UPDATE: Using Macrium Reflect Free to Clone Windows to a Bootable M.2 SSD
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- Опубликовано: 3 июн 2024
- In this video, I use the most recent version of Macrium Reflect Free to clone Windows from a 1 TB hard drive to a 360 GB M.2 SSD, and keep it bootable. This is an update to a two-year old video (link below), in which I not only clone all six partitions, but I also complete the process of wiping the hard drive. I answer some frequently asked questions that arose from my previous video including showing the size of the rescue disk contents, and the procedure for going from a smaller hard drive to a larger SSD. I start with an out-of-the-box Dell Inspiron 5570 laptop in which I've already installed a brand new 360 GB M.2 SSD module.
Disclaimer: This video was created specifically with the Dell Inspiron 5570 in mind, so this procedure may not work for all computers. At a high level, you need to make sure that your PC or laptop has a way to change the boot sequence to the SSD drive. Since I'll be showing you how to completely erase the contents of the hard drive, MAKE SURE to take every precaution before cloning, including 1) backing up any critical data, 2) creating a rescue disk and 3) creating an image of the original 1 TB drive. I don't want you to be stuck without Windows in case something goes wrong.
Please check to see if you have bitlocker encryption turned on for your system! Macrium Reflect has documented the process of cloning volumes encrypted with Microsoft BitLocker encryption here: knowledgebase.macrium.com/dis...
PLEASE SEE THE PINNED COMMENT for more tips from viewers.
Here is the link to my previous video on cloning ► • How to Clone Windows f...
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► If you find that you are unable to boot from Windows Recovery Environment, the following may help. Thanks to Viral Soni:
I found that it was due to the location of the recovery partition WINRETOOLS had changed due to the reordering. To check if this is the problem run the command - "reagentc /info" at a command prompt as Admin. Running the original HDD you will likely see something like:
reagentc /info
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration
Information:
Windows RE status: Enabled
Windows RE location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition1\Recovery\WindowsRE
Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: [identifier]
If you have the same problem as me, then you will see this when you run the same command on the SSD:
Windows RE status: Disabled
If so, then I believe that windows has disabled the recovery options because it couldn't find the recovery partition. The resolution is to point to the new windows RE location using below command:
reagentc /setreimage /path \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition1\Recovery\WindowsRE
where the path is the same as your working HDD, but partition1 is replaced with partition2, partition3 or as necessary, then attempt:
reagentc /enable
If all is well you will see REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful after each command.
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► A great tip from Wild Tangent
The trick with NVMe SSDs is getting Windows to realize the fact it has NVMe drivers by first booting up the machine on the original drive and initializing/formatting the blank NVMe, and THEN you shutdown and image it. If your system uses Intel Rapid Storage Technology (RST) or Intel RAID for the SATA drive, you MUST disable that first before imaging.
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►If you run into a problem with cloning an Alienware Aurora R7 which has RAID, here is a solution thanks to Roots Bey:
Drivers come automatically installed as RAID. VERY IMPORTANT: First you need to disable Intel Optane before removing it so you can install the M.2 drive.
What I did was your clone process in video. When I was done, I unplugged the HDD. Hit F2 to switch BIOS. Then switch SATA from RAID to AHCI. That's what wouldn't work because I cloned the HDD with RAID on.
Here is the fix: Keep RAID on and restart. Keep the HDD unplugged. Hit F12 and select Device Configuration. Select Samsung non RAID. Go back to F12 screen hitting ESC. Select to boot from Samsung 970. Then I did this process: support.thinkcritical.com/kb/...
I restarted a few times and was in awe. Your system switched from RAID to AHCI. Problem was when I plugged HDD back in and it wouldn't boot because it was not BOOT priority and wouldn't switch, even though my OS was my Samsung SSD.
The fix: Hit F12. Select Samsung 970 M.2 drive to boot from. It works as if HDD wasn't plugged in. KEY STEP is to follow the the end of your video by FORMATTING YOUR HDD. Restart and watch how fast your SSD boots.
