Cloning an Intel SSD

gbgt2 · 15 Mar 2012 at 16:11

Hi, I currently have an 80GB Intel X25-M as my primary drive (so windows is installed on it) and I'm looking at replacing it with a 240GB Intel 520. What's the best way to clone everything (including the registry values) to the new drive? Also if I do this will windows think the drive is only 80GB? (so I need to do something afterwards so it detects the full 240GB?) It's set to AHCI if that makes any difference.

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wazza300 · 15 Mar 2012 at 16:22

paragon migrate will clone it,connect new ssd boot up into windows with current ssd and clone current ssd to new 240 ssd,can do it in windows while you web browse,then once done connect 240ssd unplug 80gb ssd and boot from it

Zarf · 15 Mar 2012 at 18:39

Most reliable way i've found is good old DD. Stick both drives in, fire up a linux live cd/usb, open gparted or another disk utility that'll give you the drive device names (sda, sdb etc) and then run

Code:

dd if=/dev/<source> of=/dev/<dest> bs=100M conv=noerror,sync

Once it's done, Shutdown, remove source dive and boot into windows like nothing happened. You'll then need to open an administrative cmd window, run diskpart, list disks, select disk <new drive>, extend to make the partition fill the new drive.

gbgt2 · 15 Mar 2012 at 18:47

Ok thanks

jbloggs · 15 Mar 2012 at 23:24

EaseUS Disk Copy

shahpor · 16 Mar 2012 at 15:53

Is Acronis any good at cloning?

wazza300 · 16 Mar 2012 at 16:02

yes but its longer,threw up an error when i tiried cloning my ssd to hdd,but tested with hdd to hdd and it works fine

paragon migrate is much quicker,and clones ssd's/hdd's without issue

lurkio · 16 Mar 2012 at 16:45

wazza300 said:
yes but its longer,threw up an error when i tiried cloning my ssd to hdd,but tested with hdd to hdd and it works fine

paragon migrate is much quicker,and clones ssd's/hdd's without issue

Which version of acronis were you using to try SSD to HD ?

Because I did this very thing the other day without any problems