Replace A Hard Drive or SSD For FREE Without Losing Data

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Replace A Hard Drive or SSD For FREE Without Losing Data

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@PhoticSneezeOne 6 ай бұрын

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.

@samyosef 5 ай бұрын

Going through the pain

@nevose9046 5 ай бұрын

Because there is money that can be made making it a separate program and procedure.

@daffydlandegge3843 3 ай бұрын

Very good point

@Scr34mik 3 ай бұрын

because that way youre migrating machine license as well. this violates microsoft's own ToS..

@PhoticSneezeOne 3 ай бұрын

How is this a "migration" if i just upgrade my SSD in my own PC?

@blahorgaslisk7763 6 ай бұрын

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.

@devonfisher5040 6 ай бұрын

Thanks!! Looks like it's called Samsung Magician.

@laurentitolledo1838 6 ай бұрын

Samsung magician also worked for me on a personal use however it disastrously failed on bitlocked drives (which I don't have the bitlock key).

@robertcartier5088 6 ай бұрын

The Samsung solution did not work for me, last year... it kept saying that my new SSD wasn't big enough, despite it being exactly the same size as the original HDD. Completely useless. Luckily, I had already used EaseUS on another system, so I fetched a free version of it that worked. Not sure if the newer versions still do...

@charginginprogresss 6 ай бұрын

@@robertcartier5088 It's not actually the same size. SSDs reserve 5-10% of their actual capacity for replacing damaged sectors. HDD just lock out damaged sectors when they find them, so they have full space. Even if they accounted for that making the SSD base size bigger, there's no way after that 5-10% subtraction the nail the same byte size of all hard drives of all brands. And in fact...

@ruigaspar7979 6 ай бұрын

Yesterday I had a client that bought an Samsung NVME drive, and used Samsung migration tool. Worked great and clone all disk data. Worked for me! 😊

@1EagleDave 4 ай бұрын

I`ve been in this business for years bro and your videos are good for folks who want to really learn something worth watching. keep up the great work bro!

@gotbordercollies 6 ай бұрын

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

@MichaelSullivanCincinnatux 2 ай бұрын

Tons of great information in this video - much thanks for this. All I needed to do was upgrade the SSD on my desktop PC and what I ended up with is that result plus a bootable USB recovery thumb drive that I have already used a couple of times for other maintenance work. Mucho thanko!

@charginginprogresss 6 ай бұрын

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'...

@GRAFFIXCLAN666 3 ай бұрын

I am literally having this problem right now lol.

@SORB2000 6 ай бұрын

I used Macrium reflect. Worked perfectly.

@gerydblackmore5484 6 ай бұрын

have used macrium reflect for years, also use acronis which is great. x

@CoMmAnDrX 6 ай бұрын

Even though they killed the Free version it is still one of the best IMHO

@gerydblackmore5484 6 ай бұрын

@@CoMmAnDrX still works to create an img.

@DragonKingGaav 6 ай бұрын

I thought this was going to be the software that Rich used.

@gilbertotrevisan6538 6 ай бұрын

I'm too, it worked with whatever stuff i throw on it

@GarysGeeks 6 ай бұрын

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

@Spacedog79 6 ай бұрын

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.

@The_DuMont_Network 6 ай бұрын

Good catch!

@mikimouse3001 6 ай бұрын

some disk clonning software have the option to skip the bad sectors in order to avoid porting those bad sectors to the new disk.

@Spacedog79 6 ай бұрын

@@mikimouse3001 Yes the bad sectors won't be copied, but that will mean the data from those areas that is copied will be garbage because it is incomplete so it will need to be corrected.

@greybeard5774 6 ай бұрын

If your disk has bad sectors, the entire cloning can fail and no disk check can help.

@trueriver1950 6 ай бұрын

@@greybeard5774 that actually depends on the software you are using AND on the actual errors. One use of a disk cloning program is to get a copy of all the readable data that you then give to your recovery program: that way your recovery program does not risk corruption the original data. It will very often be possible to recover most of the files from a non encrypted system that has a sprinkling of bad sectors. Whether that's worth the effort largely depends on whether you kept backups: which of course you always do anyway, right? 😉

@kirikayuumura3256 6 ай бұрын

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. .

@dontrend5956 6 ай бұрын

Acronis. There, I printed it for you.

@ObakuZenCenter 6 ай бұрын

You can write the name lol.

@bluehonour02 6 ай бұрын

The problem is in most cases the software coming with these drives is just some lame Windows software (SanDisk I am looking at you) for managing disks, recovering data etc. Nowhere near to cloning disks, working in live cd mode or anything like that.