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► If you have only two partitions and are getting an error during the repair step, here is a solution, thanks to fullylaced23:
It’s worth noting that for some reason my drive only had two partitions it as opposed to the general 5-6. Furthermore when running the last step to repair the boot I got a “partition sector error” causing me to be unable to boot with either no OS being shown or a corrupted boot. I was able to fix this by setting the partitions to active in the drive which I only thought to do because of the error and this ended up fixing my problem. However I don’t know why this occurred or why the error happens in the repair step. Any way you can shine a light on this or make a pinned comment about this issue because there is a lot of forum posts but not actual solutions. As a matter of fact this might be the first time I’ve solved my own problem.
After further review it seems that people with only two partitions on their windows drive have trouble with Macrium and their Windows Boot Manager becomes disabled since it is on the partition that Macrium disables when doing the last step even though it is not the boot partition. It would explain why activating the partition fixed the problem since this partition must be set to active in order to load the boot files for people with two partition drives.
► Going above and beyond the procedure from Macrium (as seen in the description), here is a solution about Bitlocker from Al B:
BEWARE of Bitlocker Encryption. I followed all steps which worked perfectly except for ‘Fix Boot Problems’ in Macrium Rescue. This process did not work leaving me in a bind with no BCD (Boot Configuration Data File) so my laptop would not boot from the SSD nor the HDD which had been cleaned. Apparently when I booted from the new cloned SSD, data was encrypted by Bitlocker. Luckily, When I booted from the Macrium rescue media, I was able to go into CMD mode (bottom left corner of window) and manually decrypt my new C: drive using the ‘manage-bed’ command. You will need the Bitlocker password for the C: drive when using the manage-bed command. I keep mine in my MS account. It is much easier to do this via control panel after rebooting from the newly cloned drive, but BEFORE the one time reboot into Macrium recovery.
► A protip from Conquesticle:
An easier way to access BIOS from the desktop is by pressing shift and clicking restart simultaneously. Then troubleshoot > advanced options > uefi firmware settings.
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Hearty Thanks!!!
Heyy I'm actually facing a wierd issue with my laptop, an Asus x505za purchased only recently.
Can you please tell me how I may contact you, Instagram or something such would do I guess
@@RamSharma-90_64 I'm not really active on Instagram but I actively monitor here. What type of problem are you having?
@@accessrandom dude I'd be wanting to share pictures with you which is gonna require some sort of a messenger app.
Something you could accommodate...
Hey, I followed your steps but I cloned from a ssd to a hard drive, it brings me to that blue screen page, but when I click continue it restarts the computer and brings me back to the screen!
Everyone. DO NOT SKIP THE LAST STEP. Just saved hours of time for me. I had skipped it and after a few days my pc stopped booting correctly. I proceeded to pull this video back up on my phone, and follow the final instructions with the rescue disk since I still had made it during the video, and bam, problem solved. THANK YOU access random! One of the best tutorials I’ve ever seen.
Thank you for the feedback on your experience with the rescue disk. 🙏 I made sure the video included it as part of the procedure in cases like this (though I'm not sure why it stopped booting correctly after three days - usually, it will work well until the boot partition on the HDD is wiped).
@@accessrandom yeah I followed every other step in your tutorial, woke up to my PC being off completely. Turned it on and had a blue screen, then remembered your video. My pc had updated while I slept and just couldn’t boot back up for some reason. The old drive is still connected and in the same slot but it’s wiped, and didn’t even show up as an option to boot to.
CjThrasher can you explain this a little more. I had the same issue but forgetting I had my back up boot I tried a million things then just decided to try a fresh install but my drive can’t do it no matter what I try.
Also doesn’t help that that drive is now 9 hours away that I’m back at school 🥴
@@WHITEPERSUAS1ON you might be able to fix it if you’re able to make a new usb boot disk I’m not sure since it’s been awhile since I did this but like he said in the video it fixes some issues like my pc was still latching onto the cleaned drive and trying to boot from it even though my boot order was correct so it wouldn’t find an operating system at all.
CjThrasher yeah, that’s been my issue. I even downloaded Linux Mint which I could boot to from a USB and all my files were there on my SSD but I couldn’t access “WINDOWS” file. Weird thing.
It’s nice to know I’m not the only one who has had this problem. It’s had me going insane the last 3 days 😂
"Leftover CDs from the 90s" - I've watched this video at least three times while setting up my SSD and that line cracks me up every time. Ain't it the truth?! Also have a ton of the slim jewel cases left over.
