Macrium Reflect Cloning Guide

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

reflux · 8 May 2015 at 13:55

wazza300 said:
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

Yup, connected only the new SSD and it wouldn't work. Not sure why but EaseUS did the trick.

Windows was relatively easy to reactivate, I just had to ring a number and put in a lot of other numbers. Took a while but it worked.

Had an issue with Steam last night... kept saying it had to be online to update when I tried to start it from the new drive. Tried lots of fixes but it turned out to just need 'Run as Administrator' selected. Whoops.

Qdos · 9 Jun 2015 at 11:00

Has anyone used this to clone a drive with a Windows & Linux partition? Be interested to know if it will pick up GRUB and copy it across.

wazza300 · 12 Jun 2015 at 17:37

only way to know is to clone it and see

LoadsaMoney · 20 Jun 2015 at 00:23

Just updated to v6 of this, wish i hadn't though, as looks bloody terrible now

KIA · 20 Jun 2015 at 16:27

LoadsaMoney said:
Just updated to v6 of this, wish i hadn't though, as looks bloody terrible now

What's wrong?

LoadsaMoney · 21 Jun 2015 at 01:10

Its all blue and white, looked better before.

Gone from this.

To this.

fergiet · 21 Jun 2015 at 12:53

Macrium is a great free bit of software. Just cloned to a new Samsung 850 EVO and it all went fine.
I use it to image all my disks for backup too.

pilsburypie · 6 Jul 2015 at 22:31

reflux said:
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.

Why would windows need reactivating if this is an exact clone? Will other programs need reactivating/serials re-entered?

wazza300 · 6 Jul 2015 at 22:44

Windows detects hardware change,being the ssd,I don't think it affects any programs

saharmohamedali · 25 Jul 2015 at 19:10

It took a lot longer than 6 mins when cloning over 900GB from a 1TB Sammy F3 to a 3TB WD Black A great little program none the less!

MrMD · 17 Aug 2015 at 18:59

I planning on doin this tonite/2moz(cloning 120GB ssd boot drive to a new 240gb SSD)

In win8.1 will i be able to just format the original 120gb ssd drive easily using disk manager?The last time i tried formatting a random drive with a version of windows installed on it i ran into problems(and i cant remember how i got round it at the time lol)

wazza300 · 17 Aug 2015 at 19:00

Yeah it should format it just fine

MrMD · 17 Aug 2015 at 19:05

Nice one,cheers m8

Frenzy · 24 Jan 2016 at 15:49

Just used this again, hassle free.

nam · 4 Feb 2016 at 10:13

roadie said:
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.

Do you have to backup the hidden partitions as well if cloning for deploying the OS image to a new blank SSD ?

KIA · 4 Feb 2016 at 15:26

nam said:
Do you have to backup the hidden partitions as well if cloning for deploying the OS image to a new blank SSD ?

Yes.