@kirikayuumura3256 6 ай бұрын

@@ObakuZenCenter and @dontrend5956 - YT was being weird.... everytime I made the post with the software company's name, YT acted like it moderated the comment, so I posted w/o the name and it posted OK, and then the comment that appeared to be moderated re-appeared, hence my "double post" edit below

@genabuksuet 6 ай бұрын

Been Using Acronis for almost a decade, since I only buy Crucial SSDs and it comes with it, until the last time I attempted to copy all 3 drives from my old desktop to the new one. I screwed up all 3 drives, along with the backups on them. Not sure if it's Bitlocker or another reason.

@tonymarziano464 2 ай бұрын

This is brilliant! I've been searching for hours to find a cloning method to do exactly what you've just explained. You're a legend! Thanks mate.

@kier4n 5 ай бұрын

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!!

@salehkarali314 2 ай бұрын

Thx man I really like the way you troubleshoot, whenever I have any issue I always watch your content and always find solution. Thank you so mach keep it up 👍

@richmerkowitz6522 5 ай бұрын

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.

@GeekDynamicsLab 6 ай бұрын

All the software versións in hirens boot CD are the last free available, so all are free to use and all are the original versións

@ObakuZenCenter 6 ай бұрын

Good information. Thank you.

@CarbonGlassMan 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for the video. Using a second laptop, 2 SSD external cases & 2 of the USB ports on the old Lenovo laptop, I was able to clone my 512gb failing SSD to a new 2TB SSD by using my old laptop as a passthrough. Even my ACASIS NVMe M.2 Duplicator Dual-Bay Offline Clone USB C to NVME Docking Station would not work to clone the old SSD to the new one. I even made a bootable flash drive from the old failing SSD and that wouldn't install windows either. I can't believe I had this much trouble because I've cloned drives several times over the years when I upgraded to a larger drive. I've never had trouble cloning a drive. Even the 1st time I did it, before I knew about cloning, I made an image file from an old small drive and installed the image onto a new larger drive. Even that never gave me any problems. So if anyone is having the same kind of problems that I have been having, Lavasoft, 2 SSD caddies and a second computer to use as a passthrough is something you might try.

@BWGPEI 6 ай бұрын

Gotta love the "know how to do" displayed here. Many Thanks!

@karmicselling4252 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video. Easiest method is to clone existing HDD to an SSD of equal or larger capacity. Clonezilla does take a while to complete the cloning but it is probably the most reliable method of all. Obviously a good idea to back up all your data before doing anything like this. It is useful to run chkdsk or sfc on the C: Drive of the HDD to detect and fix any errors before cloning the HDD. That will take extra time especially with a large HDD but worth it for the peace of mind. I recently cloned a 2GB HDD to an external 2GB SSD via USB. Total size of files was in the order of 1.7GB. The whole process inc. an initial "chkdsk c: /r" took just over 3 hours using a 5yo Lenovo Notebook with an Intel I7 processor and USB 3.0. Installed the SSD into the Notebook and it's running a treat. Cheers from the Land Down Under.

@FlyboyHelosim 5 ай бұрын

Do you mean a 2TB HDD? There's no way cloning a 2GB HDD should take over 3 hours. Also, there's now Rescuezilla, which is Clonezilla but with a GUI. It's what most people are switching to.

@ShookD 6 ай бұрын

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.

@mudnwitthemob 2 ай бұрын

Did it reset all your PC Settings and make u essentially like reset your Pc or was all data and settings saved through the cloning process?

@juzf 6 ай бұрын

On win10 I use mini tool partition wizard free v.9 , newer ones have blocked functions to copy partitions etc, it is intuitive and easy to use. You do not need any pendrives

@diggee172 6 ай бұрын

I love your desk. Most desk thes days are not deep enough for me. Did you make it yourself or is available online?

@bengie23 Ай бұрын

Process 1 didn't work for me, for whatever reason the new ssd wasn't bootable, but process 2 worked perfectly, thanks!!

@MrShadownoise Ай бұрын

Not free (it's GBP50 hardware) but Sabrent make a dual-bay USB3 dock for 2.5" & 3.5" SATA drives which has a 'clone' button. It's fast - about 5mins per GB on SSD - and utterly reliable IME. For cloning it's standalone and doesn't use a computer. You only plug in the USB3 cable when using it for computer access to the drives. Unfortunately it can't use VME drives. But I'm sure there'll be one along soon. The only slight downside is that it also clones the disk signature, which makes substitution of the new drive very reliable, but you can't re-use the old disk in the same system as Disk Manager spots the collision and won't mount the drive. However you can force Disk Manager to mount it and overwrite the signature (Right Mouse button click option on the unmounted disk).

