How To Clone or Copy Your Hard Drive With Acronis 

Clear and easy instructions! Simply awesome and much appreciated!

A most exelllent ,very clear and concise video sir,very helpfull indeed thankyou kindly steve from the uk.

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Thanks for the informative video. Questions: 1) Does it matter which drive the Cloning software is installed and running from (Source or Destination) when initiating clone? (Wouldn't it glitch/loop trying to clone to or from a hard drive that is running a program?) 2) Or do you need to boot from a separate boot CD/DVD disk instead of running clone software on Source or destination disk during the clone process?

Thank you. Getting ready to clone a new HD I just bought and your video was excellent!

Nice Steve! My Lenovo is currently backing up its HDD to a spare HDD, using Acronis backup. Next step will be copying to my new 1T SSD. I’m looking forward to a faster laptop. One complaint I have with the Lenovo is the absolutely terrible keyboard. It either double types or skips letters.

Actually USB 3.0 is not always blue. I recently came across black, which takes a little closer investigating to identify. If you come across one that is not blue, it will have the usb symbol "SS" somewhere nearby. It stands for super speed, I believe.

Thanks Steve - good job. I’m cloning this weekend!

Where did you run that software? Did you do it on the laptop? Did you boot from a cd or usb? Did the laptop already have a OS so you could run the cloning tool?

Does Acronis True image trial do all this for free ? or do I need to purchase full ver?

do you have to have a laptop that is using usb 3 hubs? what if mine is older is it backwards compatible?

I recently come my hard drive and everything work fine but later it told me that I had little space the one I have physically in there is 1-terabyte before it was only 80 gigabytes how can I get my computer to recognize the terabyte space and change it from the 80 GB Thanks I appreciate it Darrell

Thanks Steve, great tutorial. Just what I needed to know

is Acronis a free utility? if theres a boot up problem on the original HDD (like yours, a Lenovo) will that problem be on the new SSD? thanks sir, & great video

Thanks steve!! very clear in directions!!

Thanks. I found this video lesson so useful as a novice. May I please ask you for my education. Did you install the SSD first into your laptop before cloning/copying the OS onto it from your previous HDD? Is that the procedure I have to follow for this exercise? I have C and D partitioning on my HDD. Can the SSD also be partitioned? Should it be? So thankful for your expertise advice. Thank you once again for this lesson on this video.

You made a great video here, I'm happy I watched. Only thing I can help with is the camera work; there were a lot of unnecessary camera zoom/changes.

on acronis, when you cannot fit the harddrive you want to clone and it tells you that you can exlude cloning what you don't want, does the checkmark indicate what you don't want, or does the checkmark indicate what you wish to keep. That part I find a bit confusing. Thanks

Will this also copy windows 10? If so, is there a way to not do that?

nicely done. quick q: any simple way to clone a network drive without installing the software on that drive? thx

Excellent video thanks for posting, I have a 500 GB hard drive, which has Windows 10 and Linux Mint installed and partitioned as a dual boot. I would like to clone it partitions and all to a 1TB ssd , would that be possible?

great video. im by no means a computer expert but i think i could do this now. is the acronis software free? in this video you cloned from an ssd drive. i assume it is the same to go from hdd to ssd . correct? thanks.

Tech Steve, I have a hard drive array raid0. Two 1TB HD's in it. One of them is giving me warnings and I know if it fails I lose both so I want (need) to switch them out. I'd love to change it to a raid1 to avoid this issue in the future, but for right now I'd be happy stabilizing. I have another 1.5 TB hard drive in the computer separate from the array as a back up. With acronis could I mirror the two hard drive array to the 1.5 backup, put in two new drives then mirror it back? I also have a large external HD if it would be easier to mirror to an external for this purpose. Thanks in advance for any advice you might have to offer!

this really helped me out. Thanks a bunch Steve, :D.

Thanks for the video, I didn’t know about this software. I’m upgrading my hdd to a ssd/hdd hybrid soon. I may use this program. I also have been moving files from old hard drives onto external back up ones at work. Would this program be good for data transfer/ organization as well?

Like your video probably the best video I've seen out there yet and I'm seeing a lot of so what you're saying is once I clone my hard drive on my computer to my SSD I lose all my pictures and my documents and how many times can I clone that disk have a backup backup

In the video, you already have the SSD in the laptop- and it is obviously already booting from the SSD, so it must have already been cloned. My question is- when you FIRST cloned your old drive to your new SSD- was your old drive still in the laptop, and the SSD was on the outside, hooked up via USB? I have heard cloned laptop drives wont boot unless they are *inside the laptop during the cloning process*.. but if you need to set it up that way, how do you get your laptop to run if its original drive has been removed?

