, Ram. Gpu Twice because the first GPU I bought went to shit 6 months after I bought it. Was completely fried.
Same 😂😂
Just cloned my 2011 HDD (HP laptop) to a Samsung EVO 860 500GB SSD. Used software from VisionTek, easy peasy, flawless process. Went from a 2 1/2 min boot up to a 15 sec boot. Loved my process......will do it again on other PC's
Hi. I used the above method. On completion of cloning, the drive booted the first time. But it did not booth the second time. It gave an error message. Then I booted using the Acronis Recovery USB (which I had used to clone) and repaired the SSD. It is working now. Thanks a lot for your video. It helped in successful installation of SSD.
Good video, but if you have a Samsung SSD then use their cloning software, it comes free with every SSD and it's by far the easiest & fastest to use. 1 click. I only buy Samsung SSD's because of it.
Yes Samsung SSD are very good.
I was going to say this. Samsung Data Migration cloning tool is the best I've used, and it's free to use on Samsung SSDs. The 860 EVO 250GB is under $60 US and I just bought 2 500GB SSDs for $72.99 US each on Newegg. Their "magician" software isn't good for much except upgrading firmware, but the 860s I've installed in the last month all had a new firmware available. That being said, if Samsung can include easy to use cloning software, they're worth a couple of extra bucks. Plus their reliability is excellent, at least in my experience.
Do you have to have both Samsung or just the one you’re cloning into?
Samsung's Data Migration tool only allows you to clone the drive with your OS Installed on it unfortunately and you are unable to change it. So if you're looking to clone any of your secondary storage drives, it won't work.
Thanks for the comment. I will get a samsung now.
2023 now and you are still helping an old woman out from across the pond. TY so much.
Acronis for the win! Thanks Brian, I have been using that program for ages too.
Great program
So u enjoying Covid rn?
Thank you, Brian, for the helpful video!!
I'm adding this video to my favorites as I might need it someday.
Hopefully, the HDD in my Asus AIO PC will last for a few more years.
You're welcome.
Without the OS on the HDD, used for data only, the life 'should' be extended. I quoted should just in case there's SMART errors, such a damaged sectors. If only one, that's OK, yet when there's clusters of sectors bad, forget it, get another drive, these are low cost with Newegg promos. Personally, I prefer to purchase legacy WD RE4's which are new pulls from servers & yes these can be found on eBay. Ask before buying & make sure Feedback (& lots of it) are 99.5% or higher.
Should the drive arrive with thousands of hours of usage, eBay has your back covered, just make sure to read description & save the messages of any questions asked. I've never had an issue with purchasing this way & own over a dozen RE4's, having a 64MB cache, are faster than the same gen (SATA-2) Caviar Black.
My best build though, has a 2TB WD Gold (the RE4 replacement), faster, 2x the cache. writes are almost as fast as my first SSD, a 128GB Crucial m4 from 2012. While these were SATA-3 SSD's, reads are often double write speed. I recommend the WD Gold to anyone looking for a fast, reliable HDD with a 5 year warranty, designed for 550TB/year writes. A home or small business user will never hit that limit, the cool thing is it's cost is just barely more than a WD Black. When I purchased my pair of 2TB's on promo at $124.99 each, actually was $10 less vs the Black, with 2x the cache (128MB).
At any rate, if your HDD is healthy, it'll likely last longer doing duty as a data drive vs having to carry the full load.;-)
Thank you for this video. This tutorial should help me create a clone of my laptop hard drive (need to replace with larger one), and was not sure how to use acronis. I haven't used a ssd yet - but from what you did in this video, it looks like it works well. Thanks Again! :)
Very good Video. Have two questions please.
1) Bought new DELL Desktop Mini Tower 3891 Inspriron with Intel i5 10400. Has WINS10 PRE installed on a small 256G SSD. I bought/installed new Ram Sticks(2x16G) and 2T M.2 SSD.