Lol, I just need to fit my stack of 5.25" floppy disks into one of my videos somehow 😀
Best presentation ever on migrating OS to SSD! Appreciate all the animations & highlights to make the points immediately obvious - thanks also for all the small details to make the installation perfect (like exact resizing and ordering of the partitions)
This is superb. The balance between simple, orderly instructions and just enough 'techie' explanation to give context is unsurpassed.
Thank you for the feedback 🙏.
this channel is so underrated, this is legit the best ssd tutorial ive seen. thank you so much for your help!
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏👍
I agree, simple and informative, thanks
Absolutely yes, best cloning instruction ever.
this is an absolute god of a tutorial, i ve been surfing the internet for many years, yet, this remains the absolute best in tutorials, (skips incomprehensive stuff, but addreses the most confusing things in a very comprehensible way) 10/10
He has a very soothing voice! You're learning while relaxing!
This is how all tutorials should be, very concise and detailed at the same time, and also a nice pace. Now, in my case for some reason I couldn't do the procedure within Windows, it always gave me an error message, but then I remember that Rescue Disc you asked us to create, I boot from it and did all the steps and it went OK, so for those who have the same problem as I had, you can use the rescue disc and hopefully it'll all be fine.
Extremely helpful view. This taught me how to clear my drives too through the command prompt, which I wasn't expecting.
Your pacing is phenomenal and you're very detailed. I've been binging SSD cloning videos and this is a 10/10 that helped me last night. Other videos were 7/10 at best. Nice editing, King.
Thank you for the feedback 🙏. Glad you found the video useful.
@@accessrandom best video made by you..including 3 cups of coffee in the end.
Just switched from a 120gb ssd to a 480gb nvme, thank you, you're a life saver !
(I must say there is a few things that changed in the meantime, for example you don't have to mess up with partitions size, they added a button "clone partition" for that. You just select the option to shrink/expand automatically the partitions and it's done)
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This was my first time ever installing an M.2 into an existing system and you made it so simple and easy to follow. No problems on my end at all and I got it done within a few hours due to how large my files were. Thank you so much!
You're welcome, and many thanks for the feedback on the successful clone 🙏
Same, excellent video. Much thanks.
This is hands down the best video for a daunting task such as migrating data like this. This walked me through the whole process for the first time and everything went smoother than I expected. Although I would recommend access random to either take down the older video, or really, really point out you need the recovery disk. I almost didn't make the recovery disk cause on the other video it doesn't seem to be as important and things seem to work out until you see this one.
This is video does such a great job of explaining a terrifying process. Thank you
Yes it can all get confusing and you really don't want to format or erase the wrong drive by mistake. Although one time I had a drive with errors, and formatted it, but did not use it, so the 'bytes' of old data were still there. I used software to recover the data, and my goodness, it recovered in a rather jumbled way - EVERYTHING! I had so many like 200 byte files, I knew they were nothing, but I was able to get my main data back off of the drive. Something got jumbled and the drive was unreadable, I forget what, but a format and recovery straightened it all out.
Thank you Sir, an absolute must for this process, you saved me hours of rummaging through useless web pages and videos. Restored a couple of older laptops to useful machines I can donate to students in need. Without a doubt the best guide out there.
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏. Glad you found the video useful.
@@accessrandom do you need w
To turn on wifi while cloning files
@@sunrise9424 No, you don't need to turn on wifi. The state of the wifi will be the same after the clone as before it.
@@accessrandom noted.
Thank you for providing this excellent how to video. I spent days trying to get my old lenovo laptop to boot from a m.2 I installed. I followed your steps beginning to end and it worked flawlessly. Your effort in making this is truly appreciated.
Fantastic! Best Macrium tutorial I've found, to put a smaller ssd into a laptop. This video made it easy, every step is perfectly described. Don't hesitate, this video makes it easy. Highly recommended!
Thank you my friend - I appreciate it.
This is one of the best instructional videos I've ever seen. Clear, concise, easy to understand and no wasted time. THANK YOU!!!!!
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏
This is a brilliant video - so clear and detailed for every step.
The amazing thing is that in reality the software worked exactly as shown.
I had spent several days and at least 30 attempts to clone my hard drive to a smaller SSD using two different software packages and each attempt had failed miserably.
I had begun to think that my usb 2 connection to the new SSD was not fast enough.
