How to clone a hard drive/SSD using AOMEI Backupper (2023 Update)
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- Опубликовано: 10 окт 2024
- As a follow-up to the last video on cloning using AOMEI Backupper, this video features not only a step-by-step guide to cloning your system, but also a test run afterwards to verify that the cloning completed successfully and is fully bootable.
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Thanks mate, great help.
You're very welcome. Glad it helped!
Thank you for taking the time to make and post The Video. If you could, can you please elaborate on the different cloning tools (System Clone vs Disk Clone vs Partition Clone) - I think I understand the partition clone as you can select an individual partition to clone, but the difference between the system clone and disk clone is not clear to me. Which one should be used to clone a drive that has the OS, other programs, and files on it.
Below is a list of the clone modes and their functions:
• System clone - cloning the entire OS, including however many partitions it spans over, over to the destination (the OS need not occupy the whole disk. For example, in case of a two-partition 256 gig drive on which the OS is installed to a 100 gig partition, the OS clone feature only copies over the portion reserved for the OS, not the other 156 gig.) Also, the system clone feature ensures that the cloned OS is bootable and gives you the option to prepare it for different hardware by the universal restore toggle.
• Disk clone - cloning the entire disk, however many partitions it has (that are visible to the system of course.) This does not guarantee bootup of the cloned drive, if the source were a bootable drive. While system clones will not proceed unless the source contains an OS, this option clones regardless of the content.
• Partition clone - clones partitions on the drive instead of the entire drive, as you correctly indicated. The drive need not contain an OS, nor will the destination be bootable, unless done with specific single-partition systems (even those fail most times).
Hi,
In the old drive, the windows is remain there or it complete moved?
Yes. The original copy will remain
If you want to get an exact copy of the original drive, then choose disk clone. Why did you use the system clone?
Correct. Disk clone does give you an exact copy of everything on the source drive, and so, under the assumption that your source drive contains _only_ your OS and your OS in its entirety, it'll be fine if you choose disk clone over system clone. However, issues may arise from disk clone if either of those requirements is not met (e.g. if your source drive is split 50-50 between your OS and a separate data partiton _or_ if your OS spans multiple drives) whereas system clone ensures your system is cloned no matter the original configuration
@@footprinttechnologies This is exactly the problem I have. The SSD split into three partitions, and disk cloning doesn’t work this time, although it worked previously. The process involves cloning the primary drive to a USB, and then cloning the USB to the secondary drive. Would it be advisable to take out the SSD from the secondary PC, plug it into an M.2 to USB docking station, and then connect it to the primary PC to clone the disk directly? Two SSD drives are the same size. Thanks in advance for any advise
@@forgewire Disk cloning, although it does _clone_ everything, is rather finicky when it comes to cloning OSes. You can certainly give it a try, but no guarantees for success.
Also, have you tried system clone? If you don't have a license to Backupper, feel free to also check out this video (ruclips.net/video/XFTjPKpRwu0/видео.html) on how to clone your OS for free. This has proven much more reliable than messing with disk clone.
I just bought this and used it to clone my C drive (which was max full). I did it the system clone route like you did. The destination of the clone is a 1 TB external hard drive. The source (C drive) is 120 GB SSD. I just finished it about 10 minutes ago. But I'm not entirely sure what to do next. I forgot to check also to see if my BIOS will allow me to boot to USB. If I am allowed to do this, what's the best way of exchanging the old C drive with the soon to be new C drive? My pc is Win 10.
Most motherboards do support booting from external devices, but look for and enable the option in case it is disabled by default on your side. Then if the clone completed successfully, boot in to your new OS on the external drive and enjoy!
@@footprinttechnologies Do I have to rename my old C drive? And the new cloned drive is now renamed to C?
@@PAFloridian No renaming necessary. What shows up as the C drive on your old system (your 128g SSD) will most probably get assigned another drive letter when you boot up from the new clone, and what was the external drive (let's say D drive) will now become the C drive.