1a) Did I do wrong in taking out the PRE installed 256G SSD because I am going to CLONE my 3T SATA Folders/Files which measures a total of 429G, which has WINS10 ALREADY on it. Should I LEAVE 256G SSD in, setup Computer/Update THEN take it out, then put new 2T SSD in..... then Clone??? I will have my 3T SATA on USB EHD to CLONE to 2T M,2 SSD. Need guidance. What would you do???
2) Finally. switching out SSD the screw to secure the 2T M.2 SSD tightens good but I noticed a slight bend in the SSD so I backed it off. I don't want it to be TOO loose for reasons and come a "little" bit loose then my Computer go nuts. Any help THANKS.
Samsung, which makes the 860 EVO SSD, offers a cloning software free from their website to clone your Hard Drive to a SSD. It works well and is rated a good software.
Hi Brian. I tried acronis and macrium a few weeks ago with no luck but finally got EaseUs Todo free to do the trick. Thanks for another great video. Have a great weekend over there!
Cloning is easy enough with the right software. What I need to know also is, after the cloning, do I need to get into the bios and change the boot order?
For Mac Carbon Copy Cloner is a very good tool and makes your external disk bootable too with a file for archives.
Thank you, the best one Ive seen so far on my search before taking on the challenge. Thank you for your time and patience. 1? How do i leave in the original hdd and make the sdd be the master drive?
nice vid will be doing this, Just 1 question when everything is cloned and you boot up in the new drive, does it boot up as before ie all programs and icons just like the original?, all emails etc.. will be like before?. cheers mike
Good advice...done this on my PC and my old laptop and it really does make a difference..
Yeah its super fast with SSD
Thanks for the detailed walk thru! I have plans toupgrade my 2011 desktop from its 7200rpm hdd to an SSD soon, but the yearly cost of Acronis does not make send for me. If they had a one time price that I could use over and over would be better. As was mentioned in a comment below I too will probably just use the software that comes with the SSD to move my data and the OS over.
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Britec09 explainations for "how to.." THANKS again
Hi. I am planing to do this on my ASUS laptop (i3, 12GB RAM) soon. I am wondering what will happen to all my software licences that already have installed in my HDD. Do I need to reinstall all of them or they will be cloned too, so I don;t need to re-install them? Nice video, thanks.
Thanks Brian. A nice step by step tutorial. I think Acronis is the easiest to use
Yeah very easy.
Great tutorial and timely after cyber Monday. I would be interested in a look at how to use universal restore in Acronis to transfer to dissimilar hardware especially with inserting new drivers for controller etc.
Thanks
I see what I can do.
Hi Brian. Thank you for making and posting this video. To test my understanding, ¿then, using said Acronis software, I can install/change over to an SSD drive from my existing mechanical drive? I have an older Vista PC (AMD Phenom 9500, 2.2 GHz, 3 GB RAM, 500 GB HD). ¿Is it possible to make this speedier by moving the O/S to an SSD? ¿Will the Vista O/S' Defragmenter cause any issues with an SSD (make it slower over time)? (Asking, for I'd like to someday soon upgrade to a more modern system). Please forgive my ignorance and (likely) dumb questions. Thank you for making and posting this video. (I'll likely have more questions). Thank you Brian. God Bless. tonyd\.
Another option that a friend of mine champions is the Ghost4U (g4u) utility. But, it requires having an FTP server to which one can ftp an image of the drive to be cloned.
Are SSDs as reliable as SATA drives. If a SATA drive fails you can often still recover data.
If an SSD fails I assume you have no chance of recovery. Or do they fail a bit at a time ?
Wow, Thanks !! Really made clear what countless web searches have failed to tell me.
Can you do another video cloning the OS with Clonezilla, for us that can't afford Acronis or other commercial software?
You have the option to download and use the Mini Partition Tool free version. Just do a google search.
