EXCELLENT VIDEO! I've used the trial version of the EaseUS on my desktop and it is a VERY good program. I've not done it on a laptop with an SSD drive, but the screen displays were similar in the process. Many thanks for showing us all you've done.
Thanks for this. Was really helpful and I upgraded a basic laptop for my mom. The only thing I would note is to ensure your ssd was formatted the same as the original Toshiba and note what kind of boot table the original drove had. The original was a gbt and I had formatted the ssd as a normal mbr and had to reformat to a gpt before I could clone it over.
When selecting the SSD target drive at 5:50 there is another step. Lower left under the box click on Advanced Options. Then check the box "Optimize for SSD".
Thank you so much! I followed all of these steps and my Acer e15 is running like a dream! I also updated the Ram following your videos. The guidance is much appreciated!
Was this completely free to do? I know you said you were using the trial but I'm not sure if you had to pay for anything after you backed up your 1 TB drive. Thanks for the video!
Thanks for the vid. Just did to my new Acer & worked great with faster start up. Question, does the system know to automatically save future files & programs to the Acer HD or will it use up the SSD?
Thank you so much for this great walkthrough! I'm thinking of doing this exact thing on my laptop, just unsure about performance. Looking over the specs for the SSD I see that the hardware connectivity is listed as SATA as opposed to PCIE. Does this make a difference in day to day performance of the computer? I am hoping this upgrade will still result in faster loading/booting times for me, but I don't quite understand all the ins and outs of it. My current understanding is that with the SATA connection, we're not getting the full benefit of the M.2 technology.
Compared to the factory 1tb HDD I'm booting in 15 seconds with the SSD as opposed to more than a minute fir the factory drive. I have noticed an amazing increase in perfornance. Especially with the SSD and I upped it to 16 GB a matched pair of 8gb DDR RAM sticks and it flies!
no issues as its not tied to anything it just performs the drive clone and then that's it your good to go! with ssd I'm getting a 15 second startup compared to the slow hdd 1tb drive which is just amazingly fast. good question thank you I hope that helps good luck with your computer!
I purchased half the items you have listed based on the comments I found from Amazon reviews. Glad I found your channel with the video guides on how to setup these parts together, thanks. So with the addition of more ram, will the increase in applications slow down the individual performance of each application?
Hello, I have the Acer Aspire E15 E5-575-33BM, and have upgraded to 8GB ram, as you showed in another video. I have now ordered and received the Crucial 275GB M.2 SSD Drive for the open slot. If I use the EaseUS program to clone the hard drive, will the software initialize the new SSD drive for me, or do I have to do that first, on my own. By pressing F2 during start up, i can see that the new SSD drive is recognized, but in Disk Management it is shown as not initialized. I read that some cloning programs initialize the new drive as part of the cloning process. Do you know if EaseUS does? If I have to initialize first, do you have a video showing how to do that? Thank you for your great videos.
I believe i initialized it from my computer settings and then cloned using Easus during cloning step 5 look for a box to check that says optimize for SSD, even If you miss it it will still work
i have a desk top and a new ADATA SD 700...DESK TOP FAIRLY NEW ,2 TB hdd and a couple year old 2 TB ext hard drive backing up and storage...LOL will this all work out ?
HI. I was hoping you could help me. I followed the instructions all the way thru the point of changing the boot order. However, when I do F12 to check, I can't see my SSD. It's in the boot menu under F2 in the correct order. Can you tell me how to fix this? Or what I missed please?
According to Acer website if you make the SSD drive the boot drive in F2 then enable F12 it will only boot from the SSD once and then will revert back to HDD if you want the SSD to be the permanent boot disable F12 and set SSD as boot in F2.
i have to somehow clone a 16GB m.2 SSD from a thin client (it has windows 7 embedded) and somehow get it onto the 128GB m.2 SSD with only a 16GB USB flash drive, and i only have one m.2 slot. so if i understand this right, clone the SSD onto the USB flash drive, install the new m.2 and boot from the USB drive and clone the USB drive onto the new m.2 ?
@@Zarfilms2007 it's a new install of windows that I need to clone because I don't own any installation files to reinstall it. I bought a refurbished thin client and plan on replacing the 16GB m.2 SSD with a 128GB m.2 SSD and need to transplant the OS to the new SSD. And the only way I have to do it is with a 16GB USB flash drive.
