How to Clone Your System\Windows Drive for Free Using DiskGenius
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2024
- See Also: Clone Your Windows/Systems Drive: bit.ly/3yNIlpe
If you have a need to clone or make a bootable copy of your Windows drive to either move everything to a larger drive or replace a failing hard drive, you can easily clone your system drive to a new one using the free DiskGenius tool. This program also has many other disk management tools that you can take advantage of.
Here is a link to download the free DiskGenius software.
www.diskgenius.com/
Here is a link to a video for software that will allow you to rearrange your hard drive partitions so you can extend your new drive to use all of the space if you run into that problem when cloning to a larger drive.
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Check out this software as well. Clone Your Windows/Systems Drive: bit.ly/3yNIlpe
Works perfectly. Thank you for spending the time to make this helpful video!!
Just thank you my friend because of you my 3 days of frustration with macrium software ended and I could clone my os
Excellent, simple, no-nonsense instructional vid! Thank you.
Thanks a lot! Tech noobie here but this guide was very easy and fast. Thank you. OS Migration also transferred every file on the disk. Hope it's the same for everyone.
thank you for making this quick and easy!
i'm a brazilian so it was very annoying search, for a software that solves my problem and because of you i did, thanks to the video
Whats annoying, you are indeed looking for something for free are you not, aha no to retract we all been there we just dont go telling everyone else, Lol.
This worked great!! Thanks for the great video.
super clear and concise, thank you!
Direct and easy to follow
Thank u sooo much i downloaded windows on my slower ssd so u saved me !
nice!
Can I create a backup system image similar to Macrium Reflect?
Hi if anyone can help, would this program be used to blast multiple hard drives with the same image at once. I have 10 hotswapple bay drives and I wanna use 1 image to apply to all drives at once so I can do other things during this process
Im currently using macrium reflect but the issue is that can only do 1by1 and not automatically or at the very least select multiple drives and do one after another you have to manually be present to do so every operation
If anyone can help with a good software that can automate or select multiple drives to image at once or at least after one is done do another process
Thank you
does this software also support shrinking? like from 500 gb drives to 256 gb drives.
Just wanted to know if we use OS Migration , does only OS files or will it include other programs that was installed on the old drive?
I think it will just do the OS. I use the clone function and it brings everything. Including browser tabs 😮
Lmao thanks bud 💯 definitely took longer was moving 2tb 😂
How long did that take?
Thanks. I successfully cloned my OS from 1TB HDD to 128GB SSD. The problem is that the boot sequence was not changed after the cloning. It will still boot on HDD..
To use the clone drive. You can physically remove or set a password on the original drive and skip the authentication on boot.
so if i fit an SSD into a PC that currently uses a HDD to boot the OS can i use this to shift it to the SSD for better performance?
Yes, you should see improved performance, especially in boot up time.
Terimakasih, berhasil. Semua file yang ada di drive C ikut tersalin semua, bukan hanya Windows nya saja.
I had problems with the disk clone option. The cloned disk wouldn't boot, giving me a 0xc000000e error code and blue screen. None of the F1 / F8 options worked. I used the original disc to boot and tried to repair the cloned disc, but this didn't work and I had to give up. Eventually, I re-cloned the source disc using the automated boot option. Maybe that's the key to success? I don't know. It's working okay now, despite a warning message about a file that wasn't copied.
My advice would be to stick to the method described here.
i dont have boot from new hard drive
i dont get the hot migration option and im trying to go from a hdd to ssd, i have the ssd formatted and its blank. when i follow prompts i only get WinPE option. and it wont give me the copying bar and asks to restart system right away/ Any tips you could give me to help?
I have never experienced that issue so it's hard to say. There are many other free cloning tools you can try.
ruclips.net/p/PLwdwMLbf_qdYtCnCQyoavA2WBZnD5aYM4
Sir do you use this with actual physical devices? Not a virtual machine? Thanks
I did the video with a VM but you can use it on a physical machine.
Doing this on my Dell laptop. Boot drive successfully cloned to new nvme drive. Swapped drives, doesn't boot! Think it has to do with the drive letter as after the migration it automatically gave the new drive E! How do i solve this?
Change letter in disk genius
sooo lets say i tried to do this before watching this video i didnt know the target disk had to be empty it had EVERYTHING on it. now my 1tb ssd doesnt show up with all my stuff. it just shows 2 duplicate 120gb hard drives. is there anyway to fix this
i am dealing with this to
when i tried this its says failed to create snapshot for SYSTEM and Windows RE Tools should i continue or what i dont wanna mess anything up someone help me
Can you start over? It shouldn't mess anything up on the source drive if it doesn't complete successfully.
There are many other tools you can use to try and clone your drive.
ruclips.net/p/PLwdwMLbf_qdYtCnCQyoavA2WBZnD5aYM4
Hi can this programe make 2 or more HDD into 1 HDD?
I don't think so.
I'm no IT expert (by a long shot); but, if was cloning to a drive that was larger than both the source drives combined, I'd try cloning the one with the OS; &, just copying the files over from the other drive. That way, I'd have the originals of each drive, in case something went wrong at some point. Do further research on your own, though!!!
So when everything is done and OS is installed on SSD, what is the best way to unnistall OS, which is on the old HDD ?
If you plan on using the old drive for storage etc., you can simply format it and you will then have a blank drive that you can use for whatever you like.
@@OnlineComputerTips What's the best format to use for "dinosaur" laptops - which I'm limited to due to fire-related destitution?...
@@NTF-zb9wi I assume you mean an older laptop but the same method from the video should work assuming you have a way for both drives to be seen by the software.
After migration we remove disk 1 and just open computer with disk 2
Yes but you may have to go into your BIOS\UEFI and change the boot order if it doesn't recognize it as the main drive but it should if you remove the original.
What drive do you download install the program on ? It says to " take care" please do not install this application to the partition where you want to recover files otherwise files will be destroyed and cant be recovered forever. I have 1 only drive now - ill be installing my 1t drive before I do this-
If you are cloning your Windows drive to the new 1TB drive, you would install it on Windows on the original drive. I think that recovery message is if you are using the program to recover deleted files.
@@OnlineComputerTips okay I clone my 256 HD = to my 2 TB HD - its only seeing 256 worth of space on the new 2TB HD -
@@JCSFPress It most likely made the new partition based on the size of your original 256GB drive. You should be able to extend it in Windows Disk Management but if not then try NIUBI partition manager. These videos will give you an idea of how it works.
ruclips.net/video/xWtaNbx6nJ0/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/8aIMfMDCOgA/видео.html
@@OnlineComputerTips Can I send you a screenshot showing you what is looks like ?
@@JCSFPress Sure, send it to help at onlinecomputertips.com. Obviously change the formatting of the email to use @.
So I tried following this and now windows doesn't boot, what do I do? My original drive still boots, but my cloned one does not.
Edit: Nevermind I figured it out.
What did you have to fix?
@@purpleplanet128 It had to do with the drive letter not being set to C
@RoboticalHalloween I ended up having no issues (other than the wait lol), but thank you
@@RoboticalHalloween It doesn't let me change my old C drive letter which is on the HDD. It says the parameter is incorrect. And there is no C option for the SSD.
@@GatsuKS You have to change it through diskgenius, windows won't let you do it directly.
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Which links?
@@OnlineComputerTips The one for the tool, but the issue was with my computer 🙂 I downloaded the tool, and ran it, but failed right at the end. I may need to boot into WinPe and try again.
@@g2D1 There are many other cloning tools you can try if this one doesnt work for you.
ruclips.net/p/PLwdwMLbf_qdYtCnCQyoavA2WBZnD5aYM4