Cloning integrated HDD to transfer to another integrated HDD?

[Craterloads]

Really struggling with this, got two oldish laptops with integrated SSDs (non removable). I made the mistake of wiping one to do a fresh install and has been a complete nightmare (drivers / updates wont bore you but isnt happening)

So the other one which is working i was hoping to be able to clone it, drivers, partitions, recovery sections etc as is and somehow put back on to the laptop i wiped.

Is this possible?

 

[LuckyBenski]

Are the laptops identical? There's a good chance, yes. It can't hurt to try it!

 

[Armageus]

Yes - as long as you have a USB hard drive or some other way of storing an image file, you could use marcium reflect.

On the working laptop, you'd use Macrium to create an image of the whole hard drive, saving the image file to a USB hard drive.

Then boot Macrium on the target laptop from a bootable USB stick (made using Macrium's media creator option), and restore the image file from the USB hard drive.

 

[Craterloads]

Are the laptops identical? There's a good chance, yes. It can't hurt to try it!

yes

 

[Craterloads]

Yes - as long as you have a USB hard drive or some other way of storing an image file, you could use marcium reflect.

On the working laptop, you'd use Macrium to create an image of the whole hard drive, saving the image file to a USB hard drive.

Then boot Macrium on the target laptop from a bootable USB stick (made using Macrium's media creator option), and restore the image file from the USB hard drive.

Thanks ill give that a go, is it free software?

 

[Armageus]

Thanks ill give that a go, is it free software?

It was (recently they've decided to stop offering the free version), but you can still pick up the Free version from a number of mirror sites e.g.

Macrium Reflect Free

Disk image, file backup and disk cloning for Windows.

www.techspot.com

It's our business to protect your data

Complete data security is more important than ever. Whether protecting your home or business PCs, Macrium has a range of reliable solutions for you.

www.macrium.com

 

[Craterloads]

Than

It was (recently they've decided to stop offering the free version), but you can still pick up the Free version from a number of mirror sites e.g.

Macrium Reflect Free

Disk image, file backup and disk cloning for Windows.

www.techspot.com

It's our business to protect your data

Complete data security is more important than ever. Whether protecting your home or business PCs, Macrium has a range of reliable solutions for you.

www.macrium.com

Thanks for the help, worked a treat!