@@Zarfilms2007 yeah it has 2 internal USB 2.0 ports, and 6 external USB ports (2 3.0 and 4 2.0). Internally it has an m.2 for a SATA SSD, possibly a msata port (depending on motherboard revision, I haven't received the unit yet so I don't know if it does or not), a PCIe 16x slot (wired as 4x), and almost looks like a mpcie slot from pictures I've seen.
got another project for you haha, can you make a video show us how to make our old HDD drive into a primary storage drive? like when i installing new app or games it go straight to my SSD, but i dont it to go there i want it in the old 1TB HDD, i can do it manually everytime, but i dont want it do it all the time.
Go into windows settings, select system, then select storage on the left, then you should see an option let's you modify where you install your files. Beware though, it can glitch your whole shit up. It creates a windowsapp folder on my d drive that I couldn't access unless I went into properties, security, advanced, then added myself as the trusted user
Also try and restart the system without trying to change the order and see if it sees it. Also time the restart if it boots in over a minute or two then it’s booting off old drive if it’s 5-20 seconds then it’s SSD lmk how u make out!
So I've done everything exactly as you mentioned in the video and I tried cloning again- the ssd appears to have cloned it all perfect. I've reversed the order of the boot keeping the HDD first to see if when i push F12 the ssd will show up and still nothing. When I hit F12 the only thing that shows is the Toshiba 1tb Hdd.. Not sure if I am missing anything.. Maybe I should try to convert the ssd to dynamic..? Thanks for responding!
ok so the issue was the efi and recovery was not being copied over for some reason.. I finally got it and it showed up immediately in the F12 boot menu. Thank you so much for the help!
I got the E5-576, but I still had to clone the drive before I could change the boot order. I spent hours on the Ease software, but I may have used the wrong software. Instead, I had to use the crucial cloning software. It worked nonetheless. For some reason, I had to install the M.2 SSD on the side opposite for this version of the computer. Thanks for all the help though!
Yes. I've used other programs in the past, and the EaseUS program is by far the easiest and most "bullet proof" of them all. If you're doing this only one time, just download the "trial" 30 day program and use it. You don't need to buy the program to make it work.
is one installed to another computer or external housing if not i don't think its possible unless both are installed to computer at once there is only one slot so i don't think it can be done unless someone else knows please chime in
I put 2 8gb chips for a total of 16gb yes it can run Minecraft. It can take up to 32gb maximum 16gb on each ram slot. The more RAM the better performance!
I plan on buying the Samsung M.2 970 Pro NVMe SSD, and upgrade my RAM to 2x16GB for that 32GB. Use my 1TB Hybrid as storage space. Hope that gets my adobe premiere pro and after effects to render faster.
Alright so I'm planning on getting a Asus laptop that has some outstanding reviews but they almost every single one says to ad an SSD for the boot drive. If I do this with a brand new laptop without anything downloaded on it does that mean I don't need to back up anything and will I be able to get the same results. Thanks
Does this work, I'm hésitent of loosing all of my data and dead that à lot of transferring programs don't work and that the best way is to format and reinstall everything
Yes it worked perfectly also TV aquarium below indicated he did it as well it definitely works but your SSD needs to be big enough to hold the data your cloning!
I've used the EaseUS program on my desktop with no problem. Just be SURE you backup all your important files first to a jump drive and that your source drive (i.e. your old SATA hard drive) total files are NOT more than the size of your new SSD drive.
Zarfilms2007 wow it awsomse very very noticeable difference. Very fast boot up! . At first when I turned it on and i looked a way for a few seconds and there it is, all done! And i though forgot and left my laptop on overnight . So i shut down and turn on again and I cant believe my eyes. I have to slap the kid next to me a few time to make sure i wasn't dreaming haha. Thanks again for the tips can't wait to see what you show us next.
I am so glad to hear this! I Timed my startup at 16-17 seconds that's significant from the slow 1TB HDD drive! Enjoy yours! only thing left is to replace your 4gb with an identical 8GB and your styling!
@@Zarfilms2007 after i cloned my drive using samsung data migration i tried booting my system with the new SSD i had cloned to but it said something along the lines of please use a valid boot option?? What do I do
Have you upgraded your Acer with an SSD?
EXCELLENT VIDEO! I've used the trial version of the EaseUS on my desktop and it is a VERY good program. I've not done it on a laptop with an SSD drive, but the screen displays were similar in the process. Many thanks for showing us all you've done.