@Jeff1960G 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for the video. Question from a newbie, please excuse me if I don't explain to well. I have a 500gb SSD running Windows 10 on my desktop and I was told by my system that it (CPU) is not compatible with Windows 11 upgrade; That really means I would need an entire new build probably (my current gaming comp is 7 years old and well tweak back then) and if so, can I take my SSD and install on a new computer/motherboard? I would hate to lose all my files and have to start all over. Thank you again!

@fragalot 6 ай бұрын

it's also a good idea to run disk cleanup to remove crap to make the cloning process be a little faster. you might also go through some of your user files you may want to delete, or move to another drive, to help speed up the cloning.

@trueriver1950 6 ай бұрын

That depends. Clean up will not help a sector by sector copy: which by definition copies every sector (at least, every readable sector) If doing a file by file copy then your advice is spot on. The fewer files to copy the sooner it's done 😊

@TheForce_Productions 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for taking care our pockets Rich!

@CyberCPU 6 ай бұрын

Any time!

@sunilshrestha6251 6 ай бұрын

@@CyberCPU I'm in a bit of a bind. I tried setting up a dual boot with Linux, ran into partitioning issues, and now I'm stuck with "bad image error.exe" messages and file corruption problems. I've tried SFC scan, system restore, and reinstalling Windows, but nothing's worked. Any chance you could help me out with this?

@arniep740 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for this video. I followed this method exactly to clone my Dell Optiplex 7010 W10Pro to a NVME 2tb in a USB adapter. The clone took about 20 hours and put up a note that it was successful. I then disable the internal SSD and set the BIOS to boot from the USB connected NVME. It gave me the following errors: 1. No boot sector found, Press F1 2. F1 rebooted and this resulted in the W10 logo on the screen for a while before it threw up a message: "stop code: inasscessible boot device" 3. IT then rebooted itself and gave the message "No boot disk found", press F1 4. WHen I pressed F1 this time, it threw up a list of choices for F1 through F9. F4 and F5 booted it into SAfe Mode, F5 being with network. These both worked. So now I have this machine which will boot into safe mode from the clone, but will not boot normally. Any suggestions as to what I may have done wrong and how to fix it? Thanks....ArnieP

@skorpian34 4 ай бұрын

I'm a tech but out of practice and my training was 15 yrs ago. I'm trying to brush off the cobwebs. You may have solved your issue already. If not. Or in case it helps others.. my somewhat similar problem may help you. I cloned my drive following advice here and ran into a snag when I couldn't boot up on the new drive. 'No operating system found'. And the old drive would not work as a boot disk via usb. And I did not want to tear down the laptop again to pop the old drive back in because it was almost a complete teardown to access the hard drive bay. And stupid me, no backup of any kind, or recovery disc. I ran hardware diagnostics. The new drive passed all the tests as did the new ram stick I added. Then I used Hirens to boot up and checked the partitions. The cloning process added a new partition to my target drive. I didn't want to wipe the possibly wrong partition to try and get it to work. So I booted up with Hiren's boot cd PE (on bootable usb) did a list disk, select disk, then clean in diskpart. Then made it GPT. Then create partition primary. Followed by a fresh install. ( I had to let the windows install process DELETE the partition then chose NEW.) So note to me for the future, note size, type and order of partitions and do a full system backup and/or recovery discs or system image to external usb hard disc in case something goes awry during the cloning process.

@kokodin5895 6 ай бұрын

you CAN clone bigger drive to smaller drive with clonezilla though if partition is smaller than destination drive or is it the last partition on a drive and the total used space is smaller than the size of a target drive you can enable an option to ignore destination drive checking. if you avdenturous you can also try scaling filesystem partition table proportionally the only problem with clonezilla i see is lack of support for cloning raid0 drives indyvidually

@Nixima81 6 ай бұрын

Grate info for any clones out there. You can also buy an Samsung SSD and get there clone software and do it true it.

@skatcat743 6 ай бұрын

Clonezilla can expand to full size too.

@trueriver1950 6 ай бұрын

Yes: good free software in both senses of the term; and it's well tested as it's been around forever...

@chrissimpson1183 6 ай бұрын

I remember diskcopy in the DOS era...

