I'm aware that the program in this video got paywalled. Sorry about that. I'm working on a new video right as another free way to do this. I'll post the link here when it's released. Should be a few weeks. Edit: here's the new video. ruclips.net/video/SY052k5bODA/видео.html
Best to reference live Linux tools for the job since they won't get paywalled, but using drive vendor utilities is another free option and so long as one matches one of the drives in the system I've not met one that doesn't work. When I've not brought a preloaded USB with me I just make a Ventoy one using my phone and download a variety of .isos. A double-ended USB drive is quite handy if one doesn't bring an adapter cable.
This method worked great. I'd expect something like this for windows since it's a proprietary os anyways. I used it to replace my 8yo ssd main drive on my old gaming pc. The drive was in the process of dying with files being randomly corrupted. This free version of the tool worked great to transfer my windows and data as it was to a larger ssd. However, since it was outdated, it failed to write proper recovery partitions for windows 10. I was able to download installation media without a usb to reinstall windows 10 and write the partitions properly so I am able to install updates and have access to windows recovery. It kept all my programs and data while fixing the integrity of my windows install. You should redo your video to add this step, since it's important to have the partitions set up correctly for modern windows installs, otherwise, the system can't update or access recovery. No need to find anything better unless it's faster. I think this piece of software works well. Thanks for sharing it in this vid. If anyone doesn't care enough to go through the steps to keep their programs and data, they can just reinstall and copy their files.
It may be surprising to hear that old PCs are left to recycle (Ewaste) with the hard drives still in them which means their personal data is available for anyone to access. Never leave your personal data available
Personally I remove the hard drives and the data. If the drive is salvageable. I use it as a clone drive for installs. If not, I tear it apart and get the earth magnates out of them. They are unbelievably strong.
It's not surprising at all. Very nearly all don't care and they don't take electronics to a recycling center either. They just dump the old PC and all other electronics including hteir phones into the trash bin for their city to haul off. They're oblivious and don't believe their personal information can be recovered from a bare drive. These are same plug-n-play consumers that had unsecured, open WiFi access points running everywhere in suburbia fifteen years ago.
I use Macrium Reflect as it lets you manage partition sizes as you do the clone, so no need for a second program. It also properly handles MBR and GPT partition types when you are cloning on a separate system, unlike some programs like Acronis.
I've actually had great luck with Acronis. One tip is to always run chkdsk on the old drive before running Acronis and you have a better chance of getting a good clone.
I agree, I bought Acronis because another RUclipsr suggested it. Backups were fine but it would sometimes get a little flakey during drive cloning. Macrium Reflect has been great with no issues. I understand why they're discontinuing the free version, it was all many people needed.
This is exactly how I clone drives, works well. The only problem with cloning is you clone all of the issues with Windows with it. Most people just have Chrome, Office, Adobe Reader, and their data. In this case a reload of Windows is cleaner and faster. Cloning might be good for complex systems with a 100 apps on it but would challenge that a reload would generally be faster
Aoemi is a great backup tool. I purchased a license so I can have it do automated backups of my system and have used it to restore my laptop more than once (because I tend to swap OSs from Windows to Linux and back again semi-regularly. My only problem is that when I restored my desktop from a smaller to larger drive, and resized the main partition, I ended up with the windows recovery partition showing as an active drive instead of hidden. I have a fix in the wings, but haven't tried it yet. I'm a little nervous about messing with it.
I found if you try to copy over to a drive that already has partitions on it, you can end up with with a mess like you are describing. I found if you use cmd prompt to erase all the partitions on that destination drive before any clone is attempted, it causes the clone processes to work much better!
@@chrovioo By default, your system drive should have three partitions, the main where your OS and Files live, and two hidden partitions, One is the boot partition (EFI on newer systems) and a recovery partition, which I'm not really certain what it contains. Neither show u[p in explorer, or should not. If you are restoring using Aoemi to the same size drive, you shouldn't see any difference. My issue was moving to a larger drive, and moving those partitions around after to reclaim space.
Good Video. I generally use an older free version of Mini Tool Partition wizard.9.0 or 10.0 before they took away the closing wizard from the free version. I also use the partiton wizard in Mini Tool as easier to do the partition mods in a windows environment. For disk cloning if neither the source or the target is your current windows drive it will do the clone in windows. If the source is the windows version your are currently booted on the software will bring up a box to reboot into a pre windows environment to do the clone. Have been using this combination for years. Mini Tool partion wizard free version 9.0 seems to work the best for me.
Aomei Backupper is a fantastic tool. I'have used it for over 10 years. I havn't used the clone funktion, but the backup and recovery function. I have my disc partitioned in 3 partitions. Windows my files and recovery. I make backup files to recovery partition. My c drive is not so big so the image will not be big. I can recover my system that way. But there i a funktion in the program so that you can put the image to another lokation. That could be a new SSD drive. In the box you can set the image that goes to the SSD to be used to the SSD. So I think that the allignment that can be chooed is to set the settings correct so that the drive not will be defracted. You can go from a disk that is a HDD to a SSD and there defrag should not work.