Thanks for this. Was really helpful and I upgraded a basic laptop for my mom.
The only thing I would note is to ensure your ssd was formatted the same as the original Toshiba and note what kind of boot table the original drove had. The original was a gbt and I had formatted the ssd as a normal mbr and had to reformat to a gpt before I could clone it over.
When selecting the SSD target drive at 5:50 there is another step. Lower left under the box click on Advanced Options. Then check the box "Optimize for SSD".
awesome video just ordered this laptop and 4Gb ram stick with the SSD and will immediatly do this when it arrives
Thank you so much! I followed all of these steps and my Acer e15 is running like a dream! I also updated the Ram following your videos. The guidance is much appreciated!
We are so glad this helped happy computing!
Took a while for me to figure out, but with the help of this video, got it all set up. Thank you!
Awesome we are so glad it helped! Thank you for the comment we appreciate your feedback!
You have made this very simple and easy to understand...think i maybe able to do this myself...but how do you defrag the HDD?
Dude great work. Thanks for sharing. I am about to try this as I cannot believe Dell sent me my new system with the OS on the HDD instead of the SSD.
Great video,does the operating system change the drive letter to c: after instalation.
Was this completely free to do? I know you said you were using the trial but I'm not sure if you had to pay for anything after you backed up your 1 TB drive. Thanks for the video!
No cost you have a 30 day free trial you only need to use it once no hidden costs. Thank you for the comment
Thanks for the vid. Just did to my new Acer & worked great with faster start up. Question, does the system know to automatically save future files & programs to the Acer HD or will it use up the SSD?
It will use the SSd unless you direct it to the HDD
Thank you so much for this great walkthrough! I'm thinking of doing this exact thing on my laptop, just unsure about performance. Looking over the specs for the SSD I see that the hardware connectivity is listed as SATA as opposed to PCIE. Does this make a difference in day to day performance of the computer? I am hoping this upgrade will still result in faster loading/booting times for me, but I don't quite understand all the ins and outs of it. My current understanding is that with the SATA connection, we're not getting the full benefit of the M.2 technology.
Compared to the factory 1tb HDD I'm booting in 15 seconds with the SSD as opposed to more than a minute fir the factory drive. I have noticed an amazing increase in perfornance. Especially with the SSD and I upped it to 16 GB a matched pair of 8gb DDR RAM sticks and it flies!
Zarfilms2007 aw cool! Good to know thanks 😎
Great video. Did you remove the free software you downloaded after you were done with the complete process?
Nicholas Phipps hi I left it on fir now it's only good for 30 days I will uninstall after the trial period is over
Okay thanks, just wasn't sure if removing it would cause issues.
no issues as its not tied to anything it just performs the drive clone and then that's it your good to go! with ssd I'm getting a 15 second startup compared to the slow hdd 1tb drive which is just amazingly fast. good question thank you I hope that helps good luck with your computer!
Is Easeus still available as a free-method to back up? I am looking to add an internal ssd as an upgrade
yes Easus TODO backup free trial is still available as shown
I purchased half the items you have listed based on the comments I found from Amazon reviews. Glad I found your channel with the video guides on how to setup these parts together, thanks. So with the addition of more ram, will the increase in applications slow down the individual performance of each application?
Nothing will slow down if anything you should increase some speed with the Ram and SSD! Thank you for the comment!
Zarfilms2007 thanks!
You are very welcome good luck with your computer!
Hello, I have the Acer Aspire E15 E5-575-33BM, and have upgraded to 8GB ram, as you showed in another video. I have now ordered and received the Crucial 275GB M.2 SSD Drive for the open slot. If I use the EaseUS program to clone the hard drive, will the software initialize the new SSD drive for me, or do I have to do that first, on my own. By pressing F2 during start up, i can see that the new SSD drive is recognized, but in Disk Management it is shown as not initialized. I read that some cloning programs initialize the new drive as part of the cloning process. Do you know if EaseUS does? If I have to initialize first, do you have a video showing how to do that? Thank you for your great videos.
I believe i initialized it from my computer settings and then cloned using Easus during cloning step 5 look for a box to check that says optimize for SSD, even If you miss it it will still work
i only bought the 128 gb ssd. would everything still fit for clonings sake??