Then everything worked with Macrium 7 Free - exactly as shown in the video.
Thanks very very much.
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏.
This was probably one of the better videos out there in clearly explaining this task. There are several videos that explain only half the process while leaving out the important parts. Thanks for the video
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏.
To be honest, I don't even know why I just watched this video, because it's something I do fairly regularly for family and friends, often using Macrium. However, that being said, this is hands down one of the best walk-throughs I've ever watched. Very concise and well produced.
Thank you for the kind words 🙏 I really appreciate it.
Bro I encounter errors why
I bought a new SSD and failed many times last night doing this on my own, watched a couple videos that weren't detailed enough for my 12 iq brain, tyvm for this it was so detailed and easy to follow and I am forever thankful.
You're welcome, and thank you 👍🙏
12 iq I'm dying
Likewise, this video was a lifesaver. It showed me *exactly* what I wanted to do
Also we all forget that sometimes it is so hard to do something, but if you step back, stop and wait a day, on day 2 it all makes sense and is so easy, while the day before you were pulling out your hair. I think our brains need to decompress, especially when doing something that we are sort of familiar with but don't do that often.
I used this way back when and it worked great. Time to use it again to do the same thing - swapping from HDD to larger M.2. Not only is your voice steady, reassuring and even calming the instructions are fantastic. Thanks a million for this content!
I just spent three hours (due to my slow computer's HDD which I'm replacing using the steps laid out in this video) upgrading my HDD to SSD. These steps, explanations, context, and graphics/video are arguably amongst the most helpful I've come across. THANK YOU for this video. The upgrade seems to hold. I am hoping this lasts (and yes I made and have my Macrium recovery disk files on USB).
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏.
I don't know if you are a teacher outside your RUclips channel but you are terrific at explaining the process and the concepts clearly and concisely. Thank you for this video, truly helped me. The only thing that was a very slight hiccup was the rebooting process. I know you explained at the start that this was for a specific brand of PC but you might want to reiterate that when rebooting to use the recovery disk that the screen and process might look very different when finding and selecting the recovery device. But again, such an awesome video and you rock!
You're welcome, and many thanks for the suggestion 🙏.
I am writting this comment because i wanna thank you from all my heart for this tutorials. I had an Acer Aspire f5-771g and i ordered a new M.2 nvME card. My expectations were pretty low, since updating hardware is not my best task. I followed exactly your steps and here I am booting in less than 10 secs compared to the 1 min with the HDD drive. Thank you.
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏.
Massive Help! For the first time in my life, a youtube tutorial actually went EXACTLY as planned.
Thank you so much for your help!
This is one of the best videos that talks about the entire process involved in cloning
an OS. I followed all the steps and was able to successfully migrate my os from hdd to ssd. Although, out of my ignorance I made a mistake by skipping the step to create the macrium recovery disk. Due to this after wiping clean the hdd post completion of migration my system wouldn’t boot up. So I request everyone to follow all the steps properly and never skip any 😅. Thanks to lot to this channel for making such wonderful videos. keep making such useful videos.
You're welcome, and thank you for confirming the importance of the rescue disk 🙏.
what did you do to fix after it didn't boot up
This was/is one of the best tutorials on this approach I've ever seen. Phenomenal!
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏
Fantastic tutorial, I installed and configured an SSD without fear and without problems.
An important tip: many notebooks come without a CD drive, they need a new usb flash drive for the "rescue disk", and the usb flash stick needs to be cleaned and configured using the CMD prompt before use (diskpart, select disk, select disk n, clean , convert mbr). Thanks and congrats!
You're welcome, and thank for the tip 🙏
Why they no longer include disc readers is beyond me. Like my sister asked me 'do they even make pcs any more with dvd/cd players?'. Apparently not. My new to me, used laptop doesn't have one. But you can buy cd/dvd/blu ray players for not too much money and cable them up and use them on your laptop to play music or watch movies or make music cds for yourself, friends and family.
thank you so much for explaining everything in an easy to understand way. did this to my own pc after upgrading from a 7 year old HDD (i know, its speeds were not great haha) to an SSD. im usually very nervous when doing something like this but i went in and had absolutely no nerves at all thanks to how excellent this tutorial is! many thanks!
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏. Glad you found the video helpful.
Thank you so much ! I was literally struggling to understand why going to a larger SSD it would just separate another it into another partition instead of making it one, this helped a ton !
