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@@ThisBytesForYou Then it is well hidden as the easy there it is way when I tried to download it was gone. No matter, I found something else far better, and was really free.
@@generalawareness101 then you didn't check the link in the description. January 1at, they stopped making it free for ever, it's now a 30 day trial, but it still works like I show you, only for 30 days. You didn't look hard enough.
i watched so many videos trying to figure out how to clone my hard drive into my new SSD for free, but all of them lead nowhere until i discovered your channel!! you're a blessing ❤thank you very much! and keep up the great work you're awesome!
Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.
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This video was a huge help. I just recently got an SSD internal drive and getting everything cloned, set to boot, and clearing out the old drive was a breeze thanks to you.
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Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. I really do appreciate your kind words my friend.
Thank you so much my friend, I really do appreciate your kind words and support, sadly its going ever so slow, please do feel free to spread and share this link, it would help tons, thank you.
Mate, thank you a lot for this. I had no idea that software existed and it's been very handy. Just a few things to add to the video for newer folk: - If you bought a brand new drive to replace your old one, you will need to initialise it BEFORE you use it for cloning. Otherwise your BIOS will fail to recognise it as a bootable drive even if it can read it perfectly while you are booting from another drive. This video shows you how to easily initialise your brand new drive in the "Initialising a drive" section in the second half of the video. It's a common mistake to forget this, so before you mess with your RAID/Legacy/UEFI BIOS config, make sure your drive is adequately initialised. Initialising your drive basically creates a tiny piece of information your BIOS needs in order to know that the drive can be used for booting. - The software owners have removed the free licence and now offer a free 30 day trial of their software. Likely to be enough for most people just trying to upgrade or replace a drive who are watching this.
Yeah, January 1st they changed it, but the 30 day trial does everything I show in this video, and all that happens, is that you can't clone it again, not a biggy and always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.
Thanks man, I just tried this twice and could not figure out why the new disk would not boot. I dont know why I forgot to initialize, but on the other hand it was maybe 10-12 years ago since I cloned a disk :) cheers!
The best tutorial out there if you don’t have an external drive lying around to install your OS to your new M.2 SSD. This worked like a charm for me all throughout! Thank you so much
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Man, I rarely comment. Seeing your subscribers count got me tears for what you have offered. You deserve millions.. It will happen soon. Keep doing such value contents that are "really useful" to people. Comments show here that you have touched thousands of hearts 😊
Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. Yeah, the subs gets me upset as well, but I can't control it, so I can only be upset for a sec, I am pushing hard but it seems like it is taking for ever, would help tons if you could share videos you find useful where you see people have questions that they fit, it would help tons, thanks my friend, and thank you, I really do try to help more than anything, to give people the confidence to do these things on their own, to save money but even more to feel good about themselves, that they were able to overcome the scary part and work through it, thats an awesome feeling and I am so very happy I could help you.
Prior to finding your video I had been struggling for over an hour trying "free" apps that when you were about to start the cloning they directed you to their Sales page, I was about to pay just to be done and then found you, clear instructions, clear process, you cover every possible option, I'm so thankful for your help!
Thank you so much for your kind words and support my friend, it means the world to me and I am so very happy I could help you. I need to make a 2024 edition of this.
Hey Iggy, i followed this guide to upgrade from my 256 pcie3 m.2 boot drive to a 1tb pcie4. I had to remove my other m.2 storage to do the swap and was a bit worried it might mess up with the drive letters but it all went flawless. In particular, that tip about getting the software to expand the new partition is what made the difference, thank you. No-one else covers that step and then you have to rely on seperate hardware as you can't just expand that partition in disk manager. I used WD770 black, seems like a really good storage. Doubled my speed from the old integral M2! Also can confirm that in Jan-23 the Macrium free software still works. Just sent another subscriber your way for your pc build videos 👍
good stuff my friend, thanks so much for your kind words and support, and odd about Macrium, did you just go to the site I mention in the video or did you use the description I typed up? I ask because they announced January 1st that they would stop offering it for free, so just making sure, regardless, it is an awesome piece of software, so If not free, its cheap enough to buy, and worth. The partition, I thought very important to mention, so very happy you enjoyed that as well. Thanks again bud and congrats on that speed bump ;)
Brilliant tutorial, I have seen lots of Macrium tutorials and you are the first to explain it clearly and the bonus is the easy way you wipe the old drive of partitions Windows will not delete. Thanks 👍👍
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As of December 8 2022 this works fantastic, follow step by step and nothing will go wrong. I never comment on videos but you deserve all the praise for saving me a headache of losing any data. And setting up new boot drive with ease! Can’t thank you enough man
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Watched too many Videos and this one is the best out there. Special thanks for the Disk cleaning part with proper guidance and demonstrations which was extremely helpful. Thank You ☺️
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@@ThisBytesForYou Grateful that you still take time to reply, that shows the level of commitment and the efforts that you put in making your contents. I was struggling from the last two days and finally your video helped me. Grateful for the help, kindly accept my Gratitude. Subscribed and looking forward for more such valuable learnings 🙏
ahhh that's awesome my friend, thanks so much for your kind words and support, it means the world to me. So very happy I could help you, and yeah, it is a little cumbersome at first, but once you do it once or twice, its makes more sense. I release videos every week to help you in all things PC related, I hope to catch you in some more videos, again, thank you so much.
