for those who are thinking of doing this method, follow the steps EXACTLY, do not try to be smart and do something he didnt do like select the other bios option or literally anything, be smart and do not touch anything that does not need to be touch, do exactly 1:1 exactly the same thing he does otherwise you will have to go through 3 hours of troubleshooting and brain loss like me :)
I copied everything he did... wouldn't boot from my SSD no matter what I did. Just hooked up the HDD back and voila, works great with 3 minute load time. Unsure I want to invest 2 more hours for another shot at this clone from my super slow HDD.
@@stevegibsons9083 check if the C: is now at the SSD, once I did on mine, it automatically changed the "C:" root to the SSD, and the HDD became a secondary ( D: )
@@stevegibsons9083 there's something wrong with diskgenius and I can't tell what it is. They tell me everything is fine (both the partition tool of disk genius and on windows) but I cannot boot on the new HDD no matter what I do and if I try to fix it it tells me there is nothing on the disk.
I'm unable to do exactly what he did because there is no button to select a target disk. I can't clone to my C drive because my C drive is only a 500 gb internal SSD that has the OS installed on it.
I have spent a couple of weeks now trying to clone my drive as my hard drive was starting to fail. Finally a video that actually works. Thank you so much for sharing this, it was really really useful. I am eternally grateful.
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.
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.
Thank you so much for this video! I have been troubleshooting and wrangling finicky programs and tech for several hours now and this was a godsend. I can finally sleep with no worries!
I used trhe Hot Migration method and ended up with a non-botting system. I tried a couple of different things, but none of them worked. Then I decided to try the Reboot to WinPE and suddenly I had a working system again. Cloned a 256mb drive over to a 2 terrabyte drive and now have plenty of memory in my system.
Did everything you did, step by step, during the process the screen went black and then the PC restarted. It didn’t allow me to press the “complete” button, it just went black. When it restarted it came up with the blue screen. Now I’ve popped the old ssd drive back in and it doesn’t want to start.
My computer boot loader wouldn't recognize the new drive I had to go to tools UEFI bios boot. And change the boot to match the new drive and the same boot partition as the orignial. Then I shutdown the computer, replaced the drive and it worked.
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.
hello, thank you for your videos. currently I have a 128 GB SSD drive with Windows on it and I was planning to buy a new SSD with 500GB on it and replace the old one. Will it work if I connect the new SSD drive with a USB adapter to my computer and then use the clone software and folow your steps. Than open the computer and replace the old one with the new 500 GB cloned drive. Do I need to go in BIOS and change stetting or it will recognize my 500GB drive and reboot to windows?
I have not tried it with an external drive but if the program recognizes it then it should work. If your new drive is the same type as your old drive as in it uses the same connection, you should be able to just swap it out and boot it up. If it's a different type, then you may need to change the boot order if it doesn't find it. There are other cloning apps you can try too if this one doesn't work for you. ruclips.net/p/PLwdwMLbf_qdYtCnCQyoavA2WBZnD5aYM4
the partition part confuses me. i'm wanting to replace a 1TB ssd with a 2TB. the target drive is bigger so it should have free space after cloning, so why move the partition up to remove that free space?
If you leave the free space then it will be unallocated space on the drive and not part of the partition on the new drive. You can expand the new drive later to use the rest of it though.
@@MrTwister70 You can use the Windows Disk Management tool to extend your partition but if you have something like a system partition in between the C drive and the free space then you can use something like NIUBI Partition Editor to move it so you can extend it. onlinecomputertips.com/support-categories/hardware/862-move-partitions/
I have just used Disk Genius four times and it looks like it's a perfect clone of my internal laptop drive but it won't boot when I hit f11 off of that drive. Any suggestions? I chose OS/System Migration
Hi, question, when selecting os migration (system migration) - does it transfer everything on the c drive, including the operating system of course but also programs, file, and partitions? Also I notices you moved the destination drive partition slider all the way to the right, correct? To accommodate all the partitions on the source drive? thank you for this video and your reply!
Yes it copies everything on the drive along with the partitions. If the destination drive is larger than the source, you can have it use all of the space on the new drive, otherwise you will be left with unallocated space that you can then use for a new partition or extend your drive later.
