Copying OS to new drive

CONSOLE_BUTCHER · 29 Dec 2015 at 13:42

just bought a 2tb samsung ssd , atm I have a 250gb Samsung, which has the OS and games on it and a 500gb crucial which just has games. they're both nearly full which is why I bought a new drive.

I'm going to put all the stuff onto the 2tb but what I need to know is will it be a straight copy or do I need anything else for the OS to copy properly?

thanks in advance (Y).

lude1962 · 29 Dec 2015 at 13:47

Macrium reflect

Terminal_Boy · 29 Dec 2015 at 13:53

lude1962 said:
Macrium reflect

This.

Direct clone of one drive to another.

At least 5 YT videos on how to do this despite it Reflect making it super simple and utterly painless.

CONSOLE_BUTCHER · 31 Dec 2015 at 14:46

just cloned the drive and now its on my 2tb ssd but the part that is cloned is roughly 250gb and the rest isn't allocated. I tried to extend the volume but it didn't work.

got a message saying " there isn't enough space available to complete this operation "

and when I change the boot order to boot from the 2tb a black screen comes up saying restart computer and insert boot media , or something similar.

what do I need to do to fix this?

scrivz69 · 31 Dec 2015 at 14:53

Just clone it with samsung magician.http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/global/html/support/downloads.html

ED209 · 31 Dec 2015 at 14:59

guide here for Magican reflect if you choose to go down that route

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18576917

CONSOLE_BUTCHER · 31 Dec 2015 at 16:11

scrivz69 said:
Just clone it with samsung magician.http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/global/html/support/downloads.html

job done, I would definitely recommend it over macrium. if it can work with any combo of hdd/ssd that is.

KIA · 31 Dec 2015 at 21:44

CONSOLE_BUTCHER said:
just cloned the drive and now its on my 2tb ssd but the part that is cloned is roughly 250gb and the rest isn't allocated. I tried to extend the volume but it didn't work.

got a message saying " there isn't enough space available to complete this operation "

and when I change the boot order to boot from the 2tb a black screen comes up saying restart computer and insert boot media , or something similar.

what do I need to do to fix this?

Missing System Reserved partition, most likely. It's easy to clone a single partition, instead of the entire drive.

You can resize partitions during the cloning process.