03 June 2024, Finally got tired of waiting 5 minutes for my computer to boot up and after viewing your clear and concise video I will upgrade my noisy and slow HDD to an SSD. Thank you for this excellent video.
This is a good teaching video. Those of you (not too many) who thought it was too long are (probably) not teachers. As a "Driver's Ed" instructor with 30+ years of experience it was just the right length with an appropriate amount of repetition. For my current skill level with computers it was a touch lengthy. For my 2008 skill level it was just what I needed. Plus, watching another teachers technique added to my own skills as a teacher. Thanks, Nerd Sidekick for your time and effort.
GLACIOUS13: As a teacher with 30 years of experience, since you clearly don't know too from to (it's too many, not to many), and you did it twice so it wasn't a typo, that seems pretty sad.
@@rogergeyer9851 You're absolutely correct! I've always had problems with that word. I've tried different mnemonics to help me yet still haven't nailed it down. Lol! To clarify though, I taught "Driver's Education" not "English" so... ...I do appreciate your bringing this to my attention though. I am not being sarcastic. I am always striving to do my best (edits applied) and have corrected people in the comments section as well. Thanks, again! Good, day.
@@GLACIOUS13 Good on you for being so gracious and humble to this absolute tool who was super rude and could have corrected you in a much nicer way than that. He could also learn to read considering you said you were a drivers ed teacher. This is coming from someone who is big on catching spelling/grammar mistakes, but I would never attack someone for making one. We need more people like you and less like Roger.
This is about learning how to do it with ease and with a methodology that is based in throwing parallel explanations about cables, connectors, good closeups and a back screen explaining acronyms so if you teach others is more than understandable and very recommended that you do not asume people already know everything and give appropriate explanations and of course the video that could take 5min for advanced users is taking almost 30min but is like being in a classroom learning it with excellent explanations with s simple language and no rush or time crusade. For me it was excellent because I evaluated it as what it is, a learning video. Good job buddy.
Replaced my 256 ssd with a Samsung 2tb following your instructions and it worked like a charm. Thank you so much. The other videos on RU-vid are super tedious in comparison...
Great tutorial video. Just one thing that I noticed was that it was quite a while into the video that you first mentioned anything about making sure that the power was disconnected from your computer. That is very important, especially for those that have little or no experience with this type of procedures. Like I mentioned, this is otherwise a very educational video. Keep up the good work!
If ya all felt you were wasting your valuable time with the first 14 min. as you knew all of that what the heck were you even watching this at all. There is so much that was left out that most beginners should have already known this much. Things like, DOES your software automatically set the OFFSET for SSD. I don't know about Samsung, but WD does not. How about UEFI? or DOES the software automatically partition for either MBR as opposed to GPT or does that have to be done. In other words, does it copy to UNALLOCATED space ONLY? I prefer MINI TOOL Partition Wizard myself. The only thing about it you need to know is that it does not automatically clone the BOOT portion (partition) on a GPT drive and that has to be done in a separate opperation.
The BEST!! The tutorial I have seen on RU-vid. EASY TO UNDERSTAND. You can make FROM DUM TO an EXPORT anyone on a computer including ME one 80-year-old no-save like me. Thank you, George.
I've been working at a body shop for a bit now and extra tips I learned was if you're painting the door, it's better to take off the mirror and belt molding (the trim at the bottom of the window) for a better paint job in the end. The mirror can get in the way, and if you're unlucky, the clear coat could stick in that gap between the door and the belt molding.
Very informative and impressive educational video, has to be one of the best I have ever seen. I could tell you had everything prepared and ready before hand, and knew exactly what you were going to say during the presentation. Thank You for taking the time to make and share this great video.
You even make beginners like me feel that maybe I could do this! So sick of new cheap pieces of crap computers; makes sense to upgrade an old box. You give me the courage to try it.
