Cloning

Hello. A few months ago I got really frustrated by my dead slow laptop, which I use for all my school work and decided to upgrade to an M2. SSD as I knew the source of the problem was my HDD. Both Drives are 1 TB so I decided to go with cloning as it's the quickest solution because I needed to...

I currently have a 1 TB SATA Solid State Hybrid Drive with 8 GB flash acceleration cache in my HP Sprout 23-s020 computer. I was thinking of getting a Western Digital 2TB WD Blue 3D NAND Internal PC SSD 2.5". Would I need the SATA to USB Cable - USB 3.0 to 2.5” SATA III Hard Drive Adapter for...

Hi! I make alot of copies of my master slave. I use clonezilla, plug my master to a usb3.0 with an adapter, and connect a slave disk to a usb3.0 with a adapter, and clonezilla in the last usb port. This takes alot of time and it not efficient enough. I clone device to device. I make make 3-4...

Can anyone tell me if cloning a Samsung Consumer SSD(Win 7 O/S + Data) to a Samsung Enterprise SSD will cause any unforseen issues or will it even work. The Consumer SSD is 120 GB's and the Enterprise is 480 GB's..

Title. I got a new 500 Gig SSD (870 EVO) and I am here to ask help on how to transfer my existing OS + Files from my current 250 GB SSD (850 EVO) both are SATA. I don't want to spend a lot of time re-installing drivers etc so I just want to copy my files and Windows as it is to my new SSD

Hi, Yesterday I cloned the full contents of my HDD (including a Windows and a Ubuntu partition) to my new SSD (Samsung 860 EVO). I can now successfully boot into Ubuntu from the SSD, but when trying to boot into Windows (when my HDD is not connected anymore), I get a blue screen displaying...

Using Macrium's program and I'm stuck. I have two identical hard drives and want to clone disk 1 (source) to disk 2 (target) but don't know if I have to enlarge or reduce any partitions. Can anyone help here?

After months and months of frustration, I've finally decided to turn to this forum so that I can get some help. I have an Acer E5-575-33BM running Windows 10 on a 1TB hard drive, my problem is that I've trying to migrate my system on to my new 250GB SSD with no luck. I've tried cloning (and...

Bought a new m.2 NVME SSD, successfully cloned my hard drive into the new SSD using Macrium Reflect software. But it doesn't show up in the BIOS settings. I can still see and access the SSD in file explorer, device manager. But when I went to change the boot order in the BIOS, I couldn't see...

I ordered an M.2 SSD (1TB). Current windows installation is on a 2TB HDD, but only takes up ~540GB. Can I clone OS to the SSD, and will it destroy files? Will Cloning destroy my personal files (pictures, videos, etc.) and can I clone the OS from the 2TB HDD to the 1TB SSD since the original...

I have Paragon Hard Disk Manager but I've never used it. I have a sata SSD that is my current boot drive. I just installed a WD blue M.2 Drive and want to migrate/clone the OS drive to it but Ive never used Paragon for that. In the past I just used a physical cloning dock. How do I go about...

Hi, I'm looking to upgrade my current SSD (Samsung 850 Evo) for Windows installation to Evo 970 Plus. I usually use Acronis True Image to do the job, but when I read the guide I noticed this prerequisite: "Source and target disks must have equal logical sector size. Cloning to a disk with a...

Hello everyone! Recently, I've been looking for some type of software that allows me to create a customized version of a Linux distro along with my settings and tweaks made to it. In my case for multiple computers, what I've been currently doing has been a two-step process: #1 - I deploy a...

I turned my PC on yesterday and left the room, when I came back it prompted me to hit a key to cancel Chkdsk, I was too late and it already started doing it's thing. It has been about 14 hours now and it is only at 18% progress with an ETA of 65 hours and increasing. I haven't really had...

So I just bought an SSD for my pc and I have a terabyte HDD that my pc has been using for a couple of years now. I want to reinstall windows on my SSD along with some other programs but I don't have the parts to clone over my harddrive right now. So I was wondering if I install windows on my SSD...

Hi! I got a Crucial bx500 240 GB ssd recently and I am having some trouble in figuring out how to clone my c drive from my HDD which is 1 TB in total to the ssd. The C drive is around 200 GB and I have got 3 more partitions other than that. All of my programs, except few games are in the c...

Hey All, Basically I noticed my boot time had started increasing as well as one of the drives starting to become tempermental so I decided to do a rehaul of my PC. I started off by getting a Samsung 860 EVO 500GB which I wanted to clone my Windows 10 OS onto as I had heard about the ultra fast...

I have a 1TB SSD, Samsung Evo 860 if it matters. My OS, Win 10 Education with WSL (Windows Subsystem in Linux(2.0 I think) and my steam library are currently installed to this drive. I'm awaiting a new 500GB Samsung Evo 860 SSD to use as my boot drive and a new WD Blue SSD. I'm wanting to...

so i recently got a brand new samsung m.2 970 evo plus SSD to replace my old 7200 rpm Hdd. i sucessfully installed it into my motherboard and used Samsungs data migration to clone my hdd onto the new ssd. now here comes the problem, if i boot up the system, the bios automatically reverts to old...

Hello everyone! I'm creating a Linux Mint golden system image with my apps and settings already configured for deployment to multiple computers. I'll be using the Clonezilla software to do this, unless there is software out there that is more effective and practical for this purpose. Are there...