@@OnlineComputerTips thanks! One other question, I bought a new Samsung 980 Pro SSD 1T as the new target drive - do I need to format /initialize it first? And, should I also check for any firmware updates before cloning to it?
@@OnlineComputerTips just getting back to this, I forgot to initialize it first, I just did the system migration with the new ssd connected via USB since there's only one M.2 slot - and it isn't recognized as bootable. Do you think it's because it wasn't initialized first? There weren't any errors and the size looks correct.
Just a quick Q, obvious the goal for these tend to be MOVING to another drive, but as it is called "OS Migration" the original nvme (in my case) isn't actually affected right? It is still fully functional after a migration as it always was? (In my situation, I had a drive I used diskgenius to backup [worked great] and now would like to make a clone of my windows just incase something goes wrong with that too, if I use OS Migration i can continue to use the original until the time that it becomes physically inoperable yes?)
Wouldn't cloning be an efficient way to... maybe once per year, backup everything, including system - - use of the disk could be a "just in case" thing? I'm not very tech savvy - - I like things that just work and being able to swap out a hard drive IF it fails, seems sensible to me, but there might be drawbacks I'm not aware of since it's not my field of expertise.
Sure you can clone everything to a different drive and then if the drive failed or Windows had a serious issue, you could swap the drive assuming it's the same type of drive where you can just replace the failed drive. The main problem is that all your PC and files will be as current as the date you cloned the drive but if you did it on a more frequent schedule you would be better off. Most people do system image backups to an external drive, and you can do those easier and even have your PC run them automatically on a schedule. Then you can restore whatever image you want if you have more than one using the backup software. This would be more for having a Windows issue rather than a hard drive failure even though you can restore your image to a new drive by installing Windows on it and then the backup program and restoring your image. Some programs allow you to make a boot ecovery disk that you can boot to and restore the image as well. ruclips.net/p/PLwdwMLbf_qdY8zjMLO-ToeNRvOOpAPano
Hey there, so I'm trying to transfer everything from my old HDD to a bigger new HDD using a USB docking port, I followed the steps as well but ended with a black/blue screen asking for diagnosis repair after putting the new HDD in since I thought I did everything right, did I do something wrong, I followed everything you did in the video
I've seen that happen with other cloning apps but I can't say why that is. You may want to try one of the many other disk cloning tools. ruclips.net/p/PLwdwMLbf_qdYtCnCQyoavA2WBZnD5aYM4
Do i need to remove all my other drives for this to work? Because after I did this it just kept booting from old drive and the new drive wasn't able to be selected as a boot drive. Should I remove my other drives and only keep the new drive and the windows drive in?
I would think you could change the boot order at startup or go into the BIOS and change it. If that doesn't work, maybe try unplugging the other drive and then if it boots to the new drive, go plug it back in and see what happens. Or if both drives use the same cable\port type on the motherboard, try swapping the cables.
If you don't plan on using the old drive then yes. If you plan on wiping to use as extra space, then you can leave it but you most likely will need to change your boot order in the BIOS\UEFI or you may be able to swap the SATA cable ports on the motherboard with the old one assuming you are using that type of connection.
I have a question. do i need to select all storage on the target disc? Also when i have a 1 TB storage ssd? Or will it fill up my whole SSD because then i have a problem.
Cloning the drive will wipe the entire destination disk so if you have important data on it then don't do it unless you backup your files elsewhere first.
@@Sam-rw7hj It depends how you do it. If you leave the default settings it should use as much space as the size of your source drives. Many cloning apps will allow you to take up all the extra space when cloning to a larger drive.
I’m building a new pc with new motherboard and swapping the sad. Windows will ask for reactivation with a motherboard change. Should I swap ssd before the mobo swap or after reactivating windows?
If the Windows license is tied to the motherboard (OEM) then you will most likely not be able to activate it without trying to get a hold of Microsoft. You can try to clone the drive first and see what it does when you install it in the new computer. You can try this and see if you can activate it. Open the activation window by pressing Windows key + R, then type slui.exe 4 and press Enter. Select your country and call the provided phone number. Follow the automated system prompts, entering the installation ID when prompted. You will receive a confirmation ID to enter in the activation window. I would also write down your license key just to have it on hand if you don't have it already. ruclips.net/video/kiJkfyR9pAg/видео.html
@@OnlineComputerTips thank you for the quick and informative reply. I’ll clone the ssd first then install the cloned one in the new mobo. Then try the reactivation.