IMPORTANT NOTE: After cloning Windows OS you may need to re-validate your Microsoft OS and MS-Office as it will report that the Licence key isn't validated in most cases you will need to be online to allow the software to check the License validation server and validate don't forget this important step. With OS's like Linux this isn't necessary
so happy to know how easy SSD are to be formated, but specially to be cloned!! I'm an old school cloning guy (phantom cloning software, you know...😢😢😢😢). Thanks a lot!!!!
Fred Kelley, you make the most professional video demo of anyone I have ever seen. Your audio sound is great. The big screen TV in the back that provides additional information just makes for a much more enjoyable training session. Thanks! . . . Andrew Buffington - Texas
Amazing. This video is long but it's exactly what I need - the step by instructions are delivered calmly in an structured approach. Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video. It's truly appreciated. Excellent!
What I did when I built my computer was put in mobile racks. These racks mount inside the computer and your hard drives go inside sleeves that slide into mobile racks. I just turn the computer off, take a key and insert it into the mobile rack and pull out the hard drive. I can clone my hard drive in about 20 minutes with Acronis True Image. There are other fine programs out there but this one I have been using for a long time. I keep 2 copies in rotation all the time. Security is the first think in computer operation. Enjoy your computer and keep it cloned....
Nice take on how to go from a regular HD to a SSD. For me the best take from your script was to always go to the new drive's web site and get the migration software there and it's free! We are the other side, the often builders of PC's and restoring Mac Pro computers so our down take was ... the many loose cables not tied together! LOL I suppose before they made windowed computer cases no one ever bothered to neatened up the inside. Now zip ties are part of the build. Restoring three Mac Pro computers, strangely there are few cables in the case. Oh and the direct connect cable to a loose sata hard drive is a wonderful tool for doing disk images with (no external case required and it's put back in it's original box once imaged).
Awesome video! Werther it is three years old, Downloaded the clone software for Kingston and Samsung cloning It's great, because I cloned my drive ( New Drive ) and it was showing the new ones size, To be as small as the older drive, Had to make a new partition with a drive letter, to excuse to complete drive, not what I wanted! thanks again , from UK 🔥
I don't believe he didn't show changing the BIOS this is very easy to do and everyone should know how when the computer is starting it will show you what key to press to go into setup it's a different key on different computers (f2 on my present computer) then find something called boot device configuration press enter then go to the hard disk boot priority press enter (press enter again if you had more than one hard drive to give you the options to choose the one with your boot file on it) Then select as your first boot device. on my computer you can then press f10 "save and exit setup" or hit Esc until the save option comes up finish that and you should be good to go! note: if you had more than one hard drive it might be a good idea to disconnect the extra ones until you have completely finished the cloning process! Now in most cases even if you haven't done anyting in the bios it will probably still work finding the only hard drive that is there which is why and how this guys been getting away with this without telling you but if it didn't work you might be screwed until you figured out that you can always get into the computer bios while it is starting up! yeah sounds good to me humor!
Hi, unfortunately on my Tablet PC, no details of the kit from Amazon you show, appear as the view is either of other videos or comments. Please advise the details I will need to buy the kit. Your showing how the supplied data cable can be added to the PC data cable is a real bonus, because in my PC the cable is too tight to manoeuvre. It is a real pleasure to listen to your commentary, which you present in a clear pleasant way and slowly enough to be absorbed and understood. Thank you for posting and Regards Joe.
Great guide. Love that you took the time to record yourself on Video w/ props and TV Scenes. So much more Personable than just taking over a desktop display.
Thank you Fred for a very informative video on CLONING (the rest of it was good too). I am wanting to upgrade my Dell XPS 8930 SSD Card from 256gb to 2T, which is where my OS & Windows Pro is. This video helps me know what I need to do BEFORE I insert the new card and what I need to do AFTER I insert the new card. Any additional tips you can offer would be appreciated.
Excellent Video, very well explained in no-nonsense layman's language !!! However, it would have been a 'Bonus' for the purpose of your video presentation, if you showed the 'Before' Screen while the Old System (Mechanical Drive) was loading versus the New System (SSD) was loading !!!