@@ThisBytesForYou Ah yes you're right, partition. I kept my OS on a separate drive, I no longer use partion. This is the the video I need, I just finished the video, thanks a ton, it helps a lot.
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tHaNks for mentioning that partitioning the unallocated space to the C drive is crucial while initially cloning the hard drive. It saved me from having to figure that out myself
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100% helpful step-by-step video. Was looking for alt to AOMEI since they removed the cloning functionality in the free version and found Macrium thanks to you!
Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. Yeah AOMEI screwed me over after I made the video, making me look like an idiot, because it was free, after I made the video, they started charging for it, so I reached out to Macrium and wanted to make something better, so happy you enjoyed it.
always a pleasure my friend, so very happy I could help you, this video will also help you, just in case: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-e8omB4pFLlA.html and if you like the video and you want more PC information, please make sure to subscribe, I come out with videos every week to help you on all sorts of PC related this.
Thanks for the video. Quick question, will this work on cloning Windows 10 with all existing programs, tools, and settings? I'm asking because some cloning tools won't clone correctly and there are then problems when booting from the new cloned disk
Yes it will work perfectly fine, before you do this, make sure to follow the bios and software settings I show you in the video I am going to link up ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4BtdMcqwaFg.html, then come back and watch this video Make sure not to delete the old drive for a few days after you have removed the drive from your machine and made sure the clone works. Follow this video exactly.
Love your videos!!! Following up to the posts I entered on your other video for installing an M2 drive. Couple of questions on this: 1) By cloning, does this just bring over data, and then you have to reinstall all the programs after cloning, or does this make an exact copy of the origin disk, and the programs work just like on the origin disk, without having to do anything further after cloning is complete? 2) How is this different than signing in to OneDrive on the new disk? I seem to recall that when I bought my new computer (WIN 10), I turned it on, signed in ro my Microsoft account, and it brought everything over to my new computer and was exactly as the old computer. Does OneDrive work similar/same as cloning? If so, which is better - cloning or transferring over through OneDrive? Thank you again for your awesome tutorials, help, and, most importantly, fantastic patience with my noob questions!!
great questions, 1. cloning will copy bit per bit, EVERYTHING you have work or not working will still work or not work when you bring it over (minus some BIOS changes, but I will link up a video for you). 2. Singing into one drive is like having a D drive, a second drive, its just storage. So while your C drive had windows on it, you had a D drive that you installed the program on, C had windows, D has the program, you installed the program making entries into the OS on the C drive, onto the D drive. So OneDrive you can consider a D drive, an additional drive. If you do a fresh install on a C drive, that C drive has no idea that this D drive (One Drive) existed, then you bring it in, Cool, I have a D drive (OneDrive) now what? Your C drive has no idea what you did on the other C drive, there is no logical link. 3. When you install a program, it doesn't just dump files in a directory and call it a day. It makes TONS of entries in your Registry, it creates folders and files in your C:\Users\(your profile name) folder then also creates tons of folders/files in your C:\ProgramData (its hidden, but its there) and maybe C:\Program Files\ or c:\Program Files (x86) and tons of other potential places, maybe even a shortcut on your desktop. All of those have to link up. I hope this makes sense? As for the patience, we were all noobs once, everyone, learning is great and a willingness to learn is sooo much better, and I am so happy I could help you. Oh, careful with this video we are chatting on, while it does help, it is missing some info, you want to check out this video, it fills in gaps, I need to make a new video on it for desktops: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4BtdMcqwaFg.html Also, get on Windows 11, its much better and they will start charging you to stay on 10 soon.
