which is the best cloning software?

[massa902]

Instead of spending hours setting up windows the way I like it I would just like to clone what is my current SSD to my new SSD, so which software should I use?

 

[ondra30]

HDClone Professional, it's shareware, but excellent piece of software. Hirens Boot CD feature many free alternatives that would do the job too, like CloneDisc, Rawcopy, XXClone, etc.

 

[PsyKhiqZero]

If your using windows 7 pro/ windows 8 pro it has built in disk image software.

 

[massa902]

If your using windows 7 pro/ windows 8 pro it has built in disk image software.

where would I find this?

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

"If your using windows 7 pro/ windows 8 pro it has built in disk image software"

Actually, all versions of Windows 7 have disk-imaging built-in (except maybe for Win7 Basic, don't know about that):

Control Panel > Backup & Restore

On the left, click "Create a system image"

It can't do direct disk-to-disk cloning though, you need third-party software for that.

 

[massa902]

"If your using windows 7 pro/ windows 8 pro it has built in disk image software"

Actually, all versions of Windows 7 have disk-imaging built-in (except maybe for Win7 Basic, don't know about that):

Control Panel > Backup & Restore

On the left, click "Create a system image"

It can't do direct disk-to-disk cloning though, you need third-party software for that.

I thought that was when you burn the image to disk/DVD???

 

[PsyKhiqZero]

Nope it puts it into a folder called windows disk image I think. then you just boot the windows DVD and restore it when needed. It's a pretty basic affair. I prefer Acronis True Image. The only thing about it. If you want to delete the folder, you have to do it through disk cleanup utility.

 

[massa902]

Nope it puts it into a folder called windows disk image I think. then you just boot the windows DVD and restore it when needed. It's a pretty basic affair. I prefer Acronis True Image. The only thing about it. If you want to delete the folder, you have to do it through disk cleanup utility.

I am thinking of using Arconis, does it copy from SSD to SSD. Aslo I head there can be complications when cloning to SSD's is htis true with Arconis or will it work? I could do a fresh reinstall But I don't really feel like doing that. I only do fresh reinstall when I need to. right now I have my OS on an older 60gb SSD and my new Sata 6gb/s is 120g. So there should no be a problem with space.

 

[PsyKhiqZero]

cloning is only a problem when you going from HDD to SSD and vice versa. Acronis can create a disk image as well as clone a disk to another disk.

 

[Y0GI]

When I installed my new SSD on the system in my sig, I used Samsung's "Data Migration" tool to clone my entire C: drive to the new SSD. It also automatically cloned the SRP (System Reserved Partition). Very easy to work with and my Windows installation works like it was a clean install. Highly recommended!

Yogi