@@andybridge3637 Did it with Macrium reflect :)
It helps a lot. Simple instruction and easy to follow keep up the good work bro. Subscribed
Great video, thanks.
Would i be able to clone an xbox hdd to a new ssd drive using this software?
I saw another video with the lady using crucial cd to clone the entire computer, the process was much faster and easier, and it comes with the sata to usb cable.
If my current drive is dual booting with windows 10 pro and mx-linux, will the dual booting be cloned so that it will still dual boot with grub on the new drive as it did on the old drive? Appreciate your comments on that. Great video by the way.
Hi Brian. I wanted to know I have windows 10 tied to my ageing z68 ud4 xp mobo. If I clone my current system from my 500gb hdd to a new SSD. Can I use the cloned SSD for a new RYZEN build. I do not want to buy another windows 10 disk. Please let me know ? :) great video and helpful too.
Hi Brian for the recoverable media will a SanDisk 29.2GB USB Stick be enough, Thanks
Could I use the drive cleanser to delete everything on the hard drive after cloning it to the ssd? Cause I want to keep using the hard drive as extra storage.
With the ssd which one do i buy? As i want it to be internal, does it connect to the socket the hdd is removed from ?
There cloning software thats just malware like partition wizard, im familiar with acronis from years ago, they had a great free version.
Good. You've changed the boot order to the USB stick in the boot menu. Once you install the cloned SSD, don't you need to change the boot order in the boot menu to the SSD? Thank you.
He didnt change the order. He simply booted up using the USB drive and it brought him straight into acronis. I to was messing with the boot order but you actually need to enable the boot menu to be opened at startup if it isnt already
if you got a PC just get Apricorn EZ-Gig and you are good, if you have a Mac just get Carbon Copy and you are even better, both are about $35 and you have the max to back up a bootable copy of you're hard drive if anything happens, if it dose then put the good copy on your hard drive and make another copy and your back where you started and everything is fixed, SSD's are faster but a regular hard drive is cheaper and good enough to keep a copy on to get your drive back
After I have cloned my old HDD with a fully updated Win 10 on it, will my Windows 10 still be fully updated on the new SSD as it was on my old HDD, or do I have to update Windows 10 with all the large updates all over again? Please answer, and many thanks for this informative video!
Hope you and your family staying safe, does it clone only the os or every thing on the pc including music folders ect?
First class easy to follow instructions again Brian.....cheers
Glad you enjoyed it
Does Acronis allow you to partition the SSD manually? I like to leave 10% unpartitioned to improve drive life.
This can be done without purchasing acronis. This is pretty much an advertisement for an easier method if you're massively involved in computer repair. It's not really what the average person needs.
I needed my pro photography off of an old drive - This was a big help, thank you!
hi brian,pl do a vid on bitlocking of drives and how to unlock them prior to cloning,,,,,,
Thanks britec for showing this one... will be doing this after christmas :). Hopefully my acer 5741 laptop will zing after this
You're welcome.
I recently upgraded an older laptop to a SSD drive. I tried to do a clean install of windows and was not successful. I did figure out that I could restore from a previous back up image that I had of windows. I had to use the boot software that I use for my back up to boot from. What I'm wondering is. Is there not away to do a clean windows install from either USB or DVD ?? If you could explain or do a video on that, it would be quite helpful. Thanks
Not all videos clarify one crucial item at hand, and that is the T A R G E T SSD drive that is not initialized or partitioned/formated? how does this Acronis handle that?
Who the #### is disliking this video , this was awesome Not only is the boot time faster but also the security updates ! Bye for now Cheers
Thanks John, that's my thumbs down fan club
Can i put the new ssd in its place inside the Desktop PC cabinet, connect to mother board through SATA cable and then directly proceed for cloning process. I do not think there is
any need to prepare a separate bootable media and an usb data+power cable to connect the ssd. In case cloning is successful, and the old drive is disconnected, then it will automatically boot from the new ssd.
