Macrium Reflect Cloning Guide

wazza300 · 30 Jan 2014 at 20:41

Good cloning!!!

I thought id post a guide on how to clone your ssd/hdd using the free 30 day trial of macrium reflect

first disconnect any additional ssd/hdd's and just have the drive you want to clone and clone to connected

then download macrium reflect/install it and load it up

http://www.macrium.com/

next step,is to load macrium reflect then point it to the source drive you want to clone and choose the destination drive you want to clone to

for me I was cloning a corsair force gt 60gb to a Samsung 840 evo 250gb ssd

then click next

once the drives are confirmed and your happy then click finish to start the cloning

cloning in progress........

all it took was 6 minutes 57 seconds

now your done cloning you can shutdown the pc,attach the drives you disconnected beforehand then boot into the bios and set the newly cloned ssd as the first boot device

save and exit...

then boot into windows and look in disk manager (start/right click my computer/manage/storage/disk management)

macrium reflect will make an exact copy including the size of the drive/partition so now I have a 60gb partition on the new 250gb ssd because my source ssd was 60gb in size

now in disk manager you'll have to right click on the unused/unallocated space on the newly cloned ssd and expand it...

and voila

we have back our missing space

and that's it,job done

you can install latest rst drivers if you want to,they generally improve speed slightly over what Microsoft installs

I could have used Samsung's own data migration/cloning tool but for that you have to have atleast one Samsung ssd,macrium will work on any brand ssd/mechanical hdd

I wouldn't have had to expand the partition either with Samsung migration tool or if I used the paid version of paragon migrate software,i don't know if the paid version of macrium would let you skip resizing/expanding but its not hard to do,it only took a few seconds

wazza300 · 10 Mar 2014 at 15:35

Samsung's own data migration tool works well too

should come on the cd with the ssd,works the same way

wazza300 · 11 Mar 2014 at 00:57

llamadal said:
i'm hoping someone might be able to provide feedback on this.

I have a load of work stuff on my pc, installed office/custom software/logins...etc..

anyway if i clone and install to a new SSD (from m500 to 840 evo) will is copy everything with 100% accuracy or will I lose any odd bits?

normally I do just a fresh install and be done with it but i'm not in a position to do that now.

yes

you always have your original hdd/install to re clone if it doesn't work for any reason but yeah ive yet to have a clone attempt fail,samsungs own data migration tool might be a better option

wazza300 · 28 Mar 2014 at 23:21

You cloned it on a different pc? It could have messed up the boot record

You might be able to salvage it by booting from the windows dvd and doing a startup repair

Also make sure you set the ssd as first boot device in the BIOS

wazza300 · 28 Mar 2014 at 23:31

Try again,it should work fine,once done unplug old ssd,install newly cloned one and pop in BIOS to set the ssd as first boot device

If it doesn't work you can try samsungs own data migration tool

wazza300 · 28 Mar 2014 at 23:44

Yh that's true,

wazza300 · 16 Jul 2014 at 21:09

it should do,cant see any reason why not

wazza300 · 17 Jul 2014 at 21:20

it should clone the drives you want cloning just fine,no need to remove any others

just pick the source and destination drives

a clone is exactly that,an exact bootable copy of the original ssd/hdd all that's different is the drive itself,all paths/folders will be exact copy of original

wazza300 · 25 Aug 2014 at 19:37

xKratosx said:
Thanks for a great guide, I've just tried this cloning my C drive to the new SSD but unfortunately when I try to boot from the SSD it just says "reboot and select proper boot device" - any recommendations please? Thanks

did you set the new ssd as first boot device in the bios? or put it to #1 position

and did you remove all other hdd's apart from the two your cloning to and from?

if the above fails try booting from windows disc and do a startup repair

wazza300 · 26 Aug 2014 at 10:49

Did you try a startup repair? Usually that fixes it

wazza300 · 26 Nov 2014 at 13:49

yh it will clone it fine

wazza300 · 28 Nov 2014 at 21:53

Yh it works a treat,as long as all the data can fit onto your new ssd

wazza300 · 20 Jan 2015 at 16:57

yeah

windows still on your hdd you mean? yeah sure

just remember to set the ssd as first boot device in bios

wazza300 · 26 Jan 2015 at 15:19

yes if its not showing up in windows or macrium reflect

wazza300 · 28 Feb 2015 at 16:16

Yeah it does,just go in windows disc manager and expand the 118gb partition to fill the ssd

wazza300 · 5 Mar 2015 at 00:09

I've cloned to an HDD just fine but not one in an enclosure.as long as macrium picks up the drive then I can't see why you wouldn't be able to clone to and from it

wazza300 · 22 Mar 2015 at 12:39

If it on the disk your cloning then yes,it should clone the entire disk,I think it also gives you the option to tick the partitions you want to clone

wazza300 · 22 Mar 2015 at 19:54

yeah but you have to pay for them

only other free one I know of is Samsung's data migration tool but they only work if you have atleast one Samsung drive

other good ones but paid are,acronis and paragon migrate

wazza300 · 28 Mar 2015 at 12:37

according to that screenshot it shouldn't but its best to backup those partitions if you can just to be on the safe side,then go ahead with the clone

wazza300 · 7 May 2015 at 22:06

It should have worked fine,did you set your newly cloned ssd as first boot device in BIOS after cloning?

With Samsung ssd's you can use Samsung data migration tool,it does the same job

And yh windows will need reactivating,best to use magic jellybean software beforehand to get find your windows code,then write it down and start the cloning process