@@footprinttechnologies unfortunately, my bios doesn't allow me to boot to any usb drives. my only options are to boot to hard drive or no boot at all. Ive never seen this before. So can I just rename the two drives then and reboot? I'm wondering if Win 10 won't allow me to rename the external drive to C because it's external. Just wondering.
in BIOS under BOOT my options are Boot Configuration, CSM, or Secure Boot. If I try Secure Boot, it tells me to launch the EFI shell, i have to disable the secure boot option or acquire a digitial signature for the EFI shell and store it in a USB flash drive.
Hi,
I want to replace a old sdd nvme m2 by a new one, so I follow your step (clone system) of the old sdd on the new one (new one is on external case to clone it). When the cloning is over I replace the old one by the new one, and then I start my pc.
Unfortunetly it stays stucked. It just show me the same screen over and over without going further....
I don't what is the prblem...
Are you running into BSOD issues or just plain stuck on the Windows logo?
I did the system clone and changed boot order in bios but it wouldnt boot, got a blue screen on loop...should i remove the original harddisk and replace it with cloned drive?
Assuming you have selected the cloned drive to boot from, you typically won't have to remove your old drive, with one exception being, of course, if your PC ran out of I/O capacity or bandwidth. Also, if your drive's too slow or unresponsive, Windows may crash during boot
@@footprinttechnologies yes i selected the cloned drive(ssd) to boot which is connected via usb 3.0 port in "2.5 sata to usb 3 adapter", but the ssd is 240gb while the source hdd is 500gb, could that be the reason for bsod?
@@JosephKarthic It's generally not recommended to clone to a smaller capacity SSD, though it would go find in most cases. To rule out the capacity problem, you can restore an image file of your current OS instead, following this (ruclips.net/video/rxPvSrN8OAM/видео.html) video. If that fails, try booting up your cloned drive again and record the stop code. We may proceed further from there
@@footprinttechnologies Thanks, but I would try replacing the source hdd with cloned ssd instead bcoz thats how I wanted it to be..if that fails then I will do the above steps to rule out,.I will try this weekend and let you know the result, thankyou.
@@footprinttechnologies Hi , I tried it today but it didnt go well, The software doesnt allocate the space properly in the target disk if the source disk it larger, I tried many times but it couldnt boot, So I tried the Macrium reflect software which was explained here ruclips.net/video/lxCMEIIiDfc/видео.html and it worked easily, bcoz we simulate the exact replica of source disk on to the target disk and the system booted perfectly...we are tricking the system by unallocating space and make the target disk look like the exact replica of source disk, Genius solution...
I got the pro version and I cannot get my system clone on usb to transfer to ssd in laptop. I'm using another USB stick to boot into backupper and then trying to use system clone from USB stick that I put it on from original drive.
The software seems useless.
It says it cannot see a bootable source but I have stick in that has system clone.
Did you try booting (and then commencing a system clone) from the USB that contains the OS you want to clone? System clone would normally only scan/clone the system it is booted from
Yeah, I was using disk clone. Read an article from a website and thought system clone wouldn't get all my other data other than OS.
So I did system clone to usb stick and made bootable version of backupper on another USB stick.
Booted into UEFI and used backupper to disk clone my system clone from USB flash stick to ssd.
I bought the program.
@@bloomerb4162 I see. It is likely, then, that disk clone was the problem that resulted in the non-bootable drive. Have you tried system clone? It should clone all you have on your system drive, but corrent me if I'm wrong and I'll be happy to look into it further
@footprinttechnologies yes I did system clone to a USB flash stick. Also made usb flash stick of bootable backupper program.
I had both usb flash sticks plugged in and switched out my old hdd to new internal ssd.
So I booted into the backupper program and then used a disk clone to copy over the system clone from the usb flash stick. That worked, was able to keep whole system intact and boot the ssd.
First, I tried the system clone of the usb flash stick that had the original system clone that didn't work.
I didn't have a usb to sata cable.
@@bloomerb4162 Glad you made it work. If I had to guess, the reason behind the failed system clone may be because the USB didn't have enough bandwidth to copy all the data & run the OS simultaneously. Random guess though.
Should I needed to back up before doing disk clone?