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏. Glad you found the video useful.
@@accessrandom ya im having trouble finding a free program that will migrate/clonehe the os for free the website has change, which one do you think i should download.
I don't think they support the home version anymore.
@@soggybubble From their download page and feature lists, it looks like "Reflect 7 Free" matches the one I used.
This literally saved me, I had been trying to migrate my OS for hours before I found this video
Thank you - glad you found the video helpful. 👍
This is easily the most thorough and educational tutorial I've ever used. Thank you so much!
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏.
This is indeed one of the best, if not the best practical video I have ever seen. And of course, it made my switch from HDD system disk to SSD work on the first try.
Thanks for the tutorial, I totally missed the "Clone this Disk" option. Also the tip about repairing the Windows boot is great.
Macrium Reflect made resizing for cloning to a larger partition better since this video. There's a button to "float right" any partitions at the end of the drive that should not be resized, to make room for the middle partition that will grow.
This was such a wonderful tutorial. I’ve done it before but this was way more helpful and efficient than the last time I’ve done it
Many thanks for the feedback 🙏.
Great tutorial. I have done it a few times in the past but the tutorial helps to make sure I do it correctly.
I would rather recommend that you first complete the clone and be sure you are able to boot from the newly cloned disk before formatting the old disk. It really gives you peace of mind knowing that you can always revert to your old disk if you mess things up.
Thank you for the feedback 🙏
I thought the same after my crazed moment; guess we shouldn't rely on, "the operation was a success (paraphrase)."
Will it cause any problem (especially during update) if I choose to keep all data including OS in the secondary drive?
its really good as it will change disk signatures to prevent disk signature collision which means you can leave both disks connected after connecting and boot fro either one..
yup, happened to me a week ago using another program, after cloning i wiped out my old ssd and it was complete chaos after that
I have NEVER watched/listened to a tutorial video so well explained and with such CLEAR narration. Thanks!!!
Fantastic explanation! Especially the side-path you took to show what to do if your new SSD has a larger capacity than the disk you want to clone/replace **and** the trick to put your partitions in the correct order again. Very well done!!!
Thank you 🙏.
What a marvelous "radio voice". You could apply for Vin Scully's job announcing L.A. Dodger games. Many thanks for organizing this video with such professional attention to important details!
Thank you 🙏. I might be in the wrong line of work :)
This channel tutorial is very helpful! I get confused while i watching another channel, but this one good enough 👍
Many thanks 👍🙏. I'm glad you found the channel useful.
The process of expanding your partition to fill the drive has been made easier in Macrium Reflect 8. I haven't finished the process of moving my OS drive to another yet but this has been very helpful so far.
I was literally just attempting to do this and suddenly this was in my subscription feed. Thanks so much!!
You're welcome, and thank you - perfect timing 😀👍
More or less same here LoL!
@@RamSharma-90_64 On the same page! Getting a 970 EVO and gonna install it on my Alienware A51M in a couple days!
Like others have said, this is the best tutorial I have ever seen. You give very concise and complete instructions and explanations for everything you do, speak very clearly, and even go the extra mile in the end to show what users will probably want to do. I bought you a coffee and have never done that for a creator before.
Thank you so much 🙏- I really appreciate it!
Just want to say that this tutorial is still relevant in 2022. I managed to clone the HDD of a new laptop to a new SSD even before going through the Windows Setup. I created the WinPE bootable image using another PC and did the cloning process in the PE environment itself.
Thanks a lot 👍👍
This has been one of the greatest, if not THE GREATEST tutorial of a task i have ever followed. Thank you so much for this. Everything made sense!
Hey man, I'd like to thank you for this tutorial! The cloning process took 4 hours to complete though, but it was worth it! My slow laptop has been turned into a fast one thanks to you!
You're welcome, and thank you for the feedback on the successful clone 🙏.
@@accessrandom I've been waiting for 3 hours for it to clone. Is it better to not use my computer while it is cloning?
@@noisnecsa995 Since Macrium Reflect uses VSS (Volume Shadow Copy) technology, theoretically, you should be able to use your computer while cloning. However, I would leave it alone just in case...
@@accessrandom I got it done, thanks anyways.