When you perform this procedure will all the applictions be installed on the SSD too?
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oF Duffman damn lets calm down it was just a question
Might be a stupid question here. On that end bit where it says to unplug the original source drive. Do we have to do that?
Reason being I got a 3TB drive partitioned to a 1TB and 2TB and I want to clone the 1TB to a SSD and then remove the partitions on the 3TB drive to put it back to 3TB.
Think I already answered this in discord lol
Excellent video! I am about to install a 500gb SSD instead of my 128gb SSD (system) and 1tb (programs) drive.
Will l also be able to "clone" installed programs from the 2nd drive too? Thanks.
Thanks
Will give it a try , to update my old pc .
I do a lot of HD video editing which I post on my TH-cam channel.
PC seems very slow
Should you back up your memory before doing that?
do you have to dissconnect your mechanical drive to boot up on the SSD if you intend to keep the mechanical drive?
First thing to check is the software. Well, never-mind acronis will cost you about 50 bucks. Off to look for another cloning video.
There is a free version
Excellent video quite descriptive but Advanced mode requires ADK instillation
I can never catch the bios message on my HP tablet, is there a way of slowing the startup so I can see which key to press to get the bios?
F10 is usually the key to press for an HP
Its Esc or f12, press em fast
@@watachinao5045 Thanks, I caught it.
I use Acronis ti2018 ... many users do backups but never test the recovery anytime... can you do a video backup full hdd and recover this to ssd... faster pc, plus you test your backups actually work... from cyprus Europe
So I like most folks wanted to update from my HDD to SSD drive without being a guru. Bought a Samsung pcie ssd drive 500GB the original being 1 TB drive and this turned into a headache. I have acronis software on my system with backup drive so I figured this is really brain dead? Well the software threw a curve ball as it did not like the smaller drive to clone to from larger drive it threw up a window saying there may not be enough room for Boot up. The new drive is a Samsung so I used their Data Migration software with absolutely no problem. This software is a lot easier to use/user friendly. This may be something you might want to try although it may not work except with Samsung product. Thanks for the great channel on how to do it yourself. PS. I won't mentioned I started with Windows 95 to Windows 98 to Windows XP then Windows 7( IMO the best one) to Windows 10. All much like a puppy that refuses to be house trained.
Hi there Brian, did you format the ssd? Thanks in advance
Cloning copies everything, including the formatting, onto the SSD.
Yes it works fine just one little problem i have a screen that has moved too the left ? used acronis 2018 from the mechanical drive on a new ssd. Guess new copy is in order. :-)
Some very helpful information. thanks again. I have been looking for a good migration software. Looks like Acronis will be it.
Does this software work if we wanna clone from a mechanical to an other mechanical hard disk, or from a SSD to another SSD?
If the drive you are copying doesn't contain the OS and only contains Music, Documents, Videos, Downloads and Games, is it safe to just copy and paste to the SSD without the use of cloning software? As long as anything that would access those files is closed such as Steam?
yes that is completely fine ive done it in the past multiple times.
Good video, until I clicked on the link for Acronis which comes up at £65.. thats 3 times as much as my SSD cost! I'm off to look for a free alternative drive cloner
"If you are not using a solid state drive in 2018-"
Me, not using one in mid-2021...
What about non bootable secondary hard drives that are failing?
Does this transfer ALL files. I have a ton of things I don't wanna reinstall
Brian, can I clone a Linux based OS internal HD, to an external SSD with Acronis?
Sir
I have backup of 500gb hdd
With bootloader two partition
If I used bootable pen drive for booting and restore to ssd with all partition And bootloader partition.
Can I boot from ssd
If I does not clone it ,
But only restore
You never enabled TRIM after booting the SSD. And pre-Windows 10 users also need to disable Disk Defragmenter scheduled tasks.
Thanks for the tutorial, just replaced my 1TB HDD with a 500GB SSD, and my computer is much more responsive!