I had a boss who was not at peace with "Let's get them glasses." His irritation with the need for glasses taught me pretty rapidly to put up with such simple difficulties. You covered being sure not to overwrite a disk with data you want to keep, but said if you're cloning onto a blank disc, there's nothing to worry about. How about this: If it's possible to clone to a disk with data on it, thereby losing that data, is it equally possible to engage the cloning software such that it tries to clone from your target disk to your source disk? If the software allows this, you could easily wipe your source disk! Thanks for the otherwise clear instructions. (By the way, it's amusing near the end to keep catching your reflection in a part of the tower.)
One trick you can do, assuming your Acronis etc. is not from your drive manufacturer is to temporarily add a third drive of the correct brand, you don't need to write to, or read from this drive, it's just there to make the software happy.
Thank you - exactly what I needed. I too have a 12 year old desktop gaming rig I built and the HD is failing. All indications is I'm not able to upgrade to NVMe but oh well. Thanks again! Greg 🤙
19:32 "Check out RU-vid if you're having trouble getting it to boot from the new drive. I'm sure you can find a video on how to rest your bios settings." From the computer... that... now... won't... boot... lol
Fred, Thanks for the info on getting the free cloning programs. I was using my purchased Acronis 12 and needed to clone a GPT drive. Acronis 12 doesn't allow this. Thanks to your tip I was able to get AcronisWD to complete the clone.
I just did a similar thing but cloned the boot Motherboard mounted 256GB NVMe to a 1GB NVMe I temporarily attached to a $17 PCle x4 card in a slot using the free utility called Macrium Reflect. It was very simple, as in idiot proof. Once done I switched the NVMe out and it booted immediately with zero issues. Interestingly I repeated this but instead using a USB-c attached standard 1TB SSD and took the resulting Clone to my iMac 5K and booted to the Windows 10 Pro SSD. It worked perfectly and all I had to do was add the Boot Camp drivers for that Mac. It can now run all the Steam Games that are also on the PC. Obviously not at the same time but very useful.
Well done! Wonderful and comprehensive tutorial, and your explanation is very clear and articulate. If I may assume, you might be a professor or a teacher.
My computer is barely 2 years old and the SSD is almost full. I've barely paid off this thing and am not in the mood to take it to the ubreakifix people and pay them hundreds of dollars more to install something that seems fairly easy judging by this video. I have my 2T SSD sitting here in front of me and I feel very confident that I can do this! Although, that thing about the Bios is just the thing that will happen to me, haha. Crossing my fingers that it will go as smoothly as this video demonstrated. Thank you!
Sounds like you don't need to clone a drive. You just need to install the new 2TB drive as a second drive and move some files off the original drive to the new drive. You'll just have two drives in your system. The original will be the boot drive as always, and you can store your new files on the new drive. You can change where Windows stores documents by default, for example. Or photos or videos. And of course, you can put your files anywhere you want yourself. You aren't bound by the default location that Windows sets for those files.
EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT PRESENTATION. NICE TO HAVE A TECH PRESENTATION WITHOUT HISTERICAL BALONEY BY PRESENTER. LARGE NEEDED SUBJECT FOR PEOPLE UPGRADING NOW TO SSD. A RIVAL TO CARY HOLZMAN. PLEASE DO MORE. GREAT CAMERA PRESENCE.
thank you so much for helping me install my SSD drive in my CoolerMaster desktop I have looked at a bunch of videos on youtube and all have been great but you have helped me the most thanks again its now June /06/ 2020
Nice video, however, I think that before you reassemble the computer you should make sure that the new drive boots. Test it while the new drive is still lying on the table.
my samsung data migration software can't seem to find my samsung 850 evo in windows 8.1 or 10. I used a usb to sata/ide adapter like you had but no go. I had a samsung 840 evo that worked fine. This is the second one that replaced another one that didn't work.
