Replace A Hard Drive or SSD For FREE Without Losing Data

Why to this very day is HDD cloning still not just a part of the operating system? Why the artificial tinkering in the PC world? It´s insane.

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If it's Monday, it's time to watch another fine video from Rich. Thank you sir!

Thanks for your videos. Even as an IT pro I still pick up useful items, ideas and tools from your feed. Thanks...

Last I had to clone my machine I transferred from a HDD to a SSD. I chose a Samsung SSD and they had disk cloning software available on their website. It was a version of some commercial software, though I've forgotten what manufacturer. I recognized it as I've used the original versions for many years at work. Samsung had bought a license to use it and called it the Samsung Disk Wizard. It might be worth checking if you are copying to or from a Samsung disk in your system.

Thanks so much for this video. I had no idea where to begin. The first method made my disk gpt partition protected so just wasn't recognised nor booting. The second worked a dream. Thanks again!!

21:37 yeah the recovery partition is always the rightmost partition, but if you clone the disk to a bigger one you will have C -> Recovery -> Empty space and you cannot just expand C into the space, you have to clone the recovery to the rightmost part of the empty space, then delete the old one, and then only then, expand C. This is a remnant of when only hard disk existed, btw. On SSD it doesn't make any sense to have an order for partitions, technically, as the data is not physically split, but only logically. Eventually they'll figure this out and we'll be able to resize any partition regardless of 'order'...

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Tinker's Tip: If you buy a name brand retail boxed/packaged drive, it is very likely they offer a branded version of "a software company starting with A" you can install for free as part of that drive brand's "support" software. It won't have of all of the modules functional, but the Disk Clone module will function fully. The branded version of "a software company starting with A" will check to make sure there is the same drive brand detectable on the system doing the cloning, even if it is connected sata/nvme or USB and even if it is not a drive being cloned to or from, and then once detected, it will then run the clone module. The tip is, keep one of whatever brand drive connected to the computer, so later when you need to clone other drives, no matter those drive's brand, the "a software company starting with A" software you install originally will still work. And, if you ever decide to go to another brand drive, just uninstall the previous "a software company starting with A" install and then install the new brand's "a software company starting with A" version and continue to use it. I have been doing as such for about 5+ years now on my drive cloning / hardware testing PC. .

Wow, talk about hitting the nail on the head. I recently am having trouble with a Ext HD that's about ready to bite the dust. And trying to find the cheapest Ext SSD 1 tb chip and drive case to fix it. And while doing this I thought might as well make my internal HD SSD also. I was wondering how to transfer everything without a mess and or hassle. And then I see this video. TY so much! It gonna really help soon.

Thanks for all your helpful technical insights! I copied data from a smaller drive to a larger drive using Clonezilla's sector-by-sector feature. To utilize all of the space on my larger drive, I chose the advanced extra parameters—disc to local disc, option k1—to generate a partition table proportionally. When attempting to utilize the remaining space, the feature performs just as well as EaseUS when it comes to partition expansion.

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Excellent Video. Thanks !!!

I used Macrium reflect. Worked perfectly.

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Thank you for the tutorial, worked flawlessly.

If you've done a sector by sector copy it's a good idea to immediately run a disk check on the new drive after because any file system errors on the old disk would have been copied over as they were.

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This fixed my one issue with the Windows Bugcheck causing the Nvidia card to freak out. Next I installed MSI Afterburner software and adjusted the core speed and frequency to -30 each. I also boosted the available voltage to the card to 105%. I have a Dell T3610 and just recently upgraded it from Win10->Win11 with Rufus 4.4p. Just let it update itself when you install It. Thank you for saving my pocketbook ❤

Another great video. Im usually on a Mac but keep up on Windows because the Mrs has one.