Ho 250 g8 ssd mirror?

Wing-Man · 30 Dec 2021 at 12:08

My laptop as a 250gb nvme drive and a 1tb hdd, if I was to buy a 1tb ssd can I make the hdd mirror it?

Laptop HP 250 G8 I3 Gen11

Snapshot · 30 Dec 2021 at 18:25

Do you mean actively mirror it while in use or to copy everything from HDD to SSD then replace the HDD with the SSD?

Wing-Man · 30 Dec 2021 at 18:47

Snapshot said:
Do you mean actively mirror it while in use or to copy everything from HDD to SSD then replace the HDD with the SSD?

Yer set up like a actively mirror or something that would be k up the full drive say ones a week but without me having to remember to do it myself

Snapshot · 31 Dec 2021 at 07:23

That's easy enough to do using Robocopy and Task Scheduler. I have a batch file that runs every night to mirror my data drive to another inside the PC and to my NAS. Let me know if you'd like the details.

Wing-Man · 1 Jan 2022 at 19:07

So I'm assuming Robocopy can be set to just copy a drive as soon as the program is run? And the batch file just opens the program?

Snapshot · 2 Jan 2022 at 08:00

Robocopy is a command line program and needs a lot of parameters to make it work. It is possible to make it copy a whole drive in one go but it can get hung up on system folders like the recycle bin so I have a line in the batch file for each top-level folder. This a sample line from one of my batch files:

c:\windows\syswow64\robocopy e:\videos g:\videos *.* /COPY:dAT /DCOPY:T /FFT /MIR /R:5 /W:5 /MT /NP /LOG:videos.log

Open a command prompt, type in robocopy /help, work through the options and tell me whether I should have /NOCOPY and /J in the above line.

Wing-Man · 3 Jan 2022 at 14:25

Am going be honest I want something a little more plug and play.
With less problems and a much easier user interface.

I'm now looking at macrium reflect. If you pay to unlock all the features you can set a day and time and it will just clone the drive