@@accessrandom what? Text is flipped
I can't say thanks enough!!! Video is clear and to the point, migration finished so fast I almost missed it. This is by far one of the best and easiest migration videos to follow. Much appreciated!!!
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏. Glad you found the video useful.
Best video on a tricky topic. Covers almost everything you need and in very easy language without skipping any important details 👍
Thank you 🙏, much appreciated.
Thanks for this. I appreciate the knowledge, but what I really loved was your video editing skills. There was a lot of editing detail that I bet a lot of people would not notice. Nice job.
Thank you, I spent all day wondering why my SSD wouldn't boot. You are a life saver.
You're welcome, and thank you for sharing the success story 🙏
I just love this guy's voice and tone. It's so calming 😌
I think it is a computer voice
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO!!!
The part where u explain how to fit in the partitions by adjusting the properties was a huge help!
My computer feels brand new right now
You're welcome, and thanks for the feedback 🙏.
Absolute legend!
What great details without ads. Just to the point and not missing any single step. Options for everyone and great clear speaking and volume. Crisp images as well. I used macrium reflect version 11 and still had zero issues.
May karma treat you well.
This is by far one of the best OS/system management tutorials I have seen. Incredibly precise...and therefore *indispensable* for transferring boot drives. Kudos!
Loved your voice. Easy to listen, not like some other computer-generated voices.
Many thanks 🙏. I've actually been mistaken to be a computer-generated voice :)
@@accessrandom it does sound like that. P. S. Unlike others, I couldn’t follow what you showed from Bios part, please reply if you can
Many videos are there are on youtube regarding but you are to the point with accuracy congratulations for your hardwork. Really helpful
i've been eyeing this video since I was planning to get an upgrade from an HDD to SSD. Last night followed the steps, worked like a charm. SUBBED :)
You are a serious life saver! Apart from some annoying bitlocker stuff, all I did was follow your video and everything worked perfectly! Thank you so much!!
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏. Glad you found the video useful.
What did you do to get Bitlocker working again?
@@ryanmartin8966 great question! I had to go to my Microsoft account and dig through all of the bitlocker keys online tied to it. Unfortunately, this did not work out for me in the long run. A day or two after my comment here, I decided to wipe the old nvme and switch slots. That's of course when I got errors telling me I didn't have a valid OS and that something was corrupted. It was an ASUS laptop, so it did not play nice with the new NVME hardware. I had to completely wipe the corrupted OS and ran into the whole new headache in the world of custom proprietary OS disk images hiding unreleased drivers not available anywhere after a vanilla windows 10 install. Ugh. Long story short, I was able to return the laptop and swore off ASUS. I would suggest this process for desktop, but not laptops (unless you're replacing a secondary drive or the OS is mostly vanilla out of the box). And sorry for the rant 😅
Absolute hero, been putting off switching to an SSD for years due to being scared of messing it up, easily one of the best instructional videos I’ve watched 👍
Many thanks 🙏 - I'm glad you found the video useful.
THANKS SO MUCH FOR COMPLETING THE PREVIOUS VIDEO!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Your videos are awesome, very slowly explained and we can see each step clearly, you are the best! 👌
I watched over 50+ videos before seeing yours and only yours explained me so well, because of you, my pc work perfectly, thanks so much! 🙏
You're welcome, and thank you for the kind words 🙏.
Installing a new m.2 ssd in my parents' laptop, this video was perfect. Thank you!
You're welcome, and thank you for the feedback 🙏.
I like this guys step by step with simple and effective way explain this things . Thank dude.
yw, and thank you 👍
Spectacular!! I had been trying to clone from HDD to SSD and driving myself nuts. Even used Samsung's own Data Migration app (Samsung SSD) which couldn't handle the task, along with others. Thank you for your contribution to the rest of us and you've got another subscriber!
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏. Glad you found the video useful and I'm very happy to have you here.
Since this was made for Dell I watched this video like 5 times and it has flawlessly worked very well on Hp laptop 14s. Simply too too good!! Thanks a lot friend !!
I wish others could have mentioned which laptop brand they tried it on to help the new non-Dell guys.
You're welcome, and thank you for the feedback on the HP 🙏.
No nonsense, precise short and detailed video! 👍
Many thanks 🙏
Another brilliant video, super professional.
Also a lovely accent, possibly Jamaican.
Thanks for this amazing detailed video!