@ObakuZenCenter 6 ай бұрын

Damn, that's such a blast from the past. Thanks.

@aubsmm 6 ай бұрын

That was for floppy disks not hard drives

@jcar287 12 күн бұрын

Just did this cloned my sons SATA to a 2TB M.2 NVME. Thank you so much! Super easy

@user-ss6zt2mo1l 6 ай бұрын

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 ❤

@jaymurray6051 5 ай бұрын

You seem to know your stuff love to see you fix my pc with its constant Dissapearing D drive an inability to use it when it does appear

@vla2uv 6 ай бұрын

Here is the scenario: using Aomei Bacupper and do a backup of your system drive and the system drive is installed on a particular brand and specifications, and on some point it crashes; buy a new SSD on a different brand and specifications with at least the same capacity on which you want to restore the previous backup; can it be restored that backup in such case like this? Namely, should the restoring SSD be the same brand and specifications, with the backed-up one or can it be different? Hope you can and would answer to this comment since you never mention this scenario in ANY of your video either of backing-up or cloning circumstance.

@drdr73 6 ай бұрын

easiest clone i did was from my existing toshiba 500gb hdd to samsung evo..1tb.using the Samsung migration app....fantastic....no data loss....no hassles with bitlocker locked source disk...bitlocker can be a P-i-t-a when not wanted...i faced with macrium reflect 2 yrs ago....when cloning was free using that app

@The_DuMont_Network 6 ай бұрын

Man, I disable Bitlocker awhile back when it bit me rather severely on my hindparts. I have other ways of securing my data involving physical locks and poweder actuated tools.

@The300lbGorilla-xd3vg 28 күн бұрын

I have an OLD Apricorn Drive Cloner that uses Easy-GIG (Software No longer available as of 11/2023) I was able to clone a HDD to SSHD for a 12 year old HP Win 7 Home Premium Laptop. I used the two USB ports on my Lenovo 330 Laptop. The HDD was connected vis a SATA to USB cable, and the NEW SSHD was connected via the Apricorn Drive Cloner Cable. It did take an hour to clone, but man, the old HP laptop sure runs faster now, and the customer was really happy.

@warwagon 6 ай бұрын

Personally, i'm still using True Image 2016. Mostly because it still works. I just like how you choose the source and destination while cloning. Its so simple. I find Macrium reflect to be less straight forward when it comes to cloning than True Image 2016.

@FlyboyHelosim 5 ай бұрын

True Image 2016 is a bit of a gem. I've got a copy of it saved in my software archive. In the last few years I've been using True Image 2020, but that's just not as good. It's bloated and has a bunch of unnecessary stuff added such as anti-ransomware functionality that makes it much more of a system hog. It's also terrible at calculating the time a clone will take, often it's only half of what it says.

@juanroldan4379 6 ай бұрын

Thanks! I need to clone my drive from a 128g to a 1TB. This helps.

@PaganWizard 5 ай бұрын

In this video, you created a clone of your C drive, or the drive containing your OS. I have a secondary internal drive that I want to replace, but only because of size. This drive is also where I installed all of my Steam video games, close to 2TB, and I'm upgrading to a 6TB drive. Can you do a similar video showing how to do this please??

@artomontonen3722 28 күн бұрын

Thanks Hirens Boot for the video. I finally got the C drive clone. Lazesoft Disk Image & Clone is different. Possibly a new version. When copying the C drive, I paid attention to the disk identification. The default is different identification and I didn't like that because the copy has to be a perfect clone. Otherwise everything went through ok. Now I remove indexing from the hard drives of the same PC, because it takes too much CPU power from my old PC. Maybe my PC will be faster if it doesn't index hard drive every moment. The indexing setting came up when looking at the properties of the drive letter.

@davidwayne9982 6 ай бұрын

I do it regularly with BALENA ETCHER-- and no issues yet... works GREAT- simple-- so simple a ...... man can do it (to paraphrase an insurance commercial).. I keep data on a Separate drive from any of my op systems (and I am running 3 different ones right now)... I've done this a lot of way- including DD etc... but it's just MUCH cleaner, neater, and easier with BALENA ETCHER and it doesn't MATTER how it's connected..

@genabuksuet 6 ай бұрын

Etcher for the win! Tested and trusted!