You mention using Macrium to clone the drive. i just tried downloading it, and they have done away with the free version - now costs to use it. They do have a "free trial," but my experience with that is they hook you in, then charge you at the point you need the program the most. Can you recommend another good, free cloning program now that Macrium has gone to the "pay-to-use" business model? Thank you!! @@ThisBytesForYou
the free trial still works just fine, no issues what so ever, I used it later as well, you can use the software here, it will work the same, I just need to make a desktop version: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aHVCmkm67q8.html
Thanks for this video! Just installed a NVMe M.2 2TB into my machine and had to clone from the 500GB SATA and you made it VERY easy to follow. The download for Macrium is now slightly different as they are doing a 30day trial period and then asking for purchase but it still worked identically to your video. Thanks for being so concise, not skipping any small steps, and making it easy for all to understand.
Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. And while I hate to burst my own bubble haha, I did learn some things from others feedback, and because of that I made a follow up video, hopefully you did not overwrite your older drive and have 2 drives, but the new one might be good, check out this video, I go over somethings in the BIOS and the OS that I missed in this video, having to do with UEFI vs Legacy and MBR vs GPT, it can be the difference between your OS working and just bluescreening soon, it has happened to many, I hope it helps: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4BtdMcqwaFg.html
@@ThisBytesForYou Thanks for the reply. I did already wipe the old drive so hopefully I'm all good and dont run into any blue screening issues but I'll watch the video and see what I can learn. Luckily this is a newer computer to me and only really gaming at this time so if I had to wipe it and start over I could do so without much of an issue.
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Such a good breakdown. Thanks for making it seem like there was always a way to fix it so not to stress about it. Sorted my PC right out and I'm a complete novice.
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December 15th 2022. It works!!! Man! I read all the comments and they all were super positive. I must have watched this video 5 times to be sure I do everything step by step. You are most helpful. I appreciate you for helping to upgrade my 512gb laptop to 2tb. Definitely subbed. Thx
Thank you so much for your kind words and support my friend, it means the world to me and I am so very happy I could help you. I will be making a follow up to this one, with a few extra things I missed and adds ons to this, all still free too but I am thrilled that I could help you and you enjoyed it. As for positive, I really do try to be,... but you know how the internet can beat you down, sometimes it takes a toll on you but this comment changes so many things. Thanks again bud.
UPDATE: The New Macrium Reflect 8 Home version 8.0.7175. [UEFI] "MAY" require you to check or cycle an option "BOX" on the bottom right of the drive you wish to clone called "Copy selected partitions when I click 'Next'" in order for the "Copy Partitions" tab to be selectable. If you cycle that box the option to "Shrink or extend to fill the target disk" should become available in the "Copy Partitions" tab. If "Copy Partitions" option doesn't become selectable you'll still be able to make a clone, but only of the EXACT hard drive with the EXACT partition sizes. However on a positive note, the unused part of the new drive you can still use "Disk Manager" to letter the unused partition for that part of the drive and use it as a separate drive. Kinda like you used to have to do with large drives using FAT 32. Thanks for the video Bytes. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya
Go figure, a shame about Macrium, the software was so great and free for so long, but I guess people took advantage of it too much but you are good my friend, you can use AOMEI's free Partition Assistant Standard www.diskpart.com/free-partition-manager.html best wishes and blessing to you as well my friend, thank you.
@@ThisBytesForYou OK Good news! When I restarted my laptop a few times "&" started the Clone this drive, then clicked on the option "Copy selected partitions when I click 'Next'" on the bottom right of the drive to clone too, the "Copy Partitions" option became highlighted and worked great for me after that. Don't know if it updated or what. So I'm going to amend and update my initial comment to reflect that you may have to cycle that box to get that option to work. Thanks for the reply and if you remake the video or amend your description "SHOW MORE" tab you might mention that. Thanks for the great video, "Thumbs Up"! Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya
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@@MrDarkmuffin13 well, it can happen. I highly recommend when you get it work, disconnect the older drive and just keep it for a week or 2 and keep using your machine as regular, just in case.
