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    [SOLVED] How to clone OS drive to bootable external hard drive for install on new SSD?

    I believe I had the issue because for whatever reason, I was trying to create my external hard drive as a bootable/emergency disk instead of just a smaller thumb drive, not sure why my external was giving me issues, but I had a 16g thumb drive laying around and just used that instead and didn't...
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    [SOLVED] How to clone OS drive to bootable external hard drive for install on new SSD?

    Got it up and running. Thank you for your help. I guess it was confusing using a separate small USB device to use as the emergency disk. I ended up just saving the image to my other internal HD instead of separate external (not sure why I didn't think to do that before oops!) Took a few tries...
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    [SOLVED] How to clone OS drive to bootable external hard drive for install on new SSD?

    I do have an external USB hard drive with enough space. I went and installed Macrium Reflect and got to step 2 lol. My external, as well as internal for that matter are both GPT format which it looks like, at least the free version of Macrium, doesn't support. Should I try and reformat the...
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    [SOLVED] How to clone OS drive to bootable external hard drive for install on new SSD?

    Basically, I want to copy my C drive (128g M.2 SSD) which has my Windows OS, other files, etc. to my external USB hard drive and then restore that onto a new larger 1tb M.2 SSD I recently purchased. My motherboard only has one M.2 slot, I assume I could just copy my C drive (OS) to external...