You can also get something like a Wavlink Dual Bay Docking Station that lets you clone in a standalone device. It is not super fast but you just plug in your SSD drives and press a button.
I have now used it to clone all 5 hard drives in my system. So far so good. HOWEVER, still waiting to see if it will clone the contents of a RAID 1 disk to a "new" RAID 1 I just set-up.
I wasted days trying to clone a win11 drive in any usable way, I finally went to the new drive's site and used their free migration software, it took no time at all and everything worked perfectly first try. didn't feel great.😕
If you keep have to switch between operating systems [win 10 and win 11 in this case] a hot-swap internal disk caddy would be the way to go. One or two bays. That way, you don't need to mess around with BIOS setting for the new system disk, just put the system drive you want in the first [or only] slot and remove and put the other disk aside. BIOS will just look for a system drive, it does not car which one, so long as it has some sort of boot partition, it will boot. You might have to sign in-'register" a Linux or other OS [BSD, etc] drive, but once you have done that, it is all good. This is particularly true of a Ventoy or Rufus portable USB stick/drive. But some BIOSes are fussier than others. Rufus is greater, but Ventoy, is a bit more intelligent, and automatically adds isos to its boot menu, and you can have more than one iso on the stick. For the paranoid, you can burn an OS onto an SD memory card [preferably the fastest you can afford, and with enough space for the OS/install image], because most of these have a little hard [physical] switch which you can set to read/write or 'read only". The obvious advantage here is that no malware can infect the SD disk if it is set to "read only", so you can use "Hiren's boot CD" [or similar] and run an anti-virus program from it to clean a badly infected host system. Of course, you have to do regular updates on the portable OS, particularly for the anti-virus or anti-malware tools, but you do that with a known clean system. USB sticks used to have hard switches on them, but I have not seen any lately. I don't usually waste my time trying to solve malware problems on an infected system, but will run my tools in a change-rooted environment by booting from my CD card.
Why not have separate drives in the computer you don’t have to use nvme drives especially for video demonstrations and just use the boot manager to pick between a windows 10 install and a windows 11 one or you could do separate partitions on the 1 drive
Because I often need a default install that I can make changes too. It's easier just keeping one loaded that I can just clone then reinstalling from scratch every time.
I'd probably make an image file of both the Win10 and Win11 SSD's and keep them on one drive, once written, they clone faster and you don't have to worry about resizing partitions afterwards.
Hey great video, i try to clone my ssd to a new one but when i tried to follow the steps in hbcd no source disk was available to be selected. Thank you for any advice on what you think the problem may be
Thanks for the advice. But I have a warning about usb m.2 adapters, I saw that some do not have enough power to drive an M.2 ssd disk via USB. I would like to know if there are ssd 2.5 cases for inserting an M.2 ssd. I have bought an external device for two disks, which includes the cloning function even without a computer. And I would like to know how to clone an M.2 to an M.2 disk if we don't have enough connectors on the motherboard and what adapter options exist.
There are adapters and external cases and externally powered USB hubs aplenty. Do some reading and select from whatever gets thousands of positive reviews and it's hard to go wrong.
Could you do a basic ckmputer video like what is a partition, disk, drive.. ect. I am trying to save my dads computer and feel a bit overwhelmed by terminology and options of recovery
Adapters will work for sata and nvme ones. Never had them work for 3.5 HDD but 2.5 HDD are not common (only have 1 external in that form factor). Not sure if I should clone or fresh install across systems.
my experience with 3rd party hard drive cloning has always been hit or miss, more hit than miss. Linux dd commands have always had 100% success rates so far :)
Do you do any consultations? I setup my PC back in 2017 (approx). I'm at the point now where I need to make upgrades and I'd like to do them myself - I've just forgotten most of what I studied for the build.
@@CyberCPU i fully understand .. The 1st sector to sector clone I did was back in the day on a 20GB seagate HDD .. yes 20GB not TB .. Took 30+ hours and eventually failed .. turned me off from that since then BUT sometimes it is necessary, especially on a questionable dirve (s) ... Being in the scene for as long as ive been its great to see someone who is as down to earth as yourself who uses tools and techniques that everyone has access to ... kudos
In your casae and since you're using 2.5" drives, Why don't you get a drive drawer for your test rig ? This way you can boot from any 2.5" OS drive you want and won't need to clone in order to change OS.
About using Rufus, in your other video (Ultimate Recovery Environment for Windows PCs at 8.00), you recommend using MBR instead of GPT. In this video at 12:00, you recommend to use GPT instead of MBR. Which is better?
