Recent content by Zorozephyr09

So, I was succesfully able to swap my SSDs and transfer the data from my old SSD to the new one. The new SSD, also partitioned in 4-5 sections like my old 256GB SSD, now has 905GB of usable storage, which is ample enough considering the extra partitioning work that had to be done before I could...

Hey USAFRet, so I think I successfully verified that my rescue usb works, as I managed to get my laptop to restart and boot up to show only a window of the Macrium program after choosing a "use a backup drive" option from a restart menu. It was prompting me to choose a location to restore from...

So to test the rescue USB, do I need to access the BIOS at all? I still don't know what the procedure for testing it is.

For rebooting how do I go about doing that? Is it something I do from the advanced settings of the laptop? Do I have to choose an option before powering my system off to initiate the reboot from the BIOS? My os is Windows 10 and I'm still more used to using my windows 7 desktop so I'm not so...

Ok, thanks for that info. About the USB rescue drive again, how should I test whether or not it works? Thanks!

One other thing; when I'm accessing my external harddrive manually from file explorer, the size of the macrium image file on it only appears as 100GB. Does this make sense, considering the amount of space I have currently taken up on my 256 GB SSD is around 164GB? Thanks

How would I test the rescue USB to make sure it works? When I click on the drive in my file explorer when its conected I can see that there are new files named Boot, Drivers, EFI, etc. Is that sufficient?

Awesome, thanks so much USAFvet! I have proceeded with the image backup with the parameters you gave me and it is currently running creating the image onto my external hard drive. I'll come back and update you once that's finished. Once this is done I can begin switching out the physical SSDs...

Hey USAFVet, sorry but I have another question regarding the Macrium image creation process; when I select the "image this disk" option in the macrium program, the first window asks me to specify a location for the image to go. Now I want the image of my current SSD to go onto my easystore...

Hey USAFVet, so I got the Reflect software installed and have an empty usb device connected to be made into the rescue drive, I just had a question about an option the software is giving me before making the rescue flash drive; in the window where I select the drive to be my rescue media, I have...

Ok, thanks again. I'll either offload the files on this current flash drive or just get one thats larger as I would like to have another separate flash drive that isn't dedicated as a recovery drive. Thanks for the help thus far again. I'll get back to you once I have installed Macrium and...

I'm also backing up my laptop right now onto the external WD drive to make sure it's as updated as possible. Also, a sort of unrelated question: after each backup I've done onto my WD hard drive, there's always been several files that fail to be backed up. They're all file names I've never seen...

Ok, thanks for the clarification. Sorry in advance but I have a few more questions; first for the boot flash drive, I have an 8GB Sandisk ready for use, but its not completely empty (has some music and files from school on it). Is that ok? Second, for the backup, I read about a backup feature...

Ok, so a couple questions about the steps here; for the rescue CD/USB, what is that exactly? And how big should it be (what will I be storing on it for the procedure)? I've never made anything like that before, so I'm not sure what to do about that. For #6, how exactly do I go about booting up...

I do have a sufficiently sized external hard drive, yes, and besides the operating system (which I do not know how to back up to the drive), I believe I already have a back up of my laptop's data on it. When you say migration does that mean the same thing as drive cloning? Because from what I've...