Windows 10: Clone HDD to SSD

Most regulars here recommend and use Macrium Reflect Free which will work on ANY drive.

:)

 

Clone a 1 Tb drive to a 512 Mb SSC

Hi Vaughn,

You can
clone larger HDD to small SSD with a professional disk cloning software as long as the used space is smaller than the SSD. You will not worry it will clone the unused space unless you use sector by sector clone mode.

I suggest you to clone your HDD to SSD with AOMEI Backupper, if the used space is larger than the SSD, you can clone only the OS to SSD and keep the HDD as data storage. This software is very easy to operate.

 

SSD - copy or reinstall OS?

All you need is a free cloning software. Personally, I often use AOMEI Backupper to clone large hdd to smaller ssd. you don't have to shrink the partition for it to fit the ssd,
as the software will do it, as long as your ssd have enough space for the data on the hdd. If your ssd does not have that much space, you can slim your HDD by removing data to another storage device or use system clone to only migrate your operating
system(OS) to the SSD instead.

www.backup-utility.com/clone/clone-large-hdd-to-smaller-ssd-4348.html

 

I had a bad experience with Acronis True Image a couple of years ago and would never recommend it. Macrium Reflect is fine.

 

You have not upset anybody.

There are many free cloning tools out there. The free Acronis version is only available afaik as a bundled application with specific drive vendors, so ultimately is limited in its use.

I do not see how you can get much easier than Macrium Reflect to clone - select source drive, select clone, selec target drive and execute.

It is fine to express your experience but if you do, expect to see responses that may contradict your view.

 

Hi,

After cloning a HDD to a SSD make sure Windows sees it as a SSD and not a HDD.
If it is not seen correctly run Winsat Disk from an elevated command prompt.

Definitely a MR Free fan here.

Cheers, *Wink