Just what I needed, and when I needed it. Fantastic! :-)

for a desktop clone is the equipment used to transfer the same ;do the pieces fit both desktop hard drives and laptop pcs

Thanks Steve, what was that cool background music? I will be looking at this again. We have a 3 year old computer then picked up a new one with an i5 with win-10. We are operating win-7 and want to clone HD and install in new computer.

Can I use Acronis free trial version to clone my old SSD primary drive to a new SSD large capacity future primary drive?

so if i only want to copy windows do i choose manual

Tech Steve.... What is your suggestion on cloning a HD from a computer that has a bad motherboard that's not replaceable? The HD itself is fine. I can hook it to a laptop as an external drive and read from it. I would like to create an image of it and not just copy all the files from it.

Question, I have a red circle with an x on my old hdd on the c: partition in the clone summary this is before I click the proceed button. I'm cloning to a new SSD drive from within Windows, is there a way to resolve this error before I click the proceed button?

hello tech steve i am a IT professional and i want to stop by and support and subscribe to your channel .

My HDD is 1TB 5,400rpm and its LOUD, my Laptop is a couple weeks old. I already imaged my SLOW hard drive with AOMEI Backupper Standard.

Thanks for the video. I want to clone a 2tb hdd (250gb used) to a Samsung 850 Evo 1tb ssd. I have some Steam games in the hdd. Will the cloning process erase my steam games, video card drivers and other programs? Also, will the hdd data be erased once cloning is complete? Thanks for your time. 😉

Thanks a lot #Tech Steve , Where i can buy those adapter for external hard drive ( 5:06 / 8:08)?

so steve do i need 2 adapters and a 2nd computer to do this or i can clone the HDD thats currently working on my laptop to SDD using my laptop?

How is this process different if one is cloning and upgrading a raid 0 system from two smaller m.2 drives to two larger ones?

Oh, one more question. Do I have to format my new ssd drive before cloning? Thanks.

I am changing my computers hard drive and I wanted to know if I need to format my old hard drive before I insert it or can I just plug it in my new computer

Hi Tech Steve. I have a quick question. I have an older Gateway laptop that i put a SSD in a year or so ago. I cloned the original drive from it to the SSD. Works GREAT. This computer is having internet problems where it is very slow. I want to take the SSD and put it into a newer Dell laptop and have everything the same on it as with the other one. Can I just take the clone drive and put it into the Dell and have it work, or will i have to take another route?

ok this is good now i have one mac with a 480GB SSD ( which is not full and i can swap to and windows 10 machine with 240GB SSD, i now want to swap the drives as windows machine is now main. I have an external drive. where i can dump the image now question is what software would be best to do this job and should I do this on mac or on windows?

Hi Steve. I recently had one of my laptops fail at a motherboard level. The 256 GB and 1 TB SSD's were ok. I have since purchased a WD Red 8 TB and partitioned it into four 1.25 TB partitions intending to "clone" my remaining 2 desktops and the other laptop with Acronis. My question, which I am afraid is "mute", is can I clone into a partition and get all the computers onto one drive. If not I will take older, smaller hard drives that are in storage and copy all the data onto to the 8 TB drive, reformat the smaller drives and use them one for each computer. Hopefully to remember to copy and rewrite the cloned drives every couple of three years to avoid data fade. I do make very frequent data backups on all computers onto a NAS but not the operating system. Calling and re-purchasing third party programs is expensive for one failure and very time consuming! Gotta be a better / faster way. Thank you!

So I have an old 2 TB hard drive and I have a new 2 TB hard drive. I want to clone the old one to the new one. After I connect the new hard drive to my computer and I am running my operating system from the old one, do I clone the old disk to the new one while I am still using it? Or do I have to go on a third disk and copy the old one to the new one while the old one is not in use? My question is can I clone the old disk to the new one while I am still on the old disk running my operating system and cloning software? Or will it not work because the disk is in use and being edited?

I did everything you did in this video , but may I ask how you get that last window to pop up? Do you have to boot up the computer from the program we used to clone? If so, can you tell me how you did? I get the message that says to restart your computer , and I do . But nothing happens after it resets normally . My ssd didn't clone from my hdd.

Greetings...great video...however I have a hp 23 all on one...I had a no boot disk error. I tried everything as well as a hard drive test which failed. So I changed the hard drive to WD blue.. Its giving me the same no disk boot error with the new hard drive...any suggestions?