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
Just to be sure... This process doesn't offer any risk of loosing data in the actual source disk, right? I'm pretty sure it doesn't but it doesn't hurt to ask.
It shouldn't take that long. Maybe 10-20 minutes. You might want to try another cloning tool if this is not working for you. ruclips.net/p/PLwdwMLbf_qdYtCnCQyoavA2WBZnD5aYM4
You failed to show the removal of the original hard drive (my guess is that you really did not). Does the new drive need to physically be placed in the exact location as the old drive was removed form? Or can the physical drives be moved around in the physical computer (to accommodate different sized devices etc.) If I remember correctly there was a time when SCSI drives had to be configured physically in a special order if things were to work correctly.
The video was done on a virtual machine and yes the drive was removed. The new drive does not need to be placed in the same location. Back in the old days of IDE drives you needed to have master and slave jumper settings but not with newer drives. SCSI drives might be the exception but if you are using a SATA or SSD drive then you can connect it to any SATA port as long as you removed the other drive so it doesn't try to boot from it. If you are using a NVMe drive then there is a special slot for that.
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.
@@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.
Im getting boot disk inaccessible error after migration. So I tried the same steps, set the ssd (connected via usb to sata connector) as primary and im getting boot disk inaccessible error now. Im stuck as ive tried recloning a couple of times but it doesnt help at all
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?
When selecting a target disk, nothing shows up. It is just blank. I can see the drives under the Disk 1 Adapter box, but now when trying to clone. What to do?
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!!!
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
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
It should as long as you drag the slider to include the extra drive space as shown at 1:17. If not, this program can help you out and it even does cloning as well. ruclips.net/video/xWtaNbx6nJ0/видео.html
If the other partitions are on the same physical disk that the OS is on, then it should clone them as well since it clones the system and recovery partitions during the process.
@@diostaylow You can have other partitions or logical drives on the same physical hard drive. So if you clone that physical drive, it will clone those other logical drives as well. I think this tool will also clone just a partition if you want to do that. But if you do the clone OS option, I think it does the entire drive.
@@OnlineComputerTipshi again, so i cloned the whole old drive with the OS and 2 partitions, but the partitions are not included during the cloning? Just the OS was cloned. Any way to fix the issue? I selected the OS Migration option and did all the steps you did on this video, is there anything that i’m missing? Thanks
It's hard to say without seeing it but you may want to try a different cloning tool if this one didn't work for you. ruclips.net/p/PLwdwMLbf_qdYtCnCQyoavA2WBZnD5aYM4
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
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.
@@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
You can look at your cloned drive and see if the files are there and if it looks the same as the source. That might give you a better idea if its finished.
@@OnlineComputerTips tried Hasleo and it also failed, but gives an error after the whole run. Incorrect partition table, operation not successful. Not sure what it is. I'm trying to clone because I think my existing drive is failing. Lately I've seen twice messages about needing to restart windows to run a scan on the drive.
@@ommsterlitz1805 There are other cloning tools you can use to maybe you will have better luck with one of those. ruclips.net/p/PLwdwMLbf_qdYtCnCQyoavA2WBZnD5aYM4
I tried OS migration but it was not bootable. I'm noticing that after I have chosen the target drive, the source drive (C: OS) has a blue partition named 'EFI System Partition' but the target drive does not have that, so I right clicked it and chose 'Clone partition to target' and it now has all the same partitions, but still will not boot? Error message after migration process is: Failed to update boot related parameters for target system, and target system may not be able to boot properly. Error:Init failed (Code Line: 163)
Thats because you cloned your OS drive and the point was to use the cloned drive for your OS. If you didn't mean to do that simply go into Disk Management and remove volumes.
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.
can someone please tell how to undo this and just back to what it was before? i mean I want my m2 that I cloned the windows to go back to be empty again? pleaaaaaaaaase
Your original drive should not have changed. If you want to format your second drive that you used for the clone. Just right click on it and choose format to wipe it.