Goto storage click drives and see how much data is on your 1tb drive 128Gb may be to small depends on what you have loaded
Zarfilms2007 gonna do this from stock
Than it should work!
my system is using 70GB and its got a few programs and some files added so your good to clone it should work no problem
Zarfilms2007 awesome! cant wait for it then. thank you.
could i do this to an external usb SSD drive?
You sure could great question!
@@Zarfilms2007 awesome thank you very much for the reply
I only clone HDD to SSD if it has same space or more I am not giving up on space for less space
Install was exactly as described , Great instructions-- How do you reformat the 1T drive?
Go to settings storage find the drive and click format
i have a desk top and a new ADATA SD 700...DESK TOP FAIRLY NEW ,2 TB hdd and a couple year old 2 TB ext hard drive backing up and storage...LOL will this all work out ?
It would work
HI. I was hoping you could help me. I followed the instructions all the way thru the point of changing the boot order. However, when I do F12 to check, I can't see my SSD. It's in the boot menu under F2 in the correct order. Can you tell me how to fix this? Or what I missed please?
Brenda Moore go to settings in your system file find the drive and click inititialize then try
Hi, thank you for responding so quickly. I did initialize it before beginning. It currently says it is Healthy (Primary partition). Is this correct?
Boot Mode is UEF1, secure boot is enabled. Boot priority order is Windows boot Manager, the SSD, then Toshiba hard drive.
According to Acer website if you make the SSD drive the boot drive in F2 then enable F12 it will only boot from the SSD once and then will revert back to HDD if you want the SSD to be the permanent boot disable F12 and set SSD as boot in F2.
I have this same problem it doesn’t want to boot from the ssd it shows up in the F2 menu but not in the F12
If a clone my main drive to the SSD, will I be also cloning softwares such as arc gis, office, etc?
Yes everything will be copied onto the new drive all programs!
i have to somehow clone a 16GB m.2 SSD from a thin client (it has windows 7 embedded) and somehow get it onto the 128GB m.2 SSD with only a 16GB USB flash drive, and i only have one m.2 slot.
so if i understand this right, clone the SSD onto the USB flash drive, install the new m.2 and boot from the USB drive and clone the USB drive onto the new m.2 ?
It might work but it sounds problematic isvit just files or something else?
@@Zarfilms2007 it's a new install of windows that I need to clone because I don't own any installation files to reinstall it. I bought a refurbished thin client and plan on replacing the 16GB m.2 SSD with a 128GB m.2 SSD and need to transplant the OS to the new SSD. And the only way I have to do it is with a 16GB USB flash drive.
does the computer have a usb port then give it a try your thought process seems to be the only way to migrate it!
@@Zarfilms2007 yeah it has 2 internal USB 2.0 ports, and 6 external USB ports (2 3.0 and 4 2.0). Internally it has an m.2 for a SATA SSD, possibly a msata port (depending on motherboard revision, I haven't received the unit yet so I don't know if it does or not), a PCIe 16x slot (wired as 4x), and almost looks like a mpcie slot from pictures I've seen.
got another project for you haha, can you make a video show us how to make our old HDD drive into a primary storage drive? like when i installing new app or games it go straight to my SSD, but i dont it to go there i want it in the old 1TB HDD, i can do it manually everytime, but i dont want it do it all the time.
Lets look into this!
Go into windows settings, select system, then select storage on the left, then you should see an option let's you modify where you install your files. Beware though, it can glitch your whole shit up. It creates a windowsapp folder on my d drive that I couldn't access unless I went into properties, security, advanced, then added myself as the trusted user
Everything is cloned however it won't show under the boot menu (F12) any idea why?
F12 is enabled in Bios? did you try F2 to change boot order (F6) and see if it sees it if it cloned it should be seen
Also try and restart the system without trying to change the order and see if it sees it. Also time the restart if it boots in over a minute or two then it’s booting off old drive if it’s 5-20 seconds then it’s SSD lmk how u make out!
So I've done everything exactly as you mentioned in the video and I tried cloning again- the ssd appears to have cloned it all perfect. I've reversed the order of the boot keeping the HDD first to see if when i push F12 the ssd will show up and still nothing. When I hit F12 the only thing that shows is the Toshiba 1tb Hdd.. Not sure if I am missing anything.. Maybe I should try to convert the ssd to dynamic..? Thanks for responding!
ok so the issue was the efi and recovery was not being copied over for some reason.. I finally got it and it showed up immediately in the F12 boot menu. Thank you so much for the help!