Serious question is it possible to just take out both of my SSD drives and then reinstall windows via an external USB and then put the SSD back into my computer
Nice video, thanks very much. I have a work laptop running Windows 10 enterprise with a very small SSD that I would love to replace. However the pre-built system has bitlocker enabled and I can't get the bitlocker key, would this procedure work under this condition?
My hard drive running Windows 10 is failing and needs cloned. I created the Hiren's disk, all set on that. If I am cloning from a 3.5" non ssd to another 3.5" non ssd hd that has never been formatted, do I need to complete any steps before cloning?
I just downloaded the latest Hiram's and booted it to my Acer 515-57 500 Gb NVME. AOMEI does not recognize NVME disks and Hiram's does not recognize wireless mice. Wired mice are ok, though. Had to use Lazesoft clone which appears to have worked ok.
I stopped cloning drives. Backfired on me too many times. I have a 500gb USB SSD and a 3TB USB spinner and what I do is image the source drive to one of these with either Macrium Reflect or AOMEI Backupper. From there, I boot the Macrium/AOMEI Recovery ISO from a flash drive and restore the image to the destination drive. Takes a bit longer but I usually don't have to resize partitions afterwards. Imaging and restoring an SSD to an SSD takes 4 mins (nvme) or 8 minutes (sata). I try to avoid imaging spinners - I'm not in my 20s anymore! Too old for that shit ... 😆
Kinda off topic but I have a question for you or anyone here. My mother has an external hard drive that she saved 10 years worth of data onto, from cooking recipes, documents, family photos, family tree research etc, and one day her pc stop recognizing it. After having tried many troubleshooting tips and even using something called, Disk Drill, (after a two day scan came back with, bad sectors results) it seems the drive might be toast. Any tips to recover the data on her external hard drive or is it just a bummer we need to accept.
Having a problem with preping a flash drive for use with my Dell 5759 to restore a cloned copy of my Win10 OS. Seems that the newer (Win10) version of Hirens does not produce a bootable flash drive using Rufus, but the older version of Hirens does boot, though the product warns that it's not ACPI compatible. Any thoughts? Thanks
my boot drive (c) is only a 250gb m2 drive with no room! And i also have a 1TB m2 drive with tons of room! I have a 1TB m2 coming in today, which i like to replace my 250GB m2 drive. My question can i clone the current 250GB m2 drive to the other 1TB m2 on board and once that is done than replace the 250GB m2 with the new 1TBm2 and then clone internaly from one M2 to the other M2?? That with buying that M2 usb tool ???
hello again,i forget something,can you take the disc out of a deffective hard drive and replace it in a new one of the same brand,,,,mine are from 2009 to 2018,which are different brands,i have to check them.I have them ina storage box,thanks,dan,,
hi is it possible to it opposite? take an externaldrive and clone it into the boot system take external drive lets say D: and clone it over the boot drive C:?
Hi. My name is Rita, Im from Denmark. I have a extern harddisk that stop`d work 😭 What can I do. Hope you can help. I have a new to replase the opld, but I hope my photos and data can be saved. Big hugs Rita.❤
Looks simple enough, just to be careful: Is it possible to clone my laptop hard drive into another hard drive that already has files and still keep those files?
No. By definition, the cloning process takes everything that's on the source drive and writes it to the destination drive. And as part of the process, any existing data on the destination drive is erased. It is possible to create a disk image of your source drive. In short, a disk image is an exact copy of the ALL the data on the source drive and it gets created as a single image file that can be saved on another drive. It won't affect any data on that drive. Just note that it will take up a lot of space. At the very least, it will take up as much space as is currently used. In other words, if you have a 500 GB hard drive and have used 400 GB, the disk image file will be a 400 GB file.
I like the watermark, it reminds me that I'm giving MicroShite the middle finger , I'm Sure you know if your system had a dual boot you won't have to do that BS constant cloning.
Will this work on a main drive, with your OS and everything, or is this just for drives storing data? I have a Windows 7 computer that only has one 1tb drive in it, and it's an old spinny boy that's dying. I just want to plonk it over exactly as is onto a new 1tb spinny boy.
I need help!! I'm not able to get access to my computer because the monitor is solid blue and i can't see anything, and the computer pops up with this message: c"\windows\system32\MMDevapi.dill is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error. Try installing the program again using the original installation. The problem is I can't type anything to see any programs etc. Can anyone help???
Currently I just don't have enough funds to buy a new drive.. much less the cables.. and I would like to do this.. but.. Oh well, waiting on my ship to come in.. But thanks for the video
I don't get why you're even doing this. You can dual boot a system on an installed hard drive or have separate OS on USB drives. Why would you reclone your drive every time you need a different OS and why not get all your stuff so it's compatible with one OS so you don't have to do this at all? I still use stuff that was obsolete during Windows XP that I've found ways to install on Win 10 so I don't have to maintain an XP system. I do appreciate the cloning info and that's really good but recloning to change OS all the time is really inefficient.
No shit! That is exactly what I was thinking….in the opening he says ‘it’s really not that hard’. Bullshit! A 20 minute video of confusing ass steps says otherwise.
@@kenunix1863 Then I have no idea. There are many programs that will resize Windows partitions to fit on a smaller drive but I don't know if any of them support Linux file systems. In lots of cases these things don't work with Linux because there's simply not enough market share to make it worth implementing them.
Hi I have a Lenovo ThinkPad t450 laptop I booted with windows 10 and now it's not opening anything I was flashed windows 10 2 to 3 time's bit error is same not updating and also not opening even edge and any other software
Wow, the expert recomending Hirens Boot cd!? Is this 2017 still? Can YOU vouch for the contents of that cd/download? Plenty of free HD clone software. Check the free backup sw. An expert would know for SURE that regular a USB port cannot provide more than 5 watts and ANY 3.5in HD uses at least 7 watts at idle!
1. Win 10 system and a Win 11 system 2. dual boot system 3. VMs 4. drive swap Cloning a drive is useful for replacing a faulty drive or moving to a higher capacity drive, but in your given personal example it's just time consuming and killing/degrading the read/writes on the SSD. To each their own.
you asumed we knew what rufus was --- and then didnt explane what it was and what it does --- if we knew what rufus was we wouldn't be here trying to learn this stuff
I'm aware that the program in this video got paywalled. Sorry about that. I'm working on a new video right as another free way to do this. I'll post the link here when it's released. Should be a few weeks.
Edit: here's the new video.
ruclips.net/video/SY052k5bODA/видео.html
You should also be aware that it is from China and if therefore not safe.
Best to reference live Linux tools for the job since they won't get paywalled, but using drive vendor utilities is another free option and so long as one matches one of the drives in the system I've not met one that doesn't work. When I've not brought a preloaded USB with me I just make a Ventoy one using my phone and download a variety of .isos. A double-ended USB drive is quite handy if one doesn't bring an adapter cable.
This method worked great. I'd expect something like this for windows since it's a proprietary os anyways.
I used it to replace my 8yo ssd main drive on my old gaming pc. The drive was in the process of dying with files being randomly corrupted.
This free version of the tool worked great to transfer my windows and data as it was to a larger ssd. However, since it was outdated, it failed to write proper recovery partitions for windows 10. I was able to download installation media without a usb to reinstall windows 10 and write the partitions properly so I am able to install updates and have access to windows recovery. It kept all my programs and data while fixing the integrity of my windows install.
You should redo your video to add this step, since it's important to have the partitions set up correctly for modern windows installs, otherwise, the system can't update or access recovery.
No need to find anything better unless it's faster. I think this piece of software works well. Thanks for sharing it in this vid.
If anyone doesn't care enough to go through the steps to keep their programs and data, they can just reinstall and copy their files.
@@ronp5615 your phone is also probably from China and therefore not safe...
An extremely performant program is Lazesoft Recovery Suite Home Edition; check that out, you'll be very satisfied about it!
It may be surprising to hear that old PCs are left to recycle (Ewaste) with the hard drives still in them which means their personal data is available for anyone to access. Never leave your personal data available
This is true. That's why I've done a few videos on destroying data.
I bought a used pc at a resale shop, and it still had the users data. I got a few interesting music files, and then wiped it.
Personally I remove the hard drives and the data. If the drive is salvageable. I use it as a clone drive for installs. If not, I tear it apart and get the earth magnates out of them. They are unbelievably strong.
Yea lost my feet pictures and midget porn 😢😢😢
It's not surprising at all. Very nearly all don't care and they don't take electronics to a recycling center either. They just dump the old PC and all other electronics including hteir phones into the trash bin for their city to haul off. They're oblivious and don't believe their personal information can be recovered from a bare drive. These are same plug-n-play consumers that had unsecured, open WiFi access points running everywhere in suburbia fifteen years ago.
I use Macrium Reflect as it lets you manage partition sizes as you do the clone, so no need for a second program. It also properly handles MBR and GPT partition types when you are cloning on a separate system, unlike some programs like Acronis.
That is a great and popular app to use
I totally agree, Macrium Reflect is the best partition manager for me.
I've actually had great luck with Acronis. One tip is to always run chkdsk on the old drive before running Acronis and you have a better chance of getting a good clone.
I agree, I bought Acronis because another RUclipsr suggested it. Backups were fine but it would sometimes get a little flakey during drive cloning. Macrium Reflect has been great with no issues. I understand why they're discontinuing the free version, it was all many people needed.
@@samuraiwarriorsunite They're discontinuing the free version? 😱
This is exactly how I clone drives, works well. The only problem with cloning is you clone all of the issues with Windows with it. Most people just have Chrome, Office, Adobe Reader, and their data. In this case a reload of Windows is cleaner and faster. Cloning might be good for complex systems with a 100 apps on it but would challenge that a reload would generally be faster
Thank you for this video. Was trying to do this all day yesterday. The fiund your video, followed the instructions, and it worked.
Aoemi is a great backup tool. I purchased a license so I can have it do automated backups of my system and have used it to restore my laptop more than once (because I tend to swap OSs from Windows to Linux and back again semi-regularly.
My only problem is that when I restored my desktop from a smaller to larger drive, and resized the main partition, I ended up with the windows recovery partition showing as an active drive instead of hidden. I have a fix in the wings, but haven't tried it yet. I'm a little nervous about messing with it.
Yes, that can happen sometimes.
I found if you try to copy over to a drive that already has partitions on it, you can end up with with a mess like you are describing. I found if you use cmd prompt to erase all the partitions on that destination drive before any clone is attempted, it causes the clone processes to work much better!
Aoemi is great for anything hard drive related. Very nice.
what do you mean the windows revert partition is active instead of hidden? I’m a clone/drive noobie
@@chrovioo By default, your system drive should have three partitions, the main where your OS and Files live, and two hidden partitions, One is the boot partition (EFI on newer systems) and a recovery partition, which I'm not really certain what it contains. Neither show u[p in explorer, or should not.
If you are restoring using Aoemi to the same size drive, you shouldn't see any difference. My issue was moving to a larger drive, and moving those partitions around after to reclaim space.
I also use (Macrium Reflect) for backup/restore/cloning and it just works from Windows 10/11
Is it still free?
Good Video. I generally use an older free version of Mini Tool Partition wizard.9.0 or 10.0 before they took away the closing wizard from the free version. I also use the partiton wizard in Mini Tool as easier to do the partition mods in a windows environment. For disk cloning if neither the source or the target is your current windows drive it will do the clone in windows. If the source is the windows version your are currently booted on the software will bring up a box to reboot into a pre windows environment to do the clone. Have been using this combination for years. Mini Tool partion wizard free version 9.0 seems to work the best for me.
Aomei Backupper is a fantastic tool. I'have used it for over 10 years. I havn't used the clone funktion, but the backup and recovery function. I have my disc partitioned in 3 partitions. Windows my files and recovery. I make backup files to recovery partition. My c drive is not so big so the image will not be big. I can recover my system that way. But there i a funktion in the program so that you can put the image to another lokation. That could be a new SSD drive. In the box you can set the image that goes to the SSD to be used to the SSD. So I think that the allignment that can be chooed is to set the settings correct so that the drive not will be defracted. You can go from a disk that is a HDD to a SSD and there defrag should not work.
AOMEI, using it for serveral years, great tool!
You can also get something like a Wavlink Dual Bay Docking Station that lets you clone in a standalone device. It is not super fast but you just plug in your SSD drives and press a button.
I have now used it to clone all 5 hard drives in my system. So far so good. HOWEVER, still waiting to see if it will clone the contents of a RAID 1 disk to a "new" RAID 1 I just set-up.
I wasted days trying to clone a win11 drive in any usable way, I finally went to the new drive's site and used their free migration software, it took no time at all and everything worked perfectly first try. didn't feel great.😕
If you keep have to switch between operating systems [win 10 and win 11 in this case] a hot-swap internal disk caddy would be the way to go. One or two bays. That way, you don't need to mess around with BIOS setting for the new system disk, just put the system drive you want in the first [or only] slot and remove and put the other disk aside. BIOS will just look for a system drive, it does not car which one, so long as it has some sort of boot partition, it will boot. You might have to sign in-'register" a Linux or other OS [BSD, etc] drive, but once you have done that, it is all good. This is particularly true of a Ventoy or Rufus portable USB stick/drive. But some BIOSes are fussier than others. Rufus is greater, but Ventoy, is a bit more intelligent, and automatically adds isos to its boot menu, and you can have more than one iso on the stick.
For the paranoid, you can burn an OS onto an SD memory card [preferably the fastest you can afford, and with enough space for the OS/install image], because most of these have a little hard [physical] switch which you can set to read/write or 'read only". The obvious advantage here is that no malware can infect the SD disk if it is set to "read only", so you can use "Hiren's boot CD" [or similar] and run an anti-virus program from it to clean a badly infected host system. Of course, you have to do regular updates on the portable OS, particularly for the anti-virus or anti-malware tools, but you do that with a known clean system.
USB sticks used to have hard switches on them, but I have not seen any lately.
I don't usually waste my time trying to solve malware problems on an infected system, but will run my tools in a change-rooted environment by booting from my CD card.
So to install a M2 SSD I want to use a USB adapter, clone my system to it, then install it to the provided slot to boot off of it?
Yes. Well at least that's how it's supposed to work.
Why not have separate drives in the computer you don’t have to use nvme drives especially for video demonstrations and just use the boot manager to pick between a windows 10 install and a windows 11 one or you could do separate partitions on the 1 drive
Because I often need a default install that I can make changes too. It's easier just keeping one loaded that I can just clone then reinstalling from scratch every time.
@@CyberCPU makes sense I was just asking that’s all but you need a fresh-ish install doing it from a clone makes plenty of sense
6:43 Good idea! Go ahead and skip ahead. 🤔
I'm gunna wanna go head and do that myself. 🙂
I love your desk. Did you make it or is it available for purchase?
It's two adjustable workbenches from Home Depot.
I subscribes because of the good information, the clear presentation and the beard, mostly for the beard.
I'd probably make an image file of both the Win10 and Win11 SSD's and keep them on one drive, once written, they clone faster and you don't have to worry about resizing partitions afterwards.
Works a treat, thanks 👍🏼
Hey great video, i try to clone my ssd to a new one but when i tried to follow the steps in hbcd no source disk was available to be selected. Thank you for any advice on what you think the problem may be
Thanks for the advice. But I have a warning about usb m.2 adapters, I saw that some do not have enough power to drive an M.2 ssd disk via USB. I would like to know if there are ssd 2.5 cases for inserting an M.2 ssd. I have bought an external device for two disks, which includes the cloning function even without a computer. And I would like to know how to clone an M.2 to an M.2 disk if we don't have enough connectors on the motherboard and what adapter options exist.
There are adapters and external cases and externally powered USB hubs aplenty. Do some reading and select from whatever gets thousands of positive reviews and it's hard to go wrong.
Could you do a basic ckmputer video like what is a partition, disk, drive.. ect. I am trying to save my dads computer and feel a bit overwhelmed by terminology and options of recovery
Adapters will work for sata and nvme ones. Never had them work for 3.5 HDD but 2.5 HDD are not common (only have 1 external in that form factor). Not sure if I should clone or fresh install across systems.
Thanks for fixing the title.
Shows that you're paying attention to the comments.
No problem. Thanks for pointing it out.
Love your videos.
Keep up the good work!
my experience with 3rd party hard drive cloning has always been hit or miss, more hit than miss. Linux dd commands have always had 100% success rates so far :)
Do you do any consultations? I setup my PC back in 2017 (approx). I'm at the point now where I need to make upgrades and I'd like to do them myself - I've just forgotten most of what I studied for the build.
Love the tutorials you do but this one .. dear Lord ... sector by sector
Sometimes you have no choice. It's definitely the worst case scenario. I wouldn't recommend doing that all the time.
@@CyberCPU i fully understand .. The 1st sector to sector clone I did was back in the day on a 20GB seagate HDD .. yes 20GB not TB .. Took 30+ hours and eventually failed .. turned me off from that since then BUT sometimes it is necessary, especially on a questionable dirve (s) ... Being in the scene for as long as ive been its great to see someone who is as down to earth as yourself who uses tools and techniques that everyone has access to ... kudos
In your casae and since you're using 2.5" drives, Why don't you get a drive drawer for your test rig ? This way you can boot from any 2.5" OS drive you want and won't need to clone in order to change OS.
About using Rufus, in your other video (Ultimate Recovery Environment for Windows PCs at 8.00), you recommend using MBR instead of GPT. In this video at 12:00, you recommend to use GPT instead of MBR. Which is better?
Mbr wouldn't let me boot from usb
I think this guy is a hack and makes stuff up as he goes. The intent of this video was to get people to use AOMEI and he gets a cut
Serious question is it possible to just take out both of my SSD drives and then reinstall windows via an external USB and then put the SSD back into my computer
Can you run clonezilla with ventoy, Or it can only be run by rufus?
Yes, you can definitely use it with Ventoy.
This is not free anymore... Im trying and is asking for payment.
I know. I'm working on another video with a different method that will be free. This method was free until shortly after I did the video.
@@CyberCPU os there any app you know for sure is free?
Nice video, thanks very much. I have a work laptop running Windows 10 enterprise with a very small SSD that I would love to replace. However the pre-built system has bitlocker enabled and I can't get the bitlocker key, would this procedure work under this condition?
I would recommend a sector by sector copy for that. I believe I show how to do that in this video.
My hard drive running Windows 10 is failing and needs cloned. I created the Hiren's disk, all set on that. If I am cloning from a 3.5" non ssd to another 3.5" non ssd hd that has never been formatted, do I need to complete any steps before cloning?
hello sir, nice video..
Will this operation work if the source disk is a classic ssd hdd and the target disk is an nvme ssd?
Yes.
I just downloaded the latest Hiram's and booted it to my Acer 515-57 500 Gb NVME. AOMEI does not recognize NVME disks and Hiram's does not recognize wireless mice. Wired mice are ok, though. Had to use Lazesoft clone which appears to have worked ok.
I stopped cloning drives. Backfired on me too many times. I have a 500gb USB SSD and a 3TB USB spinner and what I do is image the source drive to one of these with either Macrium Reflect or AOMEI Backupper. From there, I boot the Macrium/AOMEI Recovery ISO from a flash drive and restore the image to the destination drive. Takes a bit longer but I usually don't have to resize partitions afterwards. Imaging and restoring an SSD to an SSD takes 4 mins (nvme) or 8 minutes (sata). I try to avoid imaging spinners - I'm not in my 20s anymore! Too old for that shit ... 😆
My Dude, that shirt. My wife and I are dying.....
Thanks. If you want your own there's a link in the description. 😉
thanks
can we do this without any additional software?
Kinda off topic but I have a question for you or anyone here. My mother has an external hard drive that she saved 10 years worth of data onto, from cooking recipes, documents, family photos, family tree research etc, and one day her pc stop recognizing it. After having tried many troubleshooting tips and even using something called, Disk Drill, (after a two day scan came back with, bad sectors results) it seems the drive might be toast. Any tips to recover the data on her external hard drive or is it just a bummer we need to accept.
Try this.
ruclips.net/video/vqOJyB8ZVRk/видео.html
Can you make a video on task manger being randomly freezes I'm frustrated with the problem
I mean for your task it would probably be easier to just have two1tb drives with each windows.... Then just put a hotswap bay in the computer....
Having a problem with preping a flash drive for use with my Dell 5759 to restore a cloned copy of my Win10 OS. Seems that the newer (Win10) version of Hirens does not produce a bootable flash drive using Rufus, but the older version of Hirens does boot, though the product warns that it's not ACPI compatible. Any thoughts? Thanks
Minitool partition wizard clones discs very easily for free. You just need a connector for the 2nd drive uo usb.
my boot drive (c) is only a 250gb m2 drive with no room! And i also have a 1TB m2 drive with tons of room! I have a 1TB m2 coming in today, which i like to replace my 250GB m2 drive. My question can i clone the current 250GB m2 drive to the other 1TB m2 on board and once that is done than replace the 250GB m2 with the new 1TBm2 and then clone internaly from one M2 to the other M2?? That with buying that M2 usb tool ???
hello again,i forget something,can you take the disc out of a deffective hard drive and replace it in a new one of the same brand,,,,mine are from 2009 to 2018,which are different brands,i have to check them.I have them ina storage box,thanks,dan,,
Hi great!
Can you do a video cloning a Mac hard drive! Please
Do you need the adapter
hi
is it possible to it opposite?
take an externaldrive
and clone it into the boot system
take external drive lets say D: and clone it over the boot drive C:?
love the shirt😂
Thanks, there's a link for it in the description.
The clone I made following this video is not bootable. I will have to try again using other methods.
My new Samsung SSD and the software won’t work with my older Dell laptop any suggestions
Hi. My name is Rita, Im from Denmark. I have a extern harddisk that stop`d work 😭 What can I do. Hope you can help. I have a new to replase the opld, but I hope my photos and data can be saved. Big hugs Rita.❤
How much would you charge me to clone windows xp from a gateway solo 2000 laptop to new ssd?
does this transfer everything? like steam games with their save data and I won't have to install again?
The program is not for free, just tried it although it was a good explanation, sadly it is quite expensive so I can’t do it that way.
Ah, Windows 11, the OS you have to work around, 🙂 I wish I stall had Windows 10 like you.
You can install Windows 10 with the Windows 11 license.
Looks simple enough, just to be careful: Is it possible to clone my laptop hard drive into another hard drive that already has files and still keep those files?
No. By definition, the cloning process takes everything that's on the source drive and writes it to the destination drive. And as part of the process, any existing data on the destination drive is erased. It is possible to create a disk image of your source drive. In short, a disk image is an exact copy of the ALL the data on the source drive and it gets created as a single image file that can be saved on another drive. It won't affect any data on that drive. Just note that it will take up a lot of space. At the very least, it will take up as much space as is currently used. In other words, if you have a 500 GB hard drive and have used 400 GB, the disk image file will be a 400 GB file.
Can clone UEFI bootup harddisk please? Becasue I still use Symantec Ghost to clone harddisk.
what about option "-rvd" in the list?
I like the watermark, it reminds me that I'm giving MicroShite the middle finger , I'm Sure you know if your system had a dual boot you won't have to do that BS constant cloning.
You can drag and drop in Rufus as well, how I do it
I wasn't aware of that. Good to know.
Do I need to clone the new ssd?
Is this possible on machines that have a oem key how does that work im on win7
Question when I clone the hard drive will it also copy the operating system and all it's settings
Yes.
Why do a sector-to-sector copy????
What about a drive that uses bitlocker?
i mostly use AOME for cloning my stuff for how i never used thaat one
AOMEI, is the name of the Backupper that CyberCPU Tech cannot say. Why is he butchering it, Like What the hell?
any update to this tutorial on a free way to clone considering its now locked behind a paywall?
I'm working on another video. Should be out in a few weeks.
ah gotcha, thanks in advance@@CyberCPU
Will this work on a main drive, with your OS and everything, or is this just for drives storing data?
I have a Windows 7 computer that only has one 1tb drive in it, and it's an old spinny boy that's dying. I just want to plonk it over exactly as is onto a new 1tb spinny boy.
Yes, it works on any drive.
I need help!! I'm not able to get access to my computer because the monitor is solid blue and i can't see anything, and the computer pops up with this message: c"\windows\system32\MMDevapi.dill is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error. Try installing the program again using the original installation. The problem is I can't type anything to see any programs etc. Can anyone help???
Currently I just don't have enough funds to buy a new drive.. much less the cables.. and I would like to do this.. but.. Oh well, waiting on my ship to come in.. But thanks for the video
Still hit a pay wall as soon I go to click Start Clone
Did the same thing to me the other day when I went to do it. I'm going to put another video together with an alternative.
@@CyberCPU Id watch that.
Nothing is showing up for me for source disk
You might need to install controller drivers for your storage device.
You should give your dad the best gaming PC and us VMwear to clone his old PC
I loved Windows Vista ©®.
Why is it making me pay just to clone
I don't get why you're even doing this. You can dual boot a system on an installed hard drive or have separate OS on USB drives. Why would you reclone your drive every time you need a different OS and why not get all your stuff so it's compatible with one OS so you don't have to do this at all?
I still use stuff that was obsolete during Windows XP that I've found ways to install on Win 10 so I don't have to maintain an XP system.
I do appreciate the cloning info and that's really good but recloning to change OS all the time is really inefficient.
I have an SSD and it's 'running out of space'...
This would be a great way to upgrade to a bigger one.
@@CyberCPU yes but is it a specific program to download? That seemed a little unclear
@@deslocc124 the link to the video on hiren's is in the description.
I have had issues with the TPM after cloning. Anybody else?
Any help plz
In 2024, do these hacks still work?
To many steps.
Pretty straight forward actually bro
No shit! That is exactly what I was thinking….in the opening he says ‘it’s really not that hard’. Bullshit! A 20 minute video of confusing ass steps says otherwise.
@@bi0lizard1do u want all ur data or no its a long process but its worth it if ur data gets safely transferred
Just save your data and then do a clean install on the new drive…that way you don’t lose anything
How do you clone a drive when the source is 2mb larger? Clonezilla fails .
Yes, it will. The first option will clone a drive to a smaller source. Clonezilla won't.
@@CyberCPU Hi. I am running Linux Ubuntu 22.04 not Windows. Thanks.
@@kenunix1863 Then I have no idea. There are many programs that will resize Windows partitions to fit on a smaller drive but I don't know if any of them support Linux file systems.
In lots of cases these things don't work with Linux because there's simply not enough market share to make it worth implementing them.
@@CyberCPU Thanks for replying.
When I did this it was making me pay to do it
Unfortunately AOMI backupper wants to earn some money from their efforts these days.
I saw that. They must have changed something. I plan to do another video with a different method soon that's free.
can you make a video how to install and run android APK file in win 11 without amazon store. Is it possible?
Hi I have a Lenovo ThinkPad t450 laptop I booted with windows 10 and now it's not opening anything I was flashed windows 10 2 to 3 time's bit error is same not updating and also not opening even edge and any other software
>loosing
but,... how does your beard grow sooooo long,... what do you eat,..?
I'll stick with adata ssd toolbox clonedrive function...or acronis cloning software..😂
CLONE HDD TO USB BOOTABLE FOR FREE AND TRANSFER TO A NEW COMPUTER
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Wow, the expert recomending Hirens Boot cd!?
Is this 2017 still?
Can YOU vouch for the contents of that cd/download?
Plenty of free HD clone software. Check the free backup sw.
An expert would know for SURE that regular a USB port cannot provide more than 5 watts and ANY 3.5in HD uses at least 7 watts at idle!
1. Win 10 system and a Win 11 system 2. dual boot system 3. VMs 4. drive swap
Cloning a drive is useful for replacing a faulty drive or moving to a higher capacity drive, but in your given personal example it's just time consuming and killing/degrading the read/writes on the SSD. To each their own.
i know,.. i know,... when you copied your dad's system,,. your dad was preventing it from above,... i know,...!
you asumed we knew what rufus was --- and then didnt explane what it was and what it does --- if we knew what rufus was we wouldn't be here trying to learn this stuff
Confusing AF! Looks like I’m going pay someone to do this for me so my boomer ass doesn’t fuck it up. Goddamn I hate computers so much! 😡
Too much bullshit. Misleading title.
Just dual boot. Forget cloning and copying shit each time.