Windows 10: Macrium Reflect Free Cloning Question

I'm a new user to Macrium but so far so good, I've cloned my laptop HDD to an external HDD with no problems. I also created a rescue usb drive. Now I'm intending to fit an SSD to my laptop so here's my question ...can I fit the "blank" SSD to my laptop then boot up with the rescue drive then using Macrium clone or restore from my external HDD. The alternative is to connect the SSD as an external drive and just clone to it?

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Try Macrium Reflect free as this is a much better system image/clone software.

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Hi, OLDJACK. I believe you may be best off (whether you put SSD in laptop or connect externally) going the restore route, that is, assuming the SSD is smaller than the HDD you cloned and possibly having sector/alignment differences. In the case of the restore option, there will likely be some drag and drop operations and some resizing of the operating system partition involved. See MR knowledge base article here: http://knowledgebase.macrium.com/dis...ion+properties

This route of restoring instead of cloning MAY seem like more trouble to perform in some folks' opinions BUT, if you look at the number of threads here at TenForum where the poster tried cloning and had problems whose direct solution (staying with cloning) evaded many folks, you may conclude, like me, that the time taken in that Macrium knowledgebase page (that I gave you a link for) to understand the power and flexibility of restoring will be well worth it.

 

Thank you Wordman...life is never simple so I'll look at the info you suggested and have a go eventually.

 

Word Man is right. Cloning seems to be very difficult in most cases whilst the image route seems to work all the time. I had my own problems with cloning and use imaging since.

In case you have a 100MB system partition, do not forget that. Alternatively you can move the bootmgr to the OS partition like this:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...c-easybcd.html

Then you can forget the 100MB partition.

 

Thanks whs all information is handy. My current 500Gb HDD is partitioned like this (1) System 100MB (2) C: 244.39Gb Boot etc. (3) D: 198.21Gb Logical (4) Samsung Recovery 23.06 Gb. 465.76 Gb. I'm fitting a Samsung 850 500Gb SSD. I'll probably stick with same partition sizes.

 

A 500GB SSD is a lot of money. Do you really need this size. I operate successfully with 60GB SSDs for the OS and the rest goes on the spinners. My latests systems I "upgraded" to 128GB SSDs. But that is already very luxurious.

 

If you want true simplicity and don't mind spending $20 (USD) consider Paragon Migrate OS to SSD.

It does all the heavy lifting in about 4 clicks.

I used it previously to move a Windows 7 OS drive to an SSD. The entire operation took about thirty minutes and required zero knowledge of sectors, alignment, TRIM etc. Pick a source drive, pick a destination and it does the rest. Well worth the extra money IMO.

I have an SSD drive in the post now that I'm going to move my current Windows 10 system to.

HTH

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That is very good advice. Long time ago I got a free copy of it for testing. It makes the migration really easy.

 

Many thanks Datapod, I've purchased a copy of V4 Paragon OS to SSD and watched a UTube video, it looks just the job. UK cost ,with a voucher, was only £11.19 ( full price over £13 ). Getting my SSD this week so I'll post my trials and tribulations later.

 

Samsung has very good migration tool included with their drives. No need to waste money *Wink

 

Problem with those Samsung tools is that they don't work very well. And Macrium is free anyhow.

 

I like (and use) Macrium also. Was referring to those last posts. And didn't heard much about Samsung tools problems.

 

The Paragon OS to SSD does just that so to me it was wasted money, don't buy unless it is just the OS migration you need. I eventually used Macrium Reflect 6 and simply cloned to the SSD from my laptop. I dragged and dropped my partions in the order they were on the source disk. The cloning, I've got about 244Gb on file, took around 3 hours. Switched off laptop,removed all cables and battery. Took out HDD replaced with new SSD, reconnected all items required. Switched on laptop then into Bios and checked the Boot sequence, which recognised the SSD and placed it top of the boot list, saved and let windows boot. No problems except when I checked processing I found that it was slower which I believe was caused by windows indexing so I closed indexing and processing was improved from my last check. I used UserBenchMark as my comparison test. The sequential Read and Write were about 4 times faster ,this would improve if only I had Sata 111 not Sata 11 on my laptop. The random readings were even more startling... read 0.11MBytes/s became 22.1MBytes/s and write 0.75MBytes/s became 30.8MBytes/s.