I have this 960gb ssd Adata sx8200 that REFUSES to do a clean install of windows 11 smh. So I got a junk hdd I threw in gonna download every windows update clone it & try this hopefully it works I’m getting pissed off id hate to buy another ssd over something so stupid 😡😡. I feel like it’s some kinda driver issue I done watched 10-20 videos at this point this is my new strategy. BTW I tried clean installs on 2 different laptops still didn’t work……this my last strategy before this drive just becomes a storage drive!
@@OnlineComputerTipsIT WORKED! I figured this would work better if i downloaded every windows 11 update first & it did I just did it today. Disk genius also detected 1 severe bad sector & 1 poor bad sector I wonder if that’s the reason. Clearly the drive is good since windows installed in this back door ass method lol. But yeah if I try to do a clean install again with a usb drive I’m scared it probably will brick again
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.
This is not what my copy of DiskGenius shows: it ONLY clones the main C drive. PERIOD. The other three partitions are unselected and ignored by default. You can actually SEE the red line that delineates the chosen part and it DOES NOT include the other two original partitions. So, how did you do that? You skipped several steps by the evidence.
You are correct. On the many occasions I have used this software, which is very good, I highlight the excluded partitions then click on 'manage partitions' to make sure they are included.
@@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.
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.
@@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.
I followed all of the steps but my laptop isn't recognizing the SSD from where it's plugged in (after cloning i swapped out the HDD from within the laptop for the cloned SSD). On bootup it says no hard drive detected
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Thank you very much
for those who are thinking of doing this method, follow the steps EXACTLY, do not try to be smart and do something he didnt do like select the other bios option or literally anything, be smart and do not touch anything that does not need to be touch, do exactly 1:1 exactly the same thing he does otherwise you will have to go through 3 hours of troubleshooting and brain loss like me :)
I copied everything he did... wouldn't boot from my SSD no matter what I did. Just hooked up the HDD back and voila, works great with 3 minute load time. Unsure I want to invest 2 more hours for another shot at this clone from my super slow HDD.
@@stevegibsons9083 check if the C: is now at the SSD, once I did on mine, it automatically changed the "C:" root to the SSD, and the HDD became a secondary ( D: )
@@stevegibsons9083 there's something wrong with diskgenius and I can't tell what it is. They tell me everything is fine (both the partition tool of disk genius and on windows) but I cannot boot on the new HDD no matter what I do and if I try to fix it it tells me there is nothing on the disk.
@@stevegibsons9083 He skipped several steps.
I'm unable to do exactly what he did because there is no button to select a target disk. I can't clone to my C drive because my C drive is only a 500 gb internal SSD that has the OS installed on it.
I have spent a couple of weeks now trying to clone my drive as my hard drive was starting to fail. Finally a video that actually works. Thank you so much for sharing this, it was really really useful. I am eternally grateful.
Just thank you my friend because of you my 3 days of frustration with macrium software ended and I could clone my os
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.
Works perfectly. Thank you for spending the time to make this helpful video!!
Thank you! 👍 The BIG channels many times forget how they started out.
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I received boot errors after following other tutorials. I followed your instructions and everything went smoothly. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
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.
Excellent, simple, no-nonsense instructional vid! Thank you.
Thank you so much for this video! I have been troubleshooting and wrangling finicky programs and tech for several hours now and this was a godsend. I can finally sleep with no worries!
I used trhe Hot Migration method and ended up with a non-botting system. I tried a couple of different things, but none of them worked. Then I decided to try the Reboot to WinPE and suddenly I had a working system again. Cloned a 256mb drive over to a 2 terrabyte drive and now have plenty of memory in my system.
Great simple video. Was looking to clone my SSD to a larger one and swap it out.
Hot swap didn't work for me, it gave me an error and basically the drive wasn't bootable
Did everything you did, step by step, during the process the screen went black and then the PC restarted. It didn’t allow me to press the “complete” button, it just went black.
When it restarted it came up with the blue screen.
Now I’ve popped the old ssd drive back in and it doesn’t want to start.
I am experiencing the same blue screen issue. Have you identified a resolution?
excellent video short, to the point, worked perfectly,THANK YOU!
Great video! Straight to the point and effective!
Great video, simple and straight to the point. Thank you!
Worked a treat thanks for the Tutorial.