Greetings Tech Steve. I will be switching my 1TB HDD to a 2TB SSD. I am wonder if the laptop will show the full 2TB storage memory after cloning, or only the "cloned" 1TB copied data. In other words will I have to go into the Acronis settings to adjust the partitions to accommodate the additional space in the Drive?

Thank you for the easy to understand video. I want to clarify a detail related to source and destination drive - when I watched a video on the Acronis website, they said that the new target ssd should be installed in the computer you want it in and the source drive should be connected by USB in order to clone, otherwise the new drive won't boot. Your way seems easier to me because I wouldn't have to change the boot sequence. I'm worried about the "not booting" even though I made an entire pc image file through Seagate Wizard. Also, does Acronis True Image 2016 align the drives so that I do not have to worry about a decline in performance on the SSD? I want to clone my Windows 7 64 bit 300 GB hard drive to a 240 GB SSD. I have used CCleaner and Defraggler as well as removed all videos, pictures, and my documents. Your answers will be much appreciated. Thank you.

Hi Tech Steve, I want to clone from one laptop to a new one. Can I just connect straight to the new ones USB port and not take the hard drive out. Also does that mean all my programs that had keys that I had to apply will all work still without readding them? I have a lot of photography programs and games.

i have a 1tb hdd and i want to get a 250gb ssd for windows and a few games, how can i go about doing this ?

Hello I have a 1 TB hard drive. If I want to transfer my files to an external hard drive, do I highlight them, click copy and click on the external hard drive icon?

i have a HP g6 laptop witha 298.09GB HDD (300GB) this laptop has 4 partitions (from the company) # C: (278.34GB) NTFS # D: Recovery (15.59GB) NTFS # E: HP_TOOLS (3.97GB) FAT32 # SYSTEM (199MB) NTFS i can use the F11 key to restore to factory settings without starting Windows (using partition "D") if i clone this HDD to a new HDD or a SDD will it going to clone all the partitions ? and can i still use the F11 key to restore to factory settings ? also if i use a bigger capacity drive like a 1TB what will happen to the extra space 700GB ? the HDD is making some sounds so it's time to get a new drive

I have to question? you when you clone to that disk where you able to boot from the clone disk?

hi Steve my macbook pro OS crashed so its asking me to re-install new os, can I make packup of my data before doing that using inateck without getting HD out of my notebook?

You might want to go to storage and then clean out all the temporary files and all the old windows backups and windows update files. You might want to backup certain data like tax records, Photos and everything in your documents folder. Helps to back up those items anyway. Never know when a drive will fail or your computer will be struck with a power surge or something like that. Even your house could burn down.

I have a quick question, if you don't mind. Still kind of new to all this, but would like to update my computer and make it faster. So, I recently purchased an HP Envy x360 i5 w/ 1TB 5400rpm HD and purchased a Sandisk Plus 120gb SSD. I wanted to know if there will be any problems from start to finish coming from the 1TB to the smaller 128g SSD? Some people have said that I'll only be able to go up in size, or I'll need to resize the file in order for it to fit to a smaller HD. This laptop is a week old with nothing on it. And, nothing on the SSD as well. I was also curious to know if I would need to fully reinstall windows 10 on my computer IF I used this program or another, like Macrium Reflect (free version)? I'd rather do clone process externally with a SATA adapter, then just install the SSD as the final step without any harm done. I'm not too computer savv, so I'm reaching out.

Hey TechSteve! I have a Seagate 1tb hard drive I took out of my Dell Inspiron One 2020 All-in-one desktop and put it in my Dell Dimension E510 and it doesn't boot for some reason. The hard drive is set to boot first in the boot sequence in the BIOS and Windows 8 is preinstalled on the hard drive. Do you think you can help? Thanks in advance!

Hi Steve. Can I clone to an external usb drive and transfer to another laptop at a later date. I was looking at Macrium reflect but no one seems to have vids showing how to do that. I have to return my screen broken laptop to the insurers before I can get a voucher to buy a new one. I can buy a new HD to clone to if there is some standard in modern UK laptops around the £350 range.

can I just copy parts of it like files or so?.. i didn't know about this until the tec gave me back my lap and then read the manual... but I've already installed all again... :c

this is a bit confusing. Whch drive, exactly, were you cloning to which? Thge ssd to the terabite harddrive or the terabite drive to the ssd?