I’ve had a lot of headache with that blue screen after cloning the HDD into an SSD and not doing the final step.
You really helped me a loooot!
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏.
what did you do to fix it
Very straightforward and well-described at an easy-to-follow level I cloned my SSD to my M.2 using your method and it works great thank you.
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏.
Accurate, methodical, and complete, the best kind of tutorial.
Thank you 🙏.
Does it also work with HP devices ?
Thank you for the amazing tutorial! I'm a total beginner and just made my machine 50x quicker thanks to you :)
Thank you so much. I wanted to clone my dell laptop drive to a larger ssd. I was concerned about exactly what you cover here. The other dell partitions. Was absolutely perfect explanation. I followed yourinstructions and It worked perfectly. Many thanks.
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏.
Man I just can’t thank you enough!!
I bought a used laptop for my younger brother and it was so laggy. I bought a ssd card and put it but didn’t work until I saw this video after following all these easy and clear steps. Again .. Thank you ❤
This is by far the best tutorial for drive cloning. Informative and easily digestible. If anyone is striving to make great tutorials start taking notes!
Thank you for the kind words 🙏.
Thanks for the tutorial. It was excellent. I installed a new 512 SSD and additional RAM in my Inspirion 5580. I had approached DELL and got a ridiculous quote from them.
I had a slight problem because DELL shipped my device without an adapter screw to secure the SSD to the device. This has been reported by other Inspiron 5580 users in the DELL community forum. DELL claimed since the device was not purchased with an SSD, I should purchase a new part even though the device is under warranty. I have fixed the SSD with paper tape since DELL dosen't have the adapter.
I had a slight glitch with Bitlocker encryption, but this was easily resolved with the Microsoft key for Bitlocker. Other than that the process you explained worked perfectly.
Thank you for the detailed information and the success story 👍 For a part that they could probably source for less than a cent, Dell should really include the screw on all models.
You can buy quite cheaply 'pc repair kits' that include screws, screw drivers, forceps, bits, just about everything you need when working on your laptop or desktop. Most of them are very reasonably priced. You can also but m.2 nvme screws, say 5 or 10 or 25, that's how they are usually sold in small bags.
Thank you so much for the clear closed up video and voice guiding. It is very very useful for me who dun know much about it. And I manage to get it change and work. Double thumbs up for this.
Thank you for the kind words 🙏.
So yeah this is the one of the best tech walk-through's online. Upgrading from Lexan 550gb to Samsung 960 evo 1tb on Skytech Shiva Win11 went smooth and no issues. Since reflect is now a paid service I used the ver 8 trial with no issue. Just a mention about the V8 reflect, it has a option to " float to left/right for the partitions, so they can b placed in order. I just selected the ones that needed to be moved and told them to float right to fit the main install disk. Thank you for this guide. Really appreciated.
Just got a nvme found one cheap on black friday this video helped a lot now I dont run windows on a hard drive
I had to run to the store to pick up some more coffee before I began. Worked perfectly, thank you so much.
😉 You're welcome, and thank you 🙏.
After days, hours, I finally find the instructions I've been looking forward to learning. Thank you!
Fantastic explanation and software recommendation. I struggled to clone as I could not get access to Crucial’s Acronis software as it did not see the M2 ssd. Luckily I had an old ssd in a caddy where I removed my optical drive, cloned to that drive, swapped out to the larger capacity Crucial ssd and cloned back to this ssd. Macrium reflect was brilliant. As I did a direct swap, I have not needed to use the rescue disk for drive letter/boot order, but will follow your advice for cleaning the temporary clone. Many thanks.
You're welcome, and thanks for the feedback 🙏 - glad everything worked out.
I have been looking for this video since 2 weeks, finally found it.
Glad you were able to find it 👍. Happy to have you here.
That was a flawless tutorial. I followed it to the letter and it solved all the problems I had after installing a new ssd. Thank you!
You're welcome, and many thanks for the feedback on the success story 👍🙏
@@accessrandom I very much like this video. I have learnt new things but I'm stucked after successfully cloning my HDD to m2. nvme. I couldn't change my boot sequence from the bios. I can only see my HDD listed even though my files and folders structures are the same on both drives. I've tried disabling secure boot but still cannot configure booting sequence from my m2 nvme. My laptop is an Hp G8.