Worked perfectly thanks m8.
My computer boot loader wouldn't recognize the new drive I had to go to tools UEFI bios boot. And change the boot to match the new drive and the same boot partition as the orignial. Then I shutdown the computer, replaced the drive and it worked.
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.
interesting I had the exact same problem as you but did not manage to fix it yet. Will try next week
hello, thank you for your videos. currently I have a 128 GB SSD drive with Windows on it and I was planning to buy a new SSD with 500GB on it and replace the old one. Will it work if I connect the new SSD drive with a USB adapter to my computer and then use the clone software and folow your steps. Than open the computer and replace the old one with the new 500 GB cloned drive. Do I need to go in BIOS and change stetting or it will recognize my 500GB drive and reboot to windows?
I have not tried it with an external drive but if the program recognizes it then it should work. If your new drive is the same type as your old drive as in it uses the same connection, you should be able to just swap it out and boot it up. If it's a different type, then you may need to change the boot order if it doesn't find it. There are other cloning apps you can try too if this one doesn't work for you.
ruclips.net/p/PLwdwMLbf_qdYtCnCQyoavA2WBZnD5aYM4
the partition part confuses me. i'm wanting to replace a 1TB ssd with a 2TB. the target drive is bigger so it should have free space after cloning, so why move the partition up to remove that free space?
If you leave the free space then it will be unallocated space on the drive and not part of the partition on the new drive. You can expand the new drive later to use the rest of it though.
@@OnlineComputerTips Would you use the Extend Volume Wizard tool to do this?
@@MrTwister70 You can use the Windows Disk Management tool to extend your partition but if you have something like a system partition in between the C drive and the free space then you can use something like NIUBI Partition Editor to move it so you can extend it.
onlinecomputertips.com/support-categories/hardware/862-move-partitions/
@@OnlineComputerTips Awesome. Thank you for the info and the reply!
super clear and concise, thank you!
This worked great!! Thanks for the great video.
I have just used Disk Genius four times and it looks like it's a perfect clone of my internal laptop drive but it won't boot when I hit f11 off of that drive. Any suggestions? I chose OS/System Migration
Great video 🎉 thanks a lot
Worked great thankyou
Hi, question, when selecting os migration (system migration) - does it transfer everything on the c drive, including the operating system of course but also programs, file, and partitions? Also I notices you moved the destination drive partition slider all the way to the right, correct? To accommodate all the partitions on the source drive? thank you for this video and your reply!
Yes it copies everything on the drive along with the partitions. If the destination drive is larger than the source, you can have it use all of the space on the new drive, otherwise you will be left with unallocated space that you can then use for a new partition or extend your drive later.
@@OnlineComputerTips thanks! One other question, I bought a new Samsung 980 Pro SSD 1T as the new target drive - do I need to format /initialize it first? And, should I also check for any firmware updates before cloning to it?
@@jens9904 You will need to initialize it first but you shouldn't need to create a volume or format it.
@@OnlineComputerTips just getting back to this, I forgot to initialize it first, I just did the system migration with the new ssd connected via USB since there's only one M.2 slot - and it isn't recognized as bootable. Do you think it's because it wasn't initialized first? There weren't any errors and the size looks correct.
@@OnlineComputerTipshi thanks in advance for answering my follow up question
thank you for making this quick and easy!
Can I create a backup system image similar to Macrium Reflect?
Just a quick Q, obvious the goal for these tend to be MOVING to another drive, but as it is called "OS Migration" the original nvme (in my case) isn't actually affected right? It is still fully functional after a migration as it always was?
(In my situation, I had a drive I used diskgenius to backup [worked great] and now would like to make a clone of my windows just incase something goes wrong with that too, if I use OS Migration i can continue to use the original until the time that it becomes physically inoperable yes?)
Correct, when you clone the drive, it doesn't affect the original drive... assuming you do it correctly!
Clone sad ko kya usi lep pr use kar sakte hai ya kisi aur pr kar sakte ha
Lmao thanks bud 💯 definitely took longer was moving 2tb 😂
How long did that take?
hi..after migration..2 OS on 2 separate drives are all bootable & usable? (no change in motherboard)
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.