I planing to switching HDD to ssd
If you are switching up your system drive from HDD to SSD, then simply use the system clone feature in Backupper to clone everything on your system drive over to the SSD. No need to back up anything prior, but if you want to be extra safe in case anything goes wrong, then go ahead.
Is SSD that much better than the HDD? I also have a HDD. Maybe should look into that myself.
@@PAFloridian Yes, SSD's are generally much faster than HDD's, so if you want to speed up your system, they would be the better choice
@@PAFloridianYup, I’m only a couple weeks of into educating myself, and apparently all the moving parts of an HDD slow it down by a staggering amount compared to SSD. I’m hearing SSD is usually 10x faster load times compared to an HDD if not faster!
disk 0 is not showing when i open the app idk what to do???
What file system is the disk currently using?
Side note: If you plug in the device with Backupper already running, it likely won't pick it up. Try restarting the app
I want to copy my c drive where windows installed so what i choose between disk clone or system clone ?
In that case, assuming you want the OS to still work once cloned, a system clone would be ideal
@@footprinttechnologiessystem clone is much faster than drive or partition clone, took me 3hrs to clone 1TB of data from a HDD to a 2TB SSD.
Hi, i have an issue after migrate my OS to a new SSD. After I clone my OS to a new SSD and I reboot my laptop, it shows inaccessible boot device when i change my bios to new SSD . In this issue, I still have my old SSD inserted in my laptop and the new SSD plugged using external devices. So, is it i need to change my SSD first then change bios to solve this issue?
old ssd is 110 gb and new SSD is 240 gb
Did you enable the option to allow booting from USB in the BIOS?
@@footprinttechnologies not sure about this but I have move my external SSD to the first option boot order in BIOS
also when i check on my event for my new SSD it shows device were not migrated from previous os installation due to partial or ambiguous device match. Is it also a problem for the migrate os?
@@chewchengkai2769 If you didn't enable the option to boot from external devices from within the BIOS, dragging it to the top of the boot list won't do anything
bro can i move only windows 10 to ssd?
Sorry for the late reply. What do you mean when referring to "Windows 10"? Are you talking about the OS you currently have (including all the data on it) or just the barebones OS as in a fresh Windows 10 installation?
Can i clone windows only?
OS-wise, yes. Backupper is currently Windows only. Aside from OS-cloning, it can do file syncing, partition backup, and plenty of non-OS cloning features.
I got an error 33 code do you know how to fix it
Error code 33 means that you've likely run into a bad sector on either one of your drives (destination or source). Try checking for bad sectors on your drives or, as a last resort, switching to AOMEI Backup Service from Microsoft's VSS to get around the problem. For further details, please refer to #54 in this article: www.ubackup.com/help/error-code.html
Its not free... Ask me to upgrade.. Another way to clone free??
Minitool Partition
You might wanna check out this workaround: ruclips.net/video/XFTjPKpRwu0/видео.html
I have done everything correctly and it said it cloned successfully. But when I try to boot from the new drive it will not boot. I have changed the boot order. Unplugged the old drive. Changed it to legacy mode. I have looked everywhere to try and solve it. Do you have information that might help me?
If you used the system clone function (the partition clone option would not work) correctly, your best bet would be to try again and, if that also fails, use a bootable medium to run startup repair
not for free version
Sadly, yes, the system clone feature is no longer available in the free version :(
you need pro for system clone, god damn it -.-
Sadly that is the case. Thanks to popular demand, I've decided to do a giveaway of a lifetime Pro license when this video hits 50k. Please check the video description for more details.
For those who are trying this from larger HDD to smaller SSD, this didnt work well, I tried the Macrium reflect software which was explained here ruclips.net/video/lxCMEIIiDfc/видео.html and it worked easily, bcoz we simulate the exact replica of source disk on to the target disk and the system booted perfectly...we are tricking the system by unallocating space and make the target disk look like the exact replica of source disk, Genius solution...
Indeed. Thank you for the comment. Backupper assumes that your destination has at least the same amount of space as the source when cloning. In backing up to/restoring from an image file, however, it allows for smaller destination drives, so that is another valid option.