Cloning a drive.

Xein · 5 Aug 2018 at 12:04

Afternoon all,

I'm about to upgrade my computer and I'm wanting to clone my Windows drive to a new drive, however as the SSD was too small I moved the downloads/documents etc (folders) onto my secondary drive, if I clone my windows drive will the presets that I have arranged also follow or will it corrupt them in some way?

Thanks in advance.

chroniclard · 5 Aug 2018 at 12:07

Should be fine, I have just done this with Clonezilla, went from OS drive 120gb ssd to 500gb ssd.

Had to clone the whole drive, then resize the partition to use the extra space.

Xein · 5 Aug 2018 at 12:08

chroniclard said:
Should be fine, I have just done this with Clonezilla, went from OS drive 120gb ssd to 500gb ssd.

Had to clone the whole drive, then resize the partition to use the extra space.

Fantastic, thanks for the reply

chroniclard · 5 Aug 2018 at 12:10

One strange thing I had, I had to make the main partition smaller first(reduced it by 1 gb) then it recognised the rest of the space and I could resize the partition to full space.

Xein · 5 Aug 2018 at 12:16

chroniclard said:
One strange thing I had, I had to make the main partition smaller first(reduced it by 1 gb) then it recognised the rest of the space and I could resize the partition to full space.

Seems odd but I'll make sure to look out for it. Thanks for the heads-up.

andy_mk3 · 5 Aug 2018 at 12:18

Macrium Reflect will do this nicely

Xein · 5 Aug 2018 at 12:30

andy_mk3 said:
Macrium Reflect will do this nicely

Out of 5 what and how would you rate it? The one I've just come across is called EaseUS Disk Copy, and seems okay?

andy_mk3 · 5 Aug 2018 at 17:17

5/5! Macrium is totally free, very easy to use, full of features, has an awesome pre-boot environment. Really can't fault it!

mods1965 · 5 Aug 2018 at 19:19

If you are using Samsung drives, their free data migration software works well. I cloned my Samsung Evo 850 250GB to a Evo 970 500GB without any issues.

Xein · 6 Aug 2018 at 08:41

mods1965 said:
If you are using Samsung drives, their free data migration software works well. I cloned my Samsung Evo 850 250GB to a Evo 970 500GB without any issues.

Sadly I don't own any Samsung drives but thanks for the heads-up about it, definitely keep that in my for any future purchases

bledd · 6 Aug 2018 at 19:54

andy_mk3 said:
5/5! Macrium is totally free, very easy to use, full of features, has an awesome pre-boot environment. Really can't fault it!

Paid for my version, they are a UK based company

Rannoch · 6 Aug 2018 at 20:03

I have the server and desktop Macrium versions. I sleep easier.

Xein · 6 Aug 2018 at 21:06

Vargas said:
I have the server and desktop Macrium versions. I sleep easier.

Glad for the further reassurance with Macrium, will definitely be going forward with that (once new parts arrive). Cheers for the replies

andy_mk3 · 6 Aug 2018 at 21:07

bledd said:
Paid for my version, they are a UK based company

Making me feel bad, I might have to buy it next time I need it

APM · 6 Aug 2018 at 22:48

Vargas said:
I have the server and desktop Macrium versions. I sleep easier.

Have to agree with this.

mattyfez · 7 Aug 2018 at 11:21

Yeh macrium just takes care of partition sizes automatically assuming the total data on the source drive is less than the size of the destination drive.

Danny091 · 7 Aug 2018 at 11:38

I used the EaseUS Todo Backup free version to move from a larger drive to a smaller drive the other day. Moving from a normal HDD to SSD for a neighbours laptop. As long as the SSD is larger than the space your using it worked fine. Didn't have to play with partitions or anything.