Can i follow this 1:1 even though i wont take out the old disk? (Use it as extra space)
As long as you change the boot order of your PC to boot from thew new disk first, otherwise it will keep booting to the original one.
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.
Wouldn't cloning be an efficient way to... maybe once per year, backup everything, including system - - use of the disk could be a "just in case" thing? I'm not very tech savvy - - I like things that just work and being able to swap out a hard drive IF it fails, seems sensible to me, but there might be drawbacks I'm not aware of since it's not my field of expertise.
Sure you can clone everything to a different drive and then if the drive failed or Windows had a serious issue, you could swap the drive assuming it's the same type of drive where you can just replace the failed drive. The main problem is that all your PC and files will be as current as the date you cloned the drive but if you did it on a more frequent schedule you would be better off. Most people do system image backups to an external drive, and you can do those easier and even have your PC run them automatically on a schedule. Then you can restore whatever image you want if you have more than one using the backup software. This would be more for having a Windows issue rather than a hard drive failure even though you can restore your image to a new drive by installing Windows on it and then the backup program and restoring your image. Some programs allow you to make a boot
ecovery disk that you can boot to and restore the image as well.
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Direct and easy to follow
Hey there, so I'm trying to transfer everything from my old HDD to a bigger new HDD using a USB docking port, I followed the steps as well but ended with a black/blue screen asking for diagnosis repair after putting the new HDD in since I thought I did everything right, did I do something wrong, I followed everything you did in the video
I've seen that happen with other cloning apps but I can't say why that is. You may want to try one of the many other disk cloning tools.
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Thank you very much, you save my time and money, that was helpful nd totally free 👍👍👍
Thank you very much.
Okay just so I am completely clear here, this will make a clone of my drive and will NOT erase my old drive in the process?
Yes as long as you do it correctly. You should always do a backup before using anything like this though.
Do i need to remove all my other drives for this to work? Because after I did this it just kept booting from old drive and the new drive wasn't able to be selected as a boot drive. Should I remove my other drives and only keep the new drive and the windows drive in?
I would think you could change the boot order at startup or go into the BIOS and change it. If that doesn't work, maybe try unplugging the other drive and then if it boots to the new drive, go plug it back in and see what happens. Or if both drives use the same cable\port type on the motherboard, try swapping the cables.
@OnlineComputerTips so apparently I had to go a little deeper in boot settings and change the BBS priority to the new drive! Thanks man
Thank u sooo much i downloaded windows on my slower ssd so u saved me !
So after the system migration part, do I physically take off my old SSD and replace it with the new SSD that was cloned into?
If you don't plan on using the old drive then yes. If you plan on wiping to use as extra space, then you can leave it but you most likely will need to change your boot order in the BIOS\UEFI or you may be able to swap the SATA cable ports on the motherboard with the old one assuming you are using that type of connection.
I have a question. do i need to select all storage on the target disc? Also when i have a 1 TB storage ssd? Or will it fill up my whole SSD because then i have a problem.
Cloning the drive will wipe the entire destination disk so if you have important data on it then don't do it unless you backup your files elsewhere first.
@@OnlineComputerTips i dont have any data on it, so its empty but if i clone it then it wont take up my whole ssd space right?
@@Sam-rw7hj It depends how you do it. If you leave the default settings it should use as much space as the size of your source drives. Many cloning apps will allow you to take up all the extra space when cloning to a larger drive.
@@OnlineComputerTips great thanks im gonna try now!
@@Sam-rw7hj FYI there are many other cloning apps you can use if DiskGenius doesn't work for you.
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after creating this, can we use second drive as plex drive?
I’m building a new pc with new motherboard and swapping the sad. Windows will ask for reactivation with a motherboard change. Should I swap ssd before the mobo swap or after reactivating windows?
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If the Windows license is tied to the motherboard (OEM) then you will most likely not be able to activate it without trying to get a hold of Microsoft. You can try to clone the drive first and see what it does when you install it in the new computer.
You can try this and see if you can activate it.
Open the activation window by pressing Windows key + R, then type slui.exe 4 and press Enter.
Select your country and call the provided phone number.
Follow the automated system prompts, entering the installation ID when prompted.
You will receive a confirmation ID to enter in the activation window.
I would also write down your license key just to have it on hand if you don't have it already.