Great video, clear and concise. I wish all RUclips tutorials were as clear as yours. Thank you!
You're welcome, and thank you so much for the coffee!🙏
I have done this process twice in the past month for my laptop and my father’s PC, you are a life saver
Thank you for the feedback on the successful clones 🙏.
Very well articulated with clear and concise instructions, excellently presented, bravo good sir and thank you :)
You're welcome, and many thanks 🙏.
That was really amazing explanation...
I really enjoyed it, i really appreciate every single minute of the videos, its very nice
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏. Very glad to have you here.
This worked great!!! After watching different videos and installing different so called free software that claimed it would clone the drive, I found your video and it was so thorough and easy to follow. I wish there was a clapping icon instead of the thumbs up! I Appreciate it! I did have to boot using the usb recovery and that fixed the boot blue screen I had with other videos. Thanks again.
You're welcome, and thank you so much for the coffee 🙏. I appreciate it very much - cheers! ☕.
That fix boot problems rescue disk really saved me. Had switched the drive but the PC wouldn't even recognize it.
Excellent video and thanks a lot.
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏.
THANK YOU SO MUCH SAVED MY SANITY LOVE YOU AND YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL VOICE
You're welcome, and thank you. 🙏
You recommend doing a "System Image Backup" before doing this process?
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I follow exactly the process of the video and it works perfectly fine👍🏼
Thank You🙏 This was very useful and still working on 2021
Thank you for the update. 👍 If you have the space, it's a good idea to create an image backup but it would take a large amount of space (in the order of magnitude of the size of the contents of your hard drive).
Amazing video! Best yet! Even used the laptop I was working on. So appreciative.
I have come back to this video multiple times, cloning my own drives, and helping multiple friends upgrade their storage for gaming purposes.
Thanks a lot!! Best tutorial I've seen yet. The Rescue Media absolutely helps in more ways than one. Can't recommend this video and Macrium Reflect enough
I cloned my OS drive to a larger SSD, exactly as described in the video. Afterwards, I removed the original OS drive (by pulling the SATA cable) and tried to boot from the clone, but it would not boot. Only after using the rescue CD I had prepared in advance with "Fix Windows Boot Problems" on the clone did it boot from it! I would recommend not deleting the original hard disk until the clone has booted a few times without problems. That way you always have a fallback option. Once you are sure your clone is working properly, you can always delete the original disk...
Thank you so much for this great guide. It made the whole process so much easier for me!
Love this guy, Huge help!
Literally updated the day before I installed my m.2 drive. Kinda freaky that I find this video exactly when I needed it.
Perfect timing :) Thanks for visiting.
The last step of using Mecriun Fix failed to replace sector boot record (or something like that) and now my pc wont boot 😭
@@ByngerX May I ask how many partitions you had on your original disk and how many you cloned? Also - when you ran the clean command, are you sure you had selected the original hard disk and not the SSD?
Finally fix it. I had my bios set to Legacy+UEFI, I switched it to just UEFI and it works now. I dont know what that means but im glad it works now! Still a great video thank you
Thanks for the update - that will be very helpful for others who run into the same situation.
Im crying so hard rn. Thank you so much dude. This entire step by step process is really helpful. Ure our hero. I bet this will help for more generations.
You're very welcome, and thank you 🙏.
This video saved me after 2 sleepless nights. I have Acronis True Image licence, but it was failing without giving any information on why it is failing. Tried multiple things but only Macrium Reflect worked fine and special thanks to you for explaining everything in detail. You got a subscriber.
For those who are searching on how to delete protected partition, this should help:
diskpart
list disk //Note down disk number
select disk N
list part //note down partition num
select part M
delete part override
You're welcome, and thank you for the tips on deleting partitions 🙏. Very happy to have you here. For a video guide, I have a video that might help also: ruclips.net/video/sfS143DikPE/видео.html
Thank you so much! This helped me well, I subscribed to you sir.
Many thanks 🙏 .Very happy to have you here 👍
Carefully, he is a Hero 😌❤️
Thank you for this. Managed to get myself really confused over something that I thought was going to be really straightforward. This helped a lot!
Thank you. Glad you found the video useful.
Comprehensive and crisp. Gold standard for anyone who is planning to migrate OS from hdd to add.
Thank you - I appreciate it.