Another great video. Taught me how to clone to an SSD on a HD only system and then use the new SSD as the boot drive and clean off the old HD as a data drive. Only thing I did beyond what is taught here is to move the Windows Libraries (like Pictures, Documents) from the Boot Drive to the new-old Data Drive.
good stuff my friend, so happy I could help. I am working on one very similar but for laptops, very very similar actually, along with a bunch of other videos behind it of course. i was supposed to have one launch today but so many things happened I could not release it
Thank you for showing me how to clean the disk in cmd. I Ran across this partitioning problem in the past and am so happy I have a simple way to fix it.
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Great video 2 years later and still works. I bought a pre built and ended up building a whole new pc instead, but wanted to use my old 1tb for extra memory
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Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. So very happy you found it useful enough to add as well ;)
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Great video!Do I need to format a new ssd that I am going to clone old ssd to?old one has some bad blocks etc.Can I clone it then just put it into the place of old one?thank you
I give you all the info in the video on whether you should format it, but if it has bad blocks, chances are the clone will not work. This video goes over how to create the Windows 11 thumb drive and how to install windows 11: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ayp8TksEtoY.html, this one shows you how to create the windows 10 thumb drive ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-C759I7DBXd8.html and this one how to install it ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sNtlz1EoWBM.html, if the clone does work, cloning will amplify issues, like bad sectors, I go over this in the video.
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can someone help? if i clone ssd to ssd with macrium reflect it progresses only 1% per 2 hours can anyone tell me why? old ssd= Kingston 447 GB New ssd= 1TB and i used other clone programes like AOMEI Backupper and the first clone it showed me the blue screen with recovery and the second time it just was stuck at 50% for 4 hours and i cancled it.
Try running in elevated mode on the older, original drive in a command prompt sfc /scannow, it might take a while but after you have fixed those issues try again
@@ThisBytesForYou Windows Resource Protection found corrupted files, some of which could not be repaired. For online repairs, see the CBS log file for details windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. Example C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For offline repairs See the log file specified by the /OFFLOGFILE flag for details.
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Sadly, I don't think Macrium is free anymore. They have a free 30 day trial only. I'll be giving this a try soon. My old 250gb MVNE.2 drive is too small to want to clone it to a new 1Tb MVNE.2 drive. If you have any other suggestions that would be much appreciated.
it is, just not the way I show you here, the trial is free, for 30 days and does everything I show you here. Give it a try. As for alternatives, I am looking myself so I can make a video with that to help people.
@@ThisBytesForYou - thank you so so much. I just watched the updated video with UEFI/GTP . Just awaiting my new nvme - Samsung 980 1 TB PCIe 3.0 for only £34.99 ($45 USD)
@@PaulRansonArt PERFECT, so happy you saw that, yes, update your BIOS, change the settings in the BIOS and change the settings in your OS to ensure you get a good clone. Wow, thats a great price too,.... I may get one hahah, thank you... hmmmm, that might segway into a video, thank you ;)
thanks bud,. I go over this with a few people in the comments, and because of everything I have learned, I made the follow up video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4BtdMcqwaFg.html
so very happy you enjoyed it my friend and it was able to help you. Anti-Virus... well, I really only use Windows Defender, the built in Anti-Virus and Malwarebytes, the free version and the biggest thing is common sense. Don't click on odd links, hover your mouse over them and it will tell you on the bottom left hand corner where it takes you without clicking on it, and other sites, try not to visit.
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Cheers my friend and always a pleasure, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.
yeah they changed it to 30 day trial but it still works like it does in this video, just for 30 days, but your clone will still work perfectly after that so it is still free, since you don't have to pay for those 30 days and thanks so much for your kind words.
@@ThisBytesForYou For now. Given that they phased out Free, how long before they remove Clone Disk from the Trial like most of the other majors (Acronis, Easeus, Aomei, etc.) have done.
@@reefhound9902 well, take advantage of it while you can, because who knows what tomorrow brings right... this truly confuses me, like why would you bother to think that, we can't control it, just use it while you can.
@@ThisBytesForYou The average user will need to do this once every few years. They aren't going to keep daily tabs on what the software manufacturer is doing. They are going to learn it, rely on it, find themselves in need 2 years from now, and discover it doesn't work at the moment they most need it to work.
