I need help, Cloning from a HDD to a Crucial SSD.

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I was using a Acronis True Image for Crucial (2015), I was trying to clone my HDD to my SSD but on he 5th partition something went wrong. It gave me a error message as followed, “Cloning failed”. I do not know what to do. Specs : SSD: MX500 500GB. HP Laptop 15-bs0xx
I am wondering if I should start from scratch (erase the partitions which are still on the SSD

Any help much appreciated.
 
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I'm in the clone camp.
Use Macrium (free version)
Here is the faq on cloning the disk
http://knowledgebase.macrium.com/display/KNOW/Cloning+a+disk

I prefer not to clone the OS. I simply backup all critical content from the OS drive(on the HDD) and then with the SSD connected, format the initial OS drive and reinstall the OS on the SSD. Cloning often fails for most and it ends up borking everything.

Start from scratch is my suggestion. Are you using a caddy for the SSD/HDD on your laptop?
 

I disagree. I've been using Acronis for about 10 years, and have cloned 200+ hard drives for myself and others and never had an issue (as long as the clone is being used for the same PC / hardware it came from)

When I build PC's for myself and co-workers (about 7k people where I work) I will install the OS, drivers and any software they will be using then create a backup image of the system. If something ever goes wrong to the point the OS needs a reinstall I will use the image to restore the system back to a clean, fresh install the day I built it.

On the negative side, if you create an image of an older install that may have malware, glitches or bugs on it you'll be installing that to the new drives as well.

As far as the OP is concerned, You don't need to clone every partition. Just the ones that are related to the OS.
 

You're not including all updates, ALL drivers, ALL personal preferences in settings and any software they may need / use. usually that can be ALOT more time consuming than the initial Windows install.
 


I'm in the clone camp.
Use Macrium (free version)
Here is the faq on cloning the disk
http://knowledgebase.macrium.com/display/KNOW/Cloning+a+disk

 
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