A lot of computer cases still have bays for a 5 1/4 inch drive and they don't appear to be going away any time soon unless you like a more compact case. The fact is the larger cases that have them are just better if you have a place to put it. Mine is under the desk, just because they are known as desktops it doesn't mean they absolutely must be there!! I think the name desktop stuck around from days when PCs were flat horizontal boxes and that is why people still refer to them as such.
nice job. would have liked you to warn people to insure the drive they are going to clone is clean and does not contain spyware, malware, or viruses. Also, explain that you do not wish to be putting temporary files onto SSD drive as re-writing to SSD drives shorten their lifespan.
It's actually easier to copy via hardware! Software copying is unnecessarily complicated and likely significantly slower. Get a two-dock USB hard drive caddy. Most of them have the ability to throw your drive into the 'source' drive on the dock, and there's a 2nd drive space for the cloned drive to go into. And on the back of the device there's usually a button to engage the copying action. This copying is faster, because it can be done without a computer even attached! Here's an example listed on Amazon for the dock I have, which works just fine: "ORICO Dual Bay 2.5" 3.5" USB 3.0 to SATA Hard Drive Docking Station with Offline Duplicator and Clone Function [UASP Protocol and 2 x 12TB Supported]- Black" -- currently listing for $33ish.
Hello Sir, this is a first time, I have watching your instructions. I'm interested to learn from you. I'll look forward to watch further program again. Thank you very much have provided excellence to Boot Drive.
Good morning. First, I would like to think you for your very professional presentation - outstanding teaching. I’m a 74 year old NON-Nerd who has a billion questions but I’ll only ask one at this time. You started your presentation discussing the cloning of a laptop using a USB 3.0 to SSD drives cable. If I have a USB 3.0 port on my desktop, can I use the laptop procedure instead of going into the desktop itself, other than disconnecting the old HD and installing the SSD after cloning? Thanks for your time. Phil
Hi Phil, yes this should work. If you are trying to clone onto a HDD (the big, old spinning drives), it is possible the cable may not be able to sufficiently power that type drive. But if you are cloning onto a SSD, that should work just fine.
if your using this drive to boot from (C drive) then you might also want to look into ways to minimize excessive writes to ssd drive cuz they are only good for so many writes ... there other really good videos that cover this. if your just using it as extra space to run your favorite game from then you won't need to worry about excessive writes as much
Dude, any modern PC or Mac uses some type of SSD (e.g. NMVe) these days. Your spinny disk of yesteryear may in theory support more 'writes' but it can die anytime due to motors, boards, and so on not to mention be 10 to 100 times slower.
Its usually too many writes for the normal user to worry about, they would upgrade down the road anyway before getting to that point. That being said, all it does is go into read only mode.
@@joshuaguenin9507 you could be right, i honestly haven't looked at how many writes we are up to recently cuz there is nothing wrong with the 4 or 5 spin drives i have installed now. i only had 1 drive burn out on me in my life time. i know when ssd drives first came out number of writes was a issue for people that dont want to buy stuff regaurdless every year ... ( i'm one of them, if i bought one it was cuz i needed more room not because it burned out usally)
man did you remind me of some old times. my first hard drive a seagate st-506 was the size of a small 2 slice toaster. try not to laugh yourself to death when i tell you the storage was an astounding FIVE MEGABYTES ;> then i moved to a 20 megabyte 5.25" seagate drive and after that to a 5.25" 80 megabyte drive. of course dos limited you to a partition size of 32 megabytes, so with the 80 megabyte drive required 3 different partitions to be fully used. i remember when in 1990 i bought a pair of 500 megabyte samsung 5.25" drives and at the time it never occured to me that i had ALMOST a gigabyte of combined storage ;> in those days to clone a hard drive, all you had to do was sys the new drive and then xcopy the source drive to the destination drive. i can remember when i thought i would NEVER fill my first 5 megabyte drive and now all i can do is complain because all i have is 9.09 TERABYTES on a single drive ;> i am 64 now and i hope to live long enough to see a single petabyte drive, even if it is just a single petabyte. i would also like to see a 100 gigahertz cpu.
