Macrium Reflect Cloning Guide

wazza300 · 30 Jan 2014 at 20:41

Good cloning!!!

I thought id post a guide on how to clone your ssd/hdd using the free 30 day trial of macrium reflect

first disconnect any additional ssd/hdd's and just have the drive you want to clone and clone to connected

then download macrium reflect/install it and load it up

http://www.macrium.com/

next step,is to load macrium reflect then point it to the source drive you want to clone and choose the destination drive you want to clone to

for me I was cloning a corsair force gt 60gb to a Samsung 840 evo 250gb ssd

then click next

once the drives are confirmed and your happy then click finish to start the cloning

cloning in progress........

all it took was 6 minutes 57 seconds

now your done cloning you can shutdown the pc,attach the drives you disconnected beforehand then boot into the bios and set the newly cloned ssd as the first boot device

save and exit...

then boot into windows and look in disk manager (start/right click my computer/manage/storage/disk management)

macrium reflect will make an exact copy including the size of the drive/partition so now I have a 60gb partition on the new 250gb ssd because my source ssd was 60gb in size

now in disk manager you'll have to right click on the unused/unallocated space on the newly cloned ssd and expand it...

and voila

we have back our missing space

and that's it,job done

you can install latest rst drivers if you want to,they generally improve speed slightly over what Microsoft installs

I could have used Samsung's own data migration/cloning tool but for that you have to have atleast one Samsung ssd,macrium will work on any brand ssd/mechanical hdd

I wouldn't have had to expand the partition either with Samsung migration tool or if I used the paid version of paragon migrate software,i don't know if the paid version of macrium would let you skip resizing/expanding but its not hard to do,it only took a few seconds

El Jimben · 11 Feb 2014 at 13:18

It took a lot longer than 6 mins when cloning over 900GB from a 1TB Sammy F3 to a 3TB WD Black

A great little program none the less!

FredFlint · 12 Feb 2014 at 11:14

Will be doing mine in my laptop when my new SSD is delivered.

Stelly · 12 Feb 2014 at 11:18

Nice, you can ask Reflect to resize the partition mate when doing the clone in 'clone partition properties' simpler then the windows way as well

Well done on the guide though

Stelly

Paul11 · 12 Feb 2014 at 11:52

thank you, will be doing this on the weekend to upgrade my SSD

Stelly · 12 Feb 2014 at 12:35

This is how you resize the clone:

Stelly

Terminal_Boy · 12 Feb 2014 at 12:43

Lovely little application and saved me 99% of the effort involved cloning my HDD to an M500.

I was so impressed, I purchased it.

bledd · 12 Feb 2014 at 20:54

Stelly, the partition properties was greyed out for me last time I tried that.

What enables / disables it?

Stelly · 13 Feb 2014 at 09:45

bledd. said:
Stelly, the partition properties was greyed out for me last time I tried that.

What enables / disables it?

You have to select the partition that you want to resize by clicking on it (blue line should appear under it), and then select the properties link.

Let me know if it works mate

Stelly

bledd · 13 Feb 2014 at 19:12

Does this only appear when you do clone?

Or can you do it from a macrium image file too?

Stelly · 14 Feb 2014 at 08:38

bledd. said:
Does this only appear when you do clone?

Or can you do it from a macrium image file too?

Its on the drag and drop screen when you are setting it up after dragging the partition over it should have a blue line under it.... that means its selected.

Stelly

ultim · 9 Mar 2014 at 19:12

Thank you for the guide. Worked for me.

cwgk91 · 9 Mar 2014 at 21:26

will def have to try this when my evo arrives. How does it compare to the seagate version?

Hagar · 10 Mar 2014 at 10:15

Macrium reflect is free for non commercial use.

Stelly · 10 Mar 2014 at 10:17

cwgk91 said:
will def have to try this when my evo arrives. How does it compare to the seagate version?

Its a lot better in my opinion having tried them both, Macrium Reflect has a lot more features and actually software support!

nkata said:
Macrium reflect is free for non commercial use.

Yup very much correct... and there is not that many differences between the full and free versions

Stelly

cwgk91 · 10 Mar 2014 at 13:19

Brill, will try it out tomorrow when the evo arrives

wazza300 · 10 Mar 2014 at 15:35

Samsung's own data migration tool works well too

should come on the cd with the ssd,works the same way

llamadal · 10 Mar 2014 at 20:21

i'm hoping someone might be able to provide feedback on this.

I have a load of work stuff on my pc, installed office/custom software/logins...etc..

anyway if i clone and install to a new SSD (from m500 to 840 evo) will is copy everything with 100% accuracy or will I lose any odd bits?

normally I do just a fresh install and be done with it but i'm not in a position to do that now.

Dervious · 10 Mar 2014 at 23:51

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wazza300 · 11 Mar 2014 at 00:57

llamadal said:
i'm hoping someone might be able to provide feedback on this.

I have a load of work stuff on my pc, installed office/custom software/logins...etc..

anyway if i clone and install to a new SSD (from m500 to 840 evo) will is copy everything with 100% accuracy or will I lose any odd bits?

normally I do just a fresh install and be done with it but i'm not in a position to do that now.

yes

you always have your original hdd/install to re clone if it doesn't work for any reason but yeah ive yet to have a clone attempt fail,samsungs own data migration tool might be a better option