Thanks for the tutorial! I plan on upgrading my laptop SSD soon and I was looking up a bunch of tutorials and many people in their comments said that it didn't work or they lost their data. But this tutorial luckily isn't like the others but also straightforward. Thanks!
Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. But actually, this one is specifically for laptops and will show you something in the BIOS and Windows that you should check and or change, that this video did not show, i will make one specifically for desktops soon, but I hope this helps more: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aHVCmkm67q8.html
Thanks a million. I was about to install Windows again on my New SSD , and reinstall every program, but your video saved me All that hassle. So easy and worked perfectly. Great and informative video.
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This worked perfectly for me thanks! - I used it to clone my laptops teeny win10 ssd to a bigger one attached via sata to usb cable, took only 26 mins :)
Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. So there are 2 things (maybe 3, I forget) that I HIGHLY recommend you do, that I didn't realize when I made this video, in the BIOS and in Windows, setting changes, check out this video : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4BtdMcqwaFg.html, it's at 8:32 but you can watch the entire video if you like ;)
Thank you so much for this tutorial. As of Dec 21, 2022, still working flawlessly. It takes only 15 minutes for me and it copied all of my files same as my old ssd. Thanks again.
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Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. I will hopefully make a video on that soon, stay tuned my friend, I have a lot on my plate.
Doesnt work for me. Looking at the drive on MR it seems as though windows has split on two drives? Like, a windows icon on one my C drive main partition and then windows icons on a secondary drive on two small partitions?
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Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. It is possible to clone only the C drive, but it won't work afterwards. When you install Windows, it creates the main partition where you install everything and the part you see, the C drive. Then it creates it will create a EFI partition as your boat loader and finally a recovery partition. The recovery partition holds the recovery information to allow you to repair the drive and so on, its ONLY about 450 Megs, that is incredibly tiny. The EFI partition, even smaller, is a boot loader and stores files necessary to allow you to select what partition you load into and is used by the firmware/BIOS (Windows Boot Manager). If you want your drive to work afterwards, to work and boot like it did before, clone it all.
Sorted... Just stripped laptop down and swapped the drive. Works perfect and boots up in about 30 seconds now. Well pleased. Thank you loads. x x x. lol
Hey followed everything but of course I’m just that guy and I have an issue. After cloning my disk from ssd to ssd m.2 i go to bios to change the boot up but my cloned m.2 doesn’t show up. It still shows the original ssd. What am I doing wrong?
thank you so much for your video. after spending a few hours on other videos and getting nowhere I was able to follow yours and get everything I needed to do.
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I think one clone to the new Drive is enough as long as it's the new drive and new boot options with it.. My Hard drive from my HDD in my laptop just began to show S.M.A.R.T bad status and blue screen critical service errors every now and then. I'm glad there's a step by step video like this. You earned my subscription
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Question: Is it required to have pre-installed OS on the destination drive in order to boot? Or is it okay to go ahead and clone without an OS on the destination drive? I'm assuming that the OS is also copied from the old one
Hello, I have a question. I am trying to clone my grandfathers old computer HDD C drive (running windows 10) to his new PC D HDD that is empty (C drive running windows 11). After that process is done will I be able to boot from the clone without any problems?
Yes but there could be more to it, So that I can help, please list the manufacturer and exact model number of the following components: 1. Motherboard - manufacturer and exact model number 2. CPU - manufacturer and exact model number 3. M.2 - Manufacturer and exact model number, if you have any, and how many you have in this system 4. Regular SSD - Manufacturer and exact model number, if you have any, and how many you have in this system 5. Hard Drive - Manufacturer and exact model number, if you have any, and how many you have in this system 6. Was this a clean install of Windows that you upgraded at some point, for example, you had Windows 7 but upgraded to 10 or 11 or did you install 11 and are cloning 11.
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After running the failing drive through the Windows 10 check disk I did say it made some fixes. After that I tried cloning. I was able to clone the failing HD. The software in your video didn't work. It kept saying the destination drive was to small which it was but the data that would be going from the source was less than the destination drive. I clicked Copy to have it size the shrink,expand but it kept saying the destination was to small. I ended up using what I have used in the past and that's Acronics which I received free when I purchased a SSD. I did have a couple areas that could not be copied. I just skipped them. The new drive booted right into Windows. Now I can breath for a while. I want to pick up a SSD for this computer because its still to slow. I will clone it to the SSD and see how it plays. I was also finally able to get the Windows 10 install on a USB Flash Drive. I was only able to get it on a Windows 10 computer to create the USB Flash Drive.
