Cloning between 2 drives

[Daaaveee]

Hi all,

Got a bit of an issue with my new build, the M.2 SSD from my laptop is too long for my new motherboard as it only accepts up to 80mm and mine is 110mm. I forgot to check! So now I'm looking to see how I can copy drives between each other. Our old systems are as follows:

Wifes Q6600 tower with a 250gb Samsung SSD
My i7 laptop with 250gb M.2 SSD and 1TB 2.5" HDD

The idea was for the Q6600 rig to be retired so therefore I would transfer my M.2 and 2.5" HDD from laptop to the new build and move the 250gb SSD from the Q6600 rig to the laptop. As the M.2 is too big, this now needs to stay in the laptop, and my wifes Samsung SSD will be used in my new build instead along with the 1TB HDD.

Now I need to figure out how to swap the data on the M.2 and Samsung SSD, is it possible to simply clone the data on each bootable drive between each other? Basically so they behave the same as before but the data on the other drive.

 

[Daaaveee]

Thanks Boogieman.

In that case I guess I will bite the bullet and just nuke both the SSD and M.2 with fresh windows installs once I've saved the important files elsewhere.

I'm just hesitant to do it as last time I did I forgot my wife's WoW screenshot folder and lost 6 years of memories for her!

Lets hope I don't miss anything this time!

 

[Daaaveee]

Good point, theres no need to wipe that one as its not going anywhere. Well, I've already removed it but it will be going back where it was so no issues there, just take my things off it and put my wifes on to it.

Will it get confused with me removing the secondary 1TB HDD? As I believe there are some things like my documents and steam/origin directory redirected to that to save space on the SSD.

Its good that your gf has some interest in games I was debating on whether or not to preorder the HTC Vive but as soon as I showed my wife some videos of it she was asking why I had waited so long to order one!