Macrium Reflect questions

Draeger · 2 Apr 2018 at 19:43

Treated myself to a new Samsung Evo 500Gb SSD to use as my O/S drive. Currently my Windows install is sitting on a 120Gb OCZ drive. I would like to clone the drive over to my new 500Gb. I used Macrium Reflect before and it worked well but what I can't remember is this.......

Does it completely clone the old drive i.e. I have MS Office and Adobe CS6 installed on that drive, will it clone those so they work right off the bat when I fire up the new drive?

Take it there won't be any issues going from an OCZ Vertex to an Evo?

Minstadave · 2 Apr 2018 at 19:52

Yeah a full clone will leave all your software working fine

Draeger · 2 Apr 2018 at 20:11

Excellent, cheers dude. :cool:

ron3003 · 2 Apr 2018 at 21:02

Don't forget to go into disk management and extend the new drive or it'll still show as 120gb with unallocated space.

Draeger · 2 Apr 2018 at 21:10

So go into Windows Disc Management first with new drive hooked up and do that?

jpaul · 2 Apr 2018 at 22:06

was in a similar situation, but chose to create two partitions on the ssd, keeping the OS in a smaller area (making it easier to keep an image for restore) and keep 'user' data in another paritition, contemplated putting swap space in a third partition.
Did wonder if this would all impact wear levelling on the SSD though.

Cyclone · 3 Apr 2018 at 08:56

I used this software a month or so ago to clone my system drive to a 1tb ssd. Works a treat.

Draeger · 3 Apr 2018 at 09:40

What's the best/easiest way to achieve it, slave the new drive to a USB enclosure or physically fit it in the PC on a spare SATA channel?

jpaul · 3 Apr 2018 at 10:05

I've used an ICy box docking station via usb3/esata on a laptop, which I also exploit for faster backups .. but if you have a sata channel/box-space ... why not.

Minstadave · 3 Apr 2018 at 10:14

Draeger said:
What's the best/easiest way to achieve it, slave the new drive to a USB enclosure or physically fit it in the PC on a spare SATA channel?

Personally I would go to the trouble of installing it internally, less to go wrong.

bledd · 3 Apr 2018 at 15:15

What I do..

Take an image to NAS, disconnect old drive, connect new one, restore image.

groovesection · 5 Apr 2018 at 10:37

ron3003 said:
Don't forget to go into disk management and extend the new drive or it'll still show as 120gb with unallocated space.

Agreed, but leave around 10% unallocated for over-provisioning/wear levelling

Draeger · 5 Apr 2018 at 17:02

All sorted. Macrium took 13 mins to fully clone the entire 120Gb SSD complete with all my installed software. Only problem I had during the process was that I didn't see any option to extend the new 500 Gb Samsung Evo so I didn't do it. Lo and behold upon booting back up the 500Gb Evo was sat with a 112Gb partition on it and the rest was marked as 'Unallocated Space'. Doh!!!

So I just jumped into Windows Disc Management at that point and right-clicked the OS partition in the graphic in the lower half of the main area, and selected 'Extend Partition'. Sorted. :cool: