Windows 10: I was unable to clone my HDD to my SSD due to the size

Discus and support I was unable to clone my HDD to my SSD due to the size in Windows 10 Ask Insider to solve the problem; So basically I had a 1tb HDD, and I just had gotten myself a 256ssd. I was unable to clone my HDD to my SSD due to the size. So is the only way to use... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Ask Insider' started by /u/manaleakage, May 16, 2020.

  1. I was unable to clone my HDD to my SSD due to the size


    So basically I had a 1tb HDD, and I just had gotten myself a 256ssd. I was unable to clone my HDD to my SSD due to the size. So is the only way to use a media installation tool on my SDD and buying another key? Or should I format my HDD and then clone it to my SSD?

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    /u/manaleakage, May 16, 2020
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  2. DaveM121 Win User

    How to clone hdd to ssd

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    If you can connect both drives to your PC at the same time and the SSD is of the same or greater size to the HDD, then you can use the free version of Macrium Reflect to clone the HDD onto the SSD . . .

    Download link:

    Macrium Reflect Free

    How to use Macrium Reflect to Clone a drive:

    https://blog.macrium.com/techie-tuesday-cloning...

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    DaveM121, May 23, 2020
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  3. Clone HDD to a SSD

    I'm planing to upgrade my new laptop HDD to SSD while using my HDD as a storage media on my laptop. My laptop came with windows 10 Home OEM. If I cloned the HDD will the windows be activated after I
    cloned or will it be deactivated?? And what happend to other activated softwares like MS Office and Antivirus Softwares???

    Thank you for your support.
     
    Kasun Anuradha, May 23, 2020
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  4. Smears Win User

    I was unable to clone my HDD to my SSD due to the size

    Restore Image or Clone from HDD to new SSD?

    I have a single, non-partitioned (C:\ drive only) 500GB HDD in a desktop PC, using approx. 80 percent of it. I want to install a 500GB SSD, and clone or restore an image of the HDD to it. Once that's complete and successful, I plan to wipe the 500GB HDD
    and then move my large libraries of media from the newly installed SSD to it. My future holds lots of video editing and compiling, so the extra storage will help, along with the better performance via the SSD (and upgraded RAM as well).

    I'm unable to find after much research a definitive answer as to whether cloning the HDD to the SSD is better than restoring an image of the HDD to the SSD. I've read where cloning will carry over bad sectors and such where imaging will not. I think I'm
    leaning toward image restore, keeping a copy of it on an external 1TB drive I have, to which I can periodically do image backups of the new, separate drives.

    I'd also like to find a tutorial re: the same. Thanks in advance for any help.
     
    Smears, May 23, 2020
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