When you clone an SSD is Mac OS (operating system) also copied together with files? or I have to install it separately?

It will clone all partitions like drive C:\ with windows & drive D:\ etc? If I use the cloned hardisk with licensed windows onto another laptop will it have problems with the license?

Hi there I was wondering if this step will help me I recently came home and my pc windows won't install itself accuse going to repair mold if I take out the hard drive and put in the way you did in the video would that help me take the files out without windows

Hi Steve, can you show me how to clone windows 2000 pc?

Is acronias free? When you clone a disc is your information on both drives?

I have some application software with their activation keys in my hard drive. After cloning those software will work or not?

So I'm trying to clone my info off my external hard drive to my laptop but my hard drive in my laptop doesn't come up as a destination

Is it possible to access the hard drives files through the hard drive its self? like game clips and copy them to the pc?

Hi Steve what model lenovo laptop is this in the video looks nice

Clearly explained thanks

Hi, thanks for the Video. can you clone 900Mb of a 2Tb drive onto a 1Tb drive? Thank you

I tried to clone my c drive SSD 250 g to new ssd 500 g but when I hit proceed it says it has to restart Acronis but once restarting does he same think. And ides why thanks in advance.

oh man I know Im late on this but thanks, great vid!!!

Nice video. Great, useful information. Cheers!

Please help me solve this problem as it is giving me headaches. Using AOMEI I have created 2 clone partitions with Win 7 OS-one on the J partition and other on the expansion drive. Both were created successfully; now the problem is I can't boot from either. They don't show in the Boot menu of System configuration. Also, I don't see them in the boot menu at boot time. I am still only seeing the previous boot partitions and not the new Clone partitions-either of them. Feel helpless. I have tried BCDEDIT also; even that doesn't display the cloned drives. What should I do? Anyone on this forum who sees this message is requested to help. Thanks

Hay I was wondering if I could clone my desktop harddrive and then put that copied harddrive into a laptop and run it.

hello sir steve, i need some advice my sony vaio Z series (wins 7/128 SSD/i5) was broken 4 months ago now after shipfting to win 10 and upgrading & installing drivers and softwares. in some reason :operating system not found: is keeps going on over and over and cannot open the windows anymore. bringed it to PC shop, they said my pc needs a data recovery which is so expensive 200$ or more. 1 week ago i purchased a junk pc in auction store with same model and system very functioning (bought only 50$)i want to know if it possible to clone the data drive of junk pc and then transfer it/ installed it to my old pc. i bought already a new SSD w/ cable usb connector.what is the very first step to do. i want my old pc brings back to life

Does cloning my hdd to a ssd remove all data from my hdd or will all data still be on my hdd and the ssd?

Can u clone a hard drive for defunctioning laptop and then put the cloned hard drive into a non-function laptop (corrupted windows boot files) and run it simultaneously with the other laptop on the same Windows licence??

Love the video, subscribed.

guy! i need help! what if i have 800gb used space on my 1 terabyte old hdd and i wanted to transfer from a 500gb SSD. i know one of the option is i need to copy some of my files to an external hard drive and transfer those files later to the SSD. but i dont have an external hd. can i instead run my old hdd as my 2nd disc and copy whats inside to my new ssd?

How lomg did that whole process take?

You showed us the LED on the power supply blinking, but you cut out the screen when it's actually doing the cloning? Why? THAT screen was what I wanted to see.

my hard drive has corrupted data on it, if i clone the memory onto a new hard drive will it erase the bad memory or will it copy it to the new drive?

It did help me. Thank you!

Do you have to buy Acronis? or can you install it for free?

Ok, but how do you do this now with a pcie m.2?

So i named the new drive x for the purposes of formating it, but my mbr is messed up. How do i change it back to c

mann , help mee please? this clone process exclude data from source disk , whatever "the cloned" ??

I bought Acronis True Image 2010 from an E-bay seller. It would not load. Total waste of $50. I Acronis and found my edition is no longer supported. If you want to copy files from a removed Sata harddrive, you only need a USB to Sata drive cable that can be bought for a few dollars on E-bay. With Windows 10 you download another copy if you have to replace the harddrive.

Nice job Steve.....

awesome vid dude.!

Thanks Steven!

Why did you go from a 1tb to a 250?

I did everything just like you said but my PC want boot from the new cloned drive. Im really not sure where I went wrong :-( The PC will only boot from the old drive, I've been into the boot menu and it shows all my drives but it just want boot from them.

how about thinkpad x100e so slow .if i change the ssd it become faster

thx man did help me alot