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@@OnlineComputerTips thank you for the quick and informative reply. I’ll clone the ssd first then install the cloned one in the new mobo. Then try the reactivation.
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
does this software also support shrinking? like from 500 gb drives to 256 gb drives.
yes
Just to be sure... This process doesn't offer any risk of loosing data in the actual source disk, right? I'm pretty sure it doesn't but it doesn't hurt to ask.
If you do it correctly, the source disk shouldn't be touched. It's always a good idea to do your regular backup beforehand though.
@OnlineComputerTips thanks for the video and the tips
This proces is taking hours. I had 120GB on my previous disk. Did I do somthing wrong? Or do i just need to wait?
It shouldn't take that long. Maybe 10-20 minutes. You might want to try another cloning tool if this is not working for you.
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You failed to show the removal of the original hard drive (my guess is that you really did not). Does the new drive need to physically be placed in the exact location as the old drive was removed form? Or can the physical drives be moved around in the physical computer (to accommodate different sized devices etc.) If I remember correctly there was a time when SCSI drives had to be configured physically in a special order if things were to work correctly.
The video was done on a virtual machine and yes the drive was removed. The new drive does not need to be placed in the same location. Back in the old days of IDE drives you needed to have master and slave jumper settings but not with newer drives. SCSI drives might be the exception but if you are using a SATA or SSD drive then you can connect it to any SATA port as long as you removed the other drive so it doesn't try to boot from it. If you are using a NVMe drive then there is a special slot for that.
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.
thank you. it worked perfect for me
thank you for this.
Im getting boot disk inaccessible error after migration. So I tried the same steps, set the ssd (connected via usb to sata connector) as primary and im getting boot disk inaccessible error now. Im stuck as ive tried recloning a couple of times but it doesnt help at all
Hard to say why it's not working but you may want to try a different cloning tool.
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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
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 😮
When selecting a target disk, nothing shows up. It is just blank. I can see the drives under the Disk 1 Adapter box, but now when trying to clone. What to do?
It's hard to say what the problem might be but there are many other cloning tools you can try.
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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!!!
Hey, I cloned my system twice, and I still get a bluescreen with the new cloned SSD. Any solution, please?
Hard to say but you may want to try a different app to clone your drive.
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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
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.
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probably not initialized if you didnt do that already
@@speciti4751 is it a must? to initialize the target drive? mine is new fresh out of the box
so this will automatically increase the size. so if im going from 512gb to 4tb it just scales it up.
It should as long as you drag the slider to include the extra drive space as shown at 1:17. If not, this program can help you out and it even does cloning as well.
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do you need an external dock for this?
If you have the second drive in your PC, it will work fine.
is there any way i can CLONE my HHD with 3 partitions on it to NVME M.2? or is it just for the OS? thanks
If the other partitions are on the same physical disk that the OS is on, then it should clone them as well since it clones the system and recovery partitions during the process.
@@OnlineComputerTips so it’s not just the OS drive right?
@@diostaylow You can have other partitions or logical drives on the same physical hard drive. So if you clone that physical drive, it will clone those other logical drives as well. I think this tool will also clone just a partition if you want to do that. But if you do the clone OS option, I think it does the entire drive.
@@OnlineComputerTipshi again, so i cloned the whole old drive with the OS and 2 partitions, but the partitions are not included during the cloning? Just the OS was cloned. Any way to fix the issue? I selected the OS Migration option and did all the steps you did on this video, is there anything that i’m missing? Thanks
@@diostaylow Are the other 2 partitions Windows partitions such as the EFI or recovery partitions or ones that you created yourself on the same drive?
You are an angel
I cloned my windows 2tb drive to a 4tb ssd . As a result neither drive was bootable. I had to load windows onto the 4 tb ssd. What did I do wrong ???
It's hard to say without seeing it but you may want to try a different cloning tool if this one didn't work for you.
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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.
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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.
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@@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 @.
top teir video for sure
Thanks
Terimakasih, berhasil. Semua file yang ada di drive C ikut tersalin semua, bukan hanya Windows nya saja.
Migration looks to have completed for me. But I'm sitting here staring at 0:00:00 time remaining. I can move the mouse. Do i just reboot?