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Yes, but you want to watch this video instead, there are 3 things I go over in the BIOS and Windows that fix some issues I had in the other video, you dont need a cloner, but it was to show how to do it on a laptop: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aHVCmkm67q8.html
I've tried this,,, my current C drive is a samung evo 850 and is MBR,,, my new M.2 is GPT. I can clone disk to the M.2 but it won't boot. Should I just re partition the M.2 as an MBR disk? Or convert the current MBR C disk to a GPT disk?
Hello, Bytes. I had a question, if you still look at the comments, I'm not sure. I have 2 identical sized drives, I'm upgrading from SSD to NVME SSD. When I cloned the drive, it says 930gb free instead of 931GB free of my original SSD. Is there a reason for the size difference? I tried to trouble shoot by looking for "extend volume" but it doesn't give me this option.
I always reply. If you have 10, 20, 100 drives all the same size, they all might report different capacities, not by a lot, usually a few megs, sometimes a gig or 2 (depending on the size of the drive). Also, before you commit to the clone, go back to the original, and I teach you 3 things here (aside from the clone machine) that I didn't know in the video you are watching now, that will help you: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4BtdMcqwaFg.html
@@ThisBytesForYou This clone video actually completely messed everything up in my computer and I had to reinstall windows from a usb media creation tool. It was a complete mess. I lost a bunch of important photos too. It was my fault though as I didn't check to see if it would boot from the clone since it booted originally when I made it my main boot drive from the bios. It then would give me a 0xe00000 or something of the sort and said the drive needed to be recovered. I'll probably let a professional deal with it next time if I ever need to do it again.
hmmm, thats odd, but not out of this world. When I made the video, I cloned about 10 times, if windows is 100% its all good. Almost 200K views and almost 4K likes its helped a lot of people BUT not everyone has the same config. Some people are cloning in a non EUFI environment, from MBR to GPT (a drive over 2TB needs GPT) and different windows corruptions can happen, and if you scroll down,l you will find a few, some I could help some I couldn't, but all these stories is why I made the other video I pointed you to to help you get windows ready to clone. I wish you would have reached out first I could have help, but for all these reasons is why I started the video by stating that I dont like cloning, because it makes a small problem large, and other issues, sadly it seems you found the problem. The 000000e error typically is due to a bad BCD, which could have potentially recovered with the install media. As for the original drive, if you run recovery software, you can recover LOTS of your data, as long as you haven't written too much data, I done it many times. I used this software: www.stellarinfo.com/windows-data-recovery-professional.php?gclid=CjwKCAjwrdmhBhBBEiwA4Hx5g5FUkCwbrgPELidn7EnqYFwQVQLBhu5qvk9j0UP9hJYy4jLq5g5eRRoCeFwQAvD_BwE I reviewed it years ago and it was AWESOME back then I dont think its free though, I don't know of any free recovery software but a clean install is soooooooo much better than a clone. You can do it next time if you need to, just don't delete the original before you know its clear, I recommend a week, which would have been several shutdowns and startups and reboots, my recommendation and trying to save you money.
@@ThisBytesForYou I will give it a try and see if it can scan the images I'm looking for. I did see that it was possibly a BCD issue, but I have no idea how to do that, I tried running some code but I ran into issues that they were problems from windows 10 days and it was in MBR. I hope I can recover the pictures. Update you soon after the deep scan process.
let me know, Its great software, the problem I had with it was that it was in no real order, so you have to reorganize it, but its better than losing everything. Good luck my friend.
OK perfect, if you can, remove the older drive, just for now, and set the new drive as the first in the boot priority as the windows image manager, some BIOS are a bit awkward in the way they work with that since UEFI and the Boot Manager are integrated.
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Great video and easy to follow! Sadly after doing this to move my ADATA SATA SSD to my new Samsung 980 Pro M.2, I got an inaccessible boot drive error. I followed each step precisely. What could be the issue here?