If your laptop boot drive is an M.2 SSD you want to clone, you can purchase a USB adaptor to install one of your drives in for cloning. Be sure the adaptor you order is compatible. Some are good for both SATA and NVME, some only work with one.
Great instruction video, Mr Nerd! Everything is clearly explained in a pleasant manner. Thanks. :-) Maybe all those 'down-thumbers' didn't like your shirt or something equally juvenile.
That is easy. What is heard is how do you clone an old either spining or ssd hd to a nvme m.2 drive? I have done it using the similar USB Hd connection hardware. I used an external USB drive bay. Same principle. Only this this depends on being able to boot your old drive from your external usb connection and the tools on your motherboard as well. Give it a try.
Well, as I recall, Tonto was a man of few grunts ..."Kimmo Sabe" .. yet was one of the greatest side-kicks of all, noo?? and that "Lone Ranger " hollywood movie was terrific ... so 'side-kick now must mean "very competent"
If the original Boot Drive contained Windows OEM,I suspect that the clonned SSD can only be put back to the original computer (laptop or PC, with original master board) for use.
Hello Mr Kelly, Thank you. I'm trying to see if my Hard drive is dead, probably too late to clone.....But I'll run the hoover over it, now that I've removed it, and see if dust was the problem.....optimistic !!! But thanks ....Bill
The problem is some cloning software doesnt auto align to 1024 bytes of ssd, I would always personally choose fresh install over cloning unless you are an IT needing to reformat hundreds of units
Great.... I'm not as savy as some of the know-it-all's (not even sure why they stop by) my new ssd just arrived. Looking forward to doing this with my new found knowledge.
thank you so much for helping me install my SSD drive in my CoolerMaster desktop I have looked at a bunch of videos on youtube and all have been great but you have helped me the most thanks again its now June /06/ 2020
my question. Was you running Windows on the original drive while cloning it to the new drive? Or, did you use a different pc having both drives plugged to it to clone them?
Thank you so much for such a clear, sensible and practical guidance & mentoring. It's really helpful! ...and I can very much identify with your "glasses common theme"... 🤣
This is so much easier, buy a data transfer unit with 2 slots and you can clone or just transfer and on Amazon there only $35 or less. Easiest way to do a transfer or a clone.
I did this recently. I had a usb backup. I disconnected the old hd and installed a new ssd. I made a windows boot usb stick and selected the clone hd option to copy from the backup to the new ssd. Took about 3 hours to copy.
Yes, this is kind of practice is works as well, in this case you not need any SATA power cables and/or some sort of USB-to-mSATA adapter-cables at all. Nice! 👌☺
Cool theme music...LOL. Anyway I'm going to use your process, but can forgo a lot of the cabling. I'm cloning from my SATA HDD to an m.2 NVME. When It comes in I'll install it to the socket, so unless I'm wrong it should just show up in the 'Data Migration' software and I should be able to run it. Is that so? Anyway, Thanks for your info. You'll save me a ton of work. BTW I gave ya a thumbs-up and subscribed
THANKS for thia informative video hope it would help to the viewers. But for me, I'm frustrated of doing so, I've been following instructions through video from other RU-vidr, but unfortunately I didn't succed. My new SSD 950GB became unfunctional. I don't know what tricks they're doing for successfull cloning. A lot of suggestions but ends up to subscriptions and purchase (with free malwares and viruses), I was thinking I would get help, instead it worsen my problem. I'd rather buy a new laptop with SSD hard drive inbuilt. Anyway thanks for sharing Sir.
Will this work with an M.2 NVMe SSD? Also, if I in the future put back in my old drive for extra storage, will there be any complications or will it just be plug and play?