That’s great! I am so glad it’s squared away enjoy the super fast boot up!! It makes a huge difference!
@zarfilms this video is after installing the m.2 ssd to the laptop. the clone the os, then make it the primary boot drive? Thanks
Yes after it is installed and initiated
great! thanks for the tutorial. i'm planning on getting one.
i don’t get those boot priority options in UEFI mode
Did yours ship with the small screw that locks down the SSD drive?
Wayne Cox yes mine did
Installed ssd then i had to see video on how to initialize ssd - simpe to do. Then i saved 11.0 easeus todo backup on ssd. I them defragmented.
What if you just get the PC and boot it for the first time? Do I just hold down F2 and make it the first boot?
Yes That is one way to accomplish the boot drive order!
I got the E5-576, but I still had to clone the drive before I could change the boot order. I spent hours on the Ease software, but I may have used the wrong software. Instead, I had to use the crucial cloning software. It worked nonetheless. For some reason, I had to install the M.2 SSD on the side opposite for this version of the computer.
Thanks for all the help though!
my computer is new out of the box i have upgraded to 12 gb and added the new ssd 275. is this the easiest way to install by cloningthe drive?
Yes
Yes. I've used other programs in the past, and the EaseUS program is by far the easiest and most "bullet proof" of them all. If you're doing this only one time, just download the "trial" 30 day program and use it. You don't need to buy the program to make it work.
is there any way i can clone from my 128gb m.2 ssd to my new 512gb m.2 ssd cloning win10
is one installed to another computer or external housing if not i don't think its possible unless both are installed to computer at once there is only one slot so i don't think it can be done unless someone else knows please chime in
I have acer aspire e15 with ssd drive can I add the same device side to side with the ssd drive?
Yes if you have the open slot fir the drive you surely can
but how much ram you using though? and can it play minecraft?
I put 2 8gb chips for a total of 16gb yes it can run Minecraft. It can take up to 32gb maximum 16gb on each ram slot. The more RAM the better performance!
I plan on buying the Samsung M.2 970 Pro NVMe SSD, and upgrade my RAM to 2x16GB for that 32GB. Use my 1TB Hybrid as storage space. Hope that gets my adobe premiere pro and after effects to render faster.
it will render faster with that much RAM
right you will get performance improvements the render time is what it is
Alright so I'm planning on getting a Asus laptop that has some outstanding reviews but they almost every single one says to ad an SSD for the boot drive. If I do this with a brand new laptop without anything downloaded on it does that mean I don't need to back up anything and will I be able to get the same results. Thanks
Thank you
Wayne Cox you are very welcome
Does this work, I'm hésitent of loosing all of my data and dead that à lot of transferring programs don't work and that the best way is to format and reinstall everything
Yes it worked perfectly also TV aquarium below indicated he did it as well it definitely works but your SSD needs to be big enough to hold the data your cloning!
I've used the EaseUS program on my desktop with no problem. Just be SURE you backup all your important files first to a jump drive and that your source drive (i.e. your old SATA hard drive) total files are NOT more than the size of your new SSD drive.
Must it be a crucial ssd
Doesn't have to be crucial they are just high performance, WD makes a good SSD in different GB\'s as well ill upload a link
I can't find the clone option
IT's there look more closely at the buttons in the easus software
Awsomse thank you.!
You are welcome TV aquarium! Good Luck with your computer if I can be of any help just comment thank you!
Zarfilms2007 wow it awsomse very very noticeable difference. Very fast boot up! . At first when I turned it on and i looked a way for a few seconds and there it is, all done! And i though forgot and left my laptop on overnight . So i shut down and turn on again and I cant believe my eyes. I have to slap the kid next to me a few time to make sure i wasn't dreaming haha. Thanks again for the tips can't wait to see what you show us next.
I am so glad to hear this! I Timed my startup at 16-17 seconds that's significant from the slow 1TB HDD drive! Enjoy yours! only thing left is to replace your 4gb with an identical 8GB and your styling!
@@Zarfilms2007 after i cloned my drive using samsung data migration i tried booting my system with the new SSD i had cloned to but it said something along the lines of please use a valid boot option?? What do I do
I don’t know anything about Samsung’s program I would wipe the SSD and try cloning again using Easus as shown above and then see if it will boot
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