Macrium Reflect Cloning Guide

KIA · 28 Feb 2015 at 18:04

miceormen said:
The clone works like a charm, but I did it wrong.

My normal drive c: is a 128gb Samsung 830 (118gb formatted)

My new drive is a 250gb Samsung 850 (232gb formatted)

Macrium seems to have cloned the 118gb to the 232gb drive and now the 232gb is only showing 118gb of space.

This is what I get for getting a job and using wyse boxes every day.. I've become a noob again = (

For future reference: http://www.macrium.com/help/v5/How_to/Restore/Restore_Partitions_with_Resize_and_Reorder.htm

miceormen · 28 Feb 2015 at 22:07

wazza300 said:
Yeah it does,just go in windows disc manager and expand the 118gb partition to fill the ssd

KIA said:
For future reference: http://www.macrium.com/help/v5/How_to/Restore/Restore_Partitions_with_Resize_and_Reorder.htm

Thanks guys. I did go into Disk Management but it wouldn't let me extend the partitions for some reason.

In a panick I went back to the old drive, booted in with that and formatted the EVO, then started again using Samsung's Data Migration software. A warning to people using it, the Migration software doesn't appear until you go through the motions of connecting without the drive the first time - so I just went to Sammy's website and installed the Migration software separately. This worked a treat... although I have to say the EVO 850 doesn't appear to boot / do anything quicker than the old 830 did.

pepp77 · 4 Mar 2015 at 23:38

Any one cloned an ssd to a normal hdd. I want to re-utilise my ssd in another build but keep the current machine active just with a slower drive. I would also be cloning to the hdd whilst it's in a sub enclosure?

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

kmetek · 5 Mar 2015 at 07:41

How about cloning program who makes exact copy of older hdd + no need to resize unllocated?

KIA · 5 Mar 2015 at 10:32

kmetek said:
How about cloning program who makes exact copy of older hdd + no need to resize unllocated?

Macrium...

Mp4 · 13 Mar 2015 at 07:20

just downloaded this in hoping to clone my C: and get incompatible disk selected

Seems to hate 3.63TB drives.(external HDD's)

kmetek · 22 Mar 2015 at 06:31

what about system reserved part on primary disk? does macrium clone that part too?

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

kmetek · 22 Mar 2015 at 17:29

any other good cloning programs?

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

tiredwarlord · 28 Mar 2015 at 12:33

Hi,

I have a simple question about cloning. As you can see in the attached screenshot, I want to clone my Windows partition (a new SSD). For the destination drive I just want to use my "old" Windows partition (on a simple HDD).
I already clicked "Copy selected partitions" and afterwards I can see in the destination drive how Macrium Reflect will clone my drive.

My question is: As long as I have engough space on the destination drive, does Macrium not delete the other partition on the destination drive during the cloning process (as you can see with the letters: W,D and E) ?

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

tiredwarlord · 30 Mar 2015 at 14:28

wazza300 said:
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

I didn't have enough space for an additional backup of those partitions - so I thought: no risk no fun :-D

but afterwards it works great and my partitions have not been deleted.

Thanks!

DragonQ · 30 Mar 2015 at 16:45

I googled which freeware cloning software to use when moving to a bigger SSD and it came down to this one and Paragon's equivalent. Both seem very similar but I went with Paragon's because I've used their software before and liked it.

Copied the SSD to an image file, then copied that image file back to the new SSD. Worked perfectly, including making the main partition bigger, but it'd be quicker if a direct copy was possible in the free edition.

bledd · 17 Apr 2015 at 08:30

Just updated my licence to version 6.

Crikey it's fast!

Loads up in no time and a 15GB system backup image took under 5 minutes to take.

Dervious · 17 Apr 2015 at 11:37

I`ve used this for a few years now, lots of features, fairly simple to use and free.

http://www.todo-backup.com/products/home/free-backup-software.htm

KIA · 18 Apr 2015 at 13:30

bledd. said:
Loads up in no time and a 15GB system backup image took under 5 minutes to take.

A before and after would be of more use.

roadie · 28 Apr 2015 at 14:58

Dervious said:
I`ve used this for a few years now, lots of features, fairly simple to use and free.

http://www.todo-backup.com/products/home/free-backup-software.htm

I just used this to move my games from a 320Gb spinning drive to a 500Gb Crucial BX100 SSD. The cloning has seemed to go well and I used Disk Management tool to extend the partition and change drive letters.

Good stuff.

reflux · 7 May 2015 at 21:54

This evening I tried to clone my 128GB Samsung 830 to my new 500GB Samsung 850. Macrum didn't seem to work properly - despite following all the steps in the thread, the PC wouldn't boot and told me "Insert boot device and press enter" or somesuch. So I tried EaseUS and that worked fine, although it took a bit longer.

Once Windows was up and running again it told me it needed reactivating (sigh) so I had to spend a few minutes on the phone to Microsoft but it all went through OK.

Anyways, all seems to be working nicely now which is ace.