You can look at your cloned drive and see if the files are there and if it looks the same as the source. That might give you a better idea if its finished.
@@OnlineComputerTips I finally clicked stop and rebooted but looks like nothing on the new drive. So I'm running it again 🤞
If it doesn't work, there are many other cloning apps you can try.
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@@OnlineComputerTips perfect thanks. Doesn't look like it worked. I'll check this.
@@OnlineComputerTips tried Hasleo and it also failed, but gives an error after the whole run. Incorrect partition table, operation not successful. Not sure what it is. I'm trying to clone because I think my existing drive is failing. Lately I've seen twice messages about needing to restart windows to run a scan on the drive.
nice!
I need to clone everything not just the OS how i do it ?
This will clone everything on the drive including apps and personal files. If you have more than drive, then you will need to do that separately.
@@OnlineComputerTips it still don't boot on the drive even if i disconnect the original one idk what to do
@@ommsterlitz1805 There are other cloning tools you can use to maybe you will have better luck with one of those.
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I have a laptop with like 200 gbs and i have a 1 terabyte hdd from a mac and im gonna swap the hdds
I tried OS migration but it was not bootable. I'm noticing that after I have chosen the target drive, the source drive (C: OS) has a blue partition named 'EFI System Partition' but the target drive does not have that, so I right clicked it and chose 'Clone partition to target' and it now has all the same partitions, but still will not boot?
Error message after migration process is:
Failed to update boot related parameters for target system, and target system may not be able to boot properly.
Error:Init failed (Code Line: 163)
I've received the same error. Did you manage to fix yours?
@@bradokhero6616 Yes I did, by using Macrium Reflect Free. It was much slower but the clone works so that's all that matters.
i did this and i now have two OS, OS C and OS E how could you undo this please help
Thats because you cloned your OS drive and the point was to use the cloned drive for your OS. If you didn't mean to do that simply go into Disk Management and remove volumes.
i dont have boot from new hard drive
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.
Good easy to fillow
can someone please tell how to undo this and just back to what it was before? i mean I want my m2 that I cloned the windows to go back to be empty again? pleaaaaaaaaase
Your original drive should not have changed. If you want to format your second drive that you used for the clone. Just right click on it and choose format to wipe it.
I have this 960gb ssd Adata sx8200 that REFUSES to do a clean install of windows 11 smh. So I got a junk hdd I threw in gonna download every windows update clone it & try this hopefully it works I’m getting pissed off id hate to buy another ssd over something so stupid 😡😡. I feel like it’s some kinda driver issue I done watched 10-20 videos at this point this is my new strategy. BTW I tried clean installs on 2 different laptops still didn’t work……this my last strategy before this drive just becomes a storage drive!
There are many other disk cloning tools you can try as well.
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@@OnlineComputerTipsIT WORKED! I figured this would work better if i downloaded every windows 11 update first & it did I just did it today. Disk genius also detected 1 severe bad sector & 1 poor bad sector I wonder if that’s the reason. Clearly the drive is good since windows installed in this back door ass method lol. But yeah if I try to do a clean install again with a usb drive I’m scared it probably will brick again
1:22 why on earth would you do that, losing 16GB memory lol?! Always leave NTFS the same in the destination drive as it was in the target drive.
how would you do it instead? would you have to go into "Manage partitions" under the source drive or ?
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.
u can just change boot option on bios
This is not what my copy of DiskGenius shows: it ONLY clones the main C drive. PERIOD. The other three partitions are unselected and ignored by default. You can actually SEE the red line that delineates the chosen part and it DOES NOT include the other two original partitions.
So, how did you do that? You skipped several steps by the evidence.
You are correct. On the many occasions I have used this software, which is very good, I highlight the excluded partitions then click on 'manage partitions' to make sure they are included.
For the people that said it didn’t work you should make sure disk encryption is turned off first. ruclips.net/user/shortsxM-Td0jPZ8U
tnx but too fast for beginners like me
There is a link in the description for a writeup on the process on our website that might work better for you.
dead links
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.
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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.
Like if Macrium is ass
I followed all of the steps but my laptop isn't recognizing the SSD from where it's plugged in (after cloning i swapped out the HDD from within the laptop for the cloned SSD). On bootup it says no hard drive detected