Thanks bud, I have found actually this week as to why this could be occurring, but I need to still do a lot of research as to how to correct it, its something I can't currently replicate because of my workload. Your original drive is in MBR, and when you copied it over, you wen to a larger drive in GPT, then also, you install windows on MBR and as Legacy instead of UEFI and the other possibility is that you are on an upgrade, meaning you upgraded from 7 to 10 and cloned after, or 7 to 11 and so on. All this wrapped up, are attributing to the reason towards the beginning of the video I mentioned I didn't recommend cloning. If you boot to a Hiren Boot CD to use Windows PE, or the windows install PE mode, or easier windows 10 or 11 install drive to repair boot issues, you can repair the error, but I don't have the specifics right now, and I am rushing to finish a review and start 3 others.. Regardless, its band aids to a problem, always the best solution is to do a fresh install to get all the performance you want. If on 10, this video will help you make a new windows 10 install disk (its always best to have the latest) : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-C759I7DBXd8.html If 11, this video will help you make a new windows 11 install disk: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ayp8TksEtoY.html This video will help you after you install Windows: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8JuC_Dpm6-c.html I hope this helps and thanks so much for your kind words.
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Is it required to clone your drive if you just want to have another ssd for extra storage? Or is it only important when you want to change your main drive?
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have you tried to remove the hard drive you cleared, then select the new drive as the boot drive, or maybe select windows boot manager from the new drive in the BIOS?
I changed my SSD boot priority to first in bios before cleaning my hard drive. My hard drive no longer appears as a boot option. It seems like the windows files are corrupt, but I can't seem to get to the command prompt to fix them or recover my windows key.
@@ethaneisenhauer2185 you can boot to your windows install media, if you dont have it anymore you can make it with this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-C759I7DBXd8.html
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@@ThisBytesForYou I was able to get the free one... A question: My original thought was to clone my C drive. But, the C drive I would clone is from an AMD system. My new PC will be Intel. I have read that for various reasons, mostly incorrect drivers I assume, that this is not recommended. What are your thoughts on this?
So much software charges to transfer OS. I was able to do it easily, for free, with this software. Thanks for making it easy to understand, and not wasting my time with old buggy software that doesn't work anymore.
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Thanks for the video! I have a question. I'm trying to migrate from 1 SATA SSD to another (basically need a bigger space). Now do I need to initialize the new SSD first? If so, do I also need to assign it a drive letter? Or do I not need to do that and Macrium will do that automatically? Thanks!
@@ThisBytesForYou Hi again. So I tried cloning my disk, but for some reason the sizes are always a bit off, it's almost like not all files are copied. Then the new disk wouldn't boot either. I kept trying and always get similar results (the final size somehow varied all the time, but the end result was that it wouldn't boot). Do you know why this is? Thanks again.
@@fitzgeraldlimisella4393 so, did you watch the video? Watch this video at 8:32 and do what I show you in the BIOS and OS, so it will help you, do this on the original drive you are imaging, but if you do it the way I show you on both videos, it will work.
Thank you so much for this video! I was attempting to upgrade from a 500gb Samsung SSD to a 2TB Crucial SSD and neither the Samsung Magician nor the Crucial program were working. Public service right here.
always a pleasure my friend, but PLEASE watch this video, you are going to a 2TB, from a 500Gig, are you on GPT already and is your BIOS set to UEFI? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4BtdMcqwaFg.html this has 2 settings that you NEED to do if you are on MBR and Legacy BIOS
In a lenovo, you have OEM activation, so you shouldn't need a key, and it would be best to do a clean install of windows, BUT you can clone if you don't feel comfortable, custom build pc or not, a clean install is always the best. I was a product development engineer for Alienware, then years later after Dell bought them as well, then Velocity Micro, now I am an IT Manager, so I can tell you, a clean install is always the best on a custom built or OEM computer. Let me know if you would like to see some videos.
@@ThisBytesForYou Ya probably all true. Debating how many drivers I will have to track down or other software vs windows 11 just handling it. What problems have you seen with cloning?
problems being if you have any issues on the original, they come over to the clone, and usually they are amplified. Also, the longer you have a windows install, any version, the slower it becomes overtime. Because I am looking always performance, I reformat about once a month, the very least, once every 6 months to keep everything peppy. I have all the keys I need, all in one place as well as executables and drivers ready (I download everything before I do a wipe and reload), it takes me all about 2 hours from start to finish, this includes windows update since I always use the latest Media creation tool, I have videos on all this I can provide to make it easier for you.