I use easeus app it's fantastic to. Any data cloned to any drive obviously if there's enough space. Big bri in the house
Yeah there is a lot of good programs, use what you like, free or paid.
Unless you have a lot of important things saved I would recommend resetting your pc to default so you don’t have any crapware installed on your ssd as I know many people will go for 250gb models
Thanks for this but how does it work if you are wanting to clone from an old Win 7 drive to a new Win 10 computer and want to keep Win 10?
So with my new pc that I just built, I used the hard drive from my old one to keep the storage but ever since I’ve had a pc using the same hard drive, both pc’s would constantly crash and for the longest time, I thought it was overheating. I’m assuming that if I were to move over data from my hard drive to my ssd, get rid of the hard drive and just stick with the ssd, that it will be the solution. Can anyone correct me if I’m wrong?
If my hdd 1tb is installed inernally on my computer, then i buy and external ssd 500gb. How do i clone windows to my ssd, then remove windows from my hdd so there isn't two windows installed? Thanks.
This is fine if your source data is less or equal to new SSD but most computers have big drives with lots of data. Any tricks to move only what you need, other than a weekend spent deleting steam games and other crap.
Well if you OS is on a 4TB drive and its pretty full, then its not going to help you cloning.
EASEUS ToDo Backup Free is my go to backup and cloning software
i don't compltely agree with you saying that SSD's are way faster than a harddrive i have recently installed a 250GB SSD with windows 10 build 1803 on it thinking that my pc (ryzen 5-2600 6-core 12 threads, paired with MSI B450 pro motherboard and 16GB of ram) would start up windows in the blink of an eye, in reality i noticed only an almost neglible speed gain in comparison to my WD green 1TB harddrive when starting windows, the SSD was rated at SATA 3,0 so 6GB/s transfer speed, but the difference was marginal so i continued to use my harddrive as my boot disk
Hi does this work with UEFI/GPT? Does Windows and office retain their license?
Your videos are so accurate im thanking this well be good to ima try it
I'm doing all the things you are saying, but when I've come to te point where I have to click on Acronis 'choose media destination - USB drive' nothing happens. My USB drive is not recognized. I'm using a 16 Gb flash drive, usb 2.0, formatted first with Fat32 and later with NTFS, but Acronis does not detect de flash drive. Please, please help me.....
How could i do this for Duel Boot on mac. I want to clone my old Windows laptop HD and run it duel boot in Mac? Thanks
Does this mess with any application product keys or windows?
Hi, i installed a SSD into my Dell 490, and it is constantly freezing and running very slow, i managed to stabilise it for a little while but most of the time it just freezes, any solutions?
Damaged ssd, switch to a different one
Hello, Ive had an issue where my PC is slow on startup. I don't have an SSD but that didn't used to be a problem. I am getting one soon so that should fix it. My HDD used to preform fine on startup withing 5 seconds i would be in with discord and steam open but it's not the same anymore. Any tips?
Clear and precise explanation - Thanks
I just got a Crucial 500mx ssd. I currently have a 1TB HDD with only 70gb of data. I'm using Acronis. when I try to clone to the ssd, i'm getting an error that the destination drive does not have enough room and to shrink the data. I tried leaving off the HP recovery portion of the drive but still didn't work. I'm not understanding how 70gb can't be cloned to a 500gb drive.
Great Information. Thank you. I have followed your instructions on many computer applications.
EXCELLENT VIDEO SIR THANKS A LOT I FOR THIS VIDEO YOU MADE TRIED AND WORKD PROPERLY
How to use it on dissimilar hardware?
Gosh, you have made this so complicated, all I wanted to do was clone a hdd to an ssd
So much thanks for this videos, its so help full for me
🙂 ive used Acronis and so far it works fine
Great software
@@Britec09 😊 yup
I keep getting disc error and black screen when trying to boot up from my USB. Any idea why or what to do?
thanks