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.

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

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.

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?

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

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