I installed SSD into my friends laptop(Lenovo Ideapad 15-ibd), but I put it into optical drive bay, then cloned the contents of HDD onto the SSD, after that switched them. (It only has one slot for storage device, expect drive bay.) The laptop uses Windows 7 proffesional. The OS from SSD boots...

Hi all! I'm planning a complicated bit of computer surgery. I have (among other things) two 2TB SSDs, one as my boot drive and one one for games. The gaming SSD is nearly full, so the idea is to clone the relatively small Windows installation and accessories (all data on that drive, in all...

So, I have the following setup on my PC: a 240gb kingston ssd (which has Win 10 installed and is SATA) and a 1tb hdd for general storage. I'm about to buy a m.2 1tb ssd, which I intend to use as a replacement for the HDD (due to a few reasons, I don't want to keep the HDD). So, I found out...

So I just bought a 2TB SSD and want to transfer the data from my current drives which are a 144GB SSD (OS boot drive) and a 1 TB HDD (storage drive). I would like to combine these two drives into one and save the 144GB SSD as a back up drive and have the new 2TB drive as the boot drive and storage.

So when I try and use a adapter to clone my hard drive over it says that there is no disk installed. I know that this is incorrect because I replaced my existing hard drive with the new one and it works fine and dandy. I am using the star tech adapter.

I have a 7 year old 1TB HDD that is probably on its way out. (Running slow) I have a new 500gb SSD arriving today. I already recently upgraded from windows 7 to 10 on the old HDD. Apparently there is free software by EaseUS that should allow me to clone across windows 10. But it costs money...

If I clone an HDD that doesn't contain my OS, but contains other programs, to another HDD, will I be able to use said programs without having to reinstall them again? Does the cloning process preserve file associations and program settings? Or will I just have to reinstall all the programs I had...

Got a new SSD Samsung V-NAND 860 PRO 1TB when formatted and unformatted is incompatable due to the sector size, this has been on multiple different services e.g. Macrium Reflect and MiniTool. I really don't want to pay for other services. Anyone know how to fix this just ask for more specific...

Hi I use an Acer Aspire 5 A515-51G-50UW running Windows 10. I have forgotten the password to my BIOS (which I don't even recollect setting in the first place). I have bought an M.2 SSD into which I would like to migrate the OS using Clonezilla. However, that requires BIOS access (I know that the...

Im getting a 1tb sata ssd soon. I'm gonna use it for mostly for storing games and mods for them. Is it safe to clone the HDD i have my games on currently to the SSD without problems? A few of the games are heavily modded. Was also curious since cloning works by copying the exact sectors of the...

Hello all, haven't posted in a while since usually am able to figure these types of things on my own, yet this has me stumped. So, I recently cloned my 500 gb 960 evo to a 1TB 970 EVO using a pcie NVME adapter, and got the new one working fine. However, I want to try to format the old one so i...

I just got a new SSD and am wanting to boot my OS off of it. I downloaded EaseUS Todo Backup but when I try to do a system clone I get a message reading, "Not enough unallocated space on the target disk. To make sure the boot ability of target disk, please delete partitions on there first." My...

View: https://i.imgur.com/42gpEcR.jpg View: https://i.imgur.com/W9RdsON.png View: https://i.imgur.com/bUgheA4.png View: https://i.imgur.com/wPFOChu.png So I am looking into upgrading to an ssd. Did some research and had a few questions. Is that slot in the picture a pcie slot? How can I...

So pretty much what the title says. I've managed to clone it but now my 1tb nvme says its a 222gb ssd which is what I just cloned from. What am I doing wrong? Kinda nooby at this stuff. https://ibb.co/7CmVTV7 Here's a picture.

I am trying to clone a 250gb SSD HyperX to a Evo 840 1TB SSD. I have tried two programs so far, EaseUS ToDo Backup and Macrium. Both times whenever I boot up with the new SSD it tells me it's missing ntldr. What is up?

I cloned my SSD primary, 232mb drive to a 1tb mechanical drive. Once the cloning succeeded, the large drive became 232mb. This was okay but now that i've crashed another large hard drive, i'm needing the space. Instead of cloning again, i thought i'd make an image this time. My question is, if...

I have a personal Dell XPS 9370 laptop that sits at my workplace more often than at home. A bit paranoid with security and so hate leaving my personal laptop overnight at work but don’t want to have to carry it back and forth every day. I know there’s encryption, etc for this but my question is...

I have a 1TB HDD with EVERYTHING on it, games, images, apps, ect. I want to move Windows 10 and only certain games on to my new 240gb ssd. I want to keep everything else on the HDD but only those certain games and windows onto the new SSD without losing anything. How would i do this.

Hi, I upgraded a 100GB flash storage card in a Toshiba laptop to a 500GB one. Then backed up the data to a hard drive and used Windows System Image Backup to transfer the data (which created the system + recovery + an EFI partition) to the new flash storage. Now I find the partition has the...

I have bought a Intel 660p 1TB M.2 and after formating the drive to be the E drive on Windows 10, I used Intel's Data Migration Software to clone my SSD (Crucial MX300 525GB) to my newly installed M.2. After cloning the drive, I went into BIOS and changed which drive boots first, with the M.2...