Hi sir i just recieved my m.2 gen 4 ssd and currently i'm running my system on samsung 860 evo sata ssd...i saw some videos and they said that don't clone windows to your new ssd it will not give full performance 🤔 is it true or i should clone my sata to m.2 ?
As I mentioned in the video, I am not a fan of cloning, any issue you have on the drive, is multiplied, you will "ALWAYS" get better performance out of a clean install of windows. Would you like a video on how to make the windows 11 or 10 media and then how to install windows? I have them all here.
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@@SuccessisTheGoal the 90's is when the transition between IDE and SATA happened, SATA cables are easy to find, here is a few on my amazon affiliate link: geni.us/1up1jYg, let me know if those are the cables for your drive
If your C drive was failing (and have no desire to keep it after the cloning) and you followed the first part about getting the original HD properly cloned, can you simply shut down your PC & then remove the old drive & connect the "new" non-ssd old style hard drive to the "old" cable and boot up, or would you need to go into disk management prior to shutting down & change the "new" clone drive designation to "C", before rebooting again for the "new" C drive to reboot?
I used the software you instructed to use and cloned a 1TB HDD to a 1TB SSD but the C drive on the original drive says Healthy (boot, ...etc.) and on the SSD it says only Healthy (Basic Data Partition). Is that right or ok? If install that drice will the machine startup and run?
I highly recommend before you get rid of the old os watch this video and do what I show you jn the bios and os quick, more stuff I learned afterwards. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4BtdMcqwaFg.html
So I bought a brand new 1tb ssd 870 and I have already an 860 ssd 250gb running windows 10 and all my files in it. I want to transfer windows 10 to this new 1 tb ssd. I connected my new ssd to my pc. When I go there 1:52 to disk management a pop up comes out and says: "you must initilize a disk before logical disk manager can access it". I think it refers to my new ssd... So your 2 drives showed in the video has these 2 blue lines but mine the second drive has a black line I guess because it's not initilized as it says... My question is: should I initilize it first before doing this that you showed in the video? or I can do this without initilizing it and have no problem? Can you answer me as soon as possible please? I would really appriciated!
The black line means its unallocated, and you need to initialize it, by using disk management, on the left where it says Disk 1 Basic, blah blah blah, where it shows your unallocated one, right click on that box and select initialize it (it doesn't say initialize, but something along those lines). Unallocated means its never been written too, no partition, right click on the black line box, create a new GPT partition.
I still don't know how you copied the data from you existing drive to the new ssd? I mean how do you plugin your ssd to be able to copy the data without opening the laptop's back?
Well I didn't use that scenario on this video but you can use video as well as the one I am posting to help you ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ENS3RhjaS9M.html
awesome my friend, so happy I could help you, I HIGHLY recommend, you watch this video as well, at least until the 6:35 mark. there are things I didn't know when I originally made this video, that I add into the new video, things in the BIOS and for the OS, if you don't do them, you run the risk of your clone not working later, here is the video, I hope it helps you as well: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aHVCmkm67q8.html
Macrium has limitations for what I do. I have multiple operating systems. It used to copy everything and I could restore when needed at will. Now when I try to restore, it tells me I have too many primary partitions and won't let me restore without having to delete and lose everything on one of the partitions in order to restore. I can save all the partitions fine, but when it comes to restoring it halts and forces me to delete something in order to restore. Kind of too late at that point. So annoying that something can save everything, but won't restore it.
Well, this is the BASIC version, you can't expect it to do everything. Though I can't say that I would know that any software would do this as it would be forced to right to the Boot Configuration Data interpreter and depending on how each operating system would write to it, that's a VERY custom task. What software are you using that can do this?
@@ThisBytesForYou yup did everything it clone my drive but I guess the 4 blue boxes is the os system did not move … should just re try or can I click a option To move the os
I have my windows on my ssd but i recently bought a m.2 ssd, so just doing the steps in this video I can move my windows 10pro without anyproblems for old ssd to new one?
yup, sadly I know, they changed it January 1st, I can't control that but they give you a 30 trial and it still does everything I show you in this video... so it is still kind of free