@cj_zak1681 24 күн бұрын

Thanks for the video - I used Lazesoft to clone a 1tb HDD to a 2tb HDD as my old HDD was almost full, at 960gb. I ticked "Fit partitions to entire disk" like you suggested but it doesn't seem to have worked out like I thought it was going to. I thought it was going to 'stretch' the F:drive like in your example but it seems to have created a new partition altogether, which I have had to assign a letter G to. I did think I could extend the disk in Disk Management but the option was greyed out so all I could do was assign a new drive letter. So now I have an almost full F: drive and an empty G: drive

@brettess52 3 ай бұрын

The Lazesoft disk cloning software is really comprehensive. But if your target disk is bigger than 80 GB you'll need to purchase the registered version.

@bi0lizard1 5 ай бұрын

Ty for the video. 👍 I think I’m just too old now to understand this stuff. Getting old sucks.

@matthewjv123567 6 ай бұрын

You get SATA to USB dongles which support a power input for those that need it.

@The_DuMont_Network 6 ай бұрын

The boxes which supply local power with a couple of SATA slots and an old interface cable are cheap, reliable and simple to use.

@UberGeek 6 ай бұрын

Thanks! I have been using Acronis forever, it appears. Good to know there is a great alternative. I have Sabrent USB 3.0 To SATA/IDE Adapter that includes a power supply for SATA. I also use SSK M.2 NVME SSD (to USB C) Enclosure, both work great.

@CyberCPU 6 ай бұрын

I love acronis but it's not free.

@sunilshrestha6251 6 ай бұрын

I'm in a bit of a bind. I tried setting up a dual boot with Linux, ran into partitioning issues, and now I'm stuck with "bad image error.exe" messages and file corruption problems. I've tried SFC scan, system restore, and reinstalling Windows, but nothing's worked. Any chance you could help me out with this? @@CyberCPU

@josemedeiros007 4 ай бұрын

@@CyberCPU There are free versions of Acronis for Seagate, Western Digital, Crucial and Kingston drives. I also noticed that Acronis was an option in the Hirens Boot PE version you showed in your video, is that version not free to use?

@CyberCPU 3 ай бұрын

@@josemedeiros007 unfortunately the acronis in hiren's boot CD requires a license to use.

@Wile-E-Coyote_Super_Genius 6 ай бұрын

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

@CesareVesdani 3 ай бұрын

HDD & SSD clone is fun.

@jamesyankovich8074 6 ай бұрын

I need to clone my C: drive, a 256gb SSD to a larger 1TB SSD, to make a backup for safekeeping and to get around Windows 10 KB5034441 error, caused by the recovery partition being too small. Watching your video gave me hope of extending this partition using your method without the normal danger of partition expanding. Did I understand this correctly?

@CyberCPU 6 ай бұрын

Yes, you can pretty safely adjust all the partition sizes with that tool.

@sunilshrestha6251 6 ай бұрын

@cybernit3 6 ай бұрын

I googled that WIndows 10 KB error and read thru...one of replies said he increase of his/her windows recovery partition from like 500 MB to 3 GB...then it worked, but then I saw others did this and didn't work. It would be good if Microsoft had a fix workaround tool to fix your SSD after you migrate Windows to another SSD. Luckily, I don't have to do this since I got a new computer. Hope this helps...

@aleksandergjengst782 5 ай бұрын

WOW,after having issue by issue trying to boot OS onto a new ssd and new m2 slot this was by far the EASIEST way😅 ..took five mins🔥🔥

@mudnwitthemob 2 ай бұрын

Did it reset all your PC Settings and make u essentially like reset your Pc or was all data and settings saved through the cloning process?

@Knards 6 ай бұрын

A suggestion: A tutorial on how to fix CLSID and APPID errors from event viewer. "This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool." I saw one years ago, but this is now :)

@AceBoy2099 6 ай бұрын

I just did this to expand my proxmox disk. Ended up having to use my dual disk caddy that has a clone function to make the clone then had to figure out how to resize afterwords.

@OG_Eshwa 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for the tutorial, worked flawlessly.

@mudnwitthemob 2 ай бұрын

Did it reset all your PC Settings and make u essentially like reset your Pc or was all data and settings saved through the cloning process?

@MrKeenSharpeningService 6 ай бұрын

Links?????

@joeschafer1 5 ай бұрын

Since the video was made, Lazesoft disk clone wizard has added option to "Create a disk signature of your target disk that differs from the signature of your source disk." Should I leave that option checked or unchecked? Thanks for the Video!

@joeschafer1 5 ай бұрын

Actually you do probably do want to leave it unchecked, as a new signature will generally mess up your windows installation. It is not hard to change the signature after making the copy. to see disk signature on existing disk diskpart list disk select disk 0 ---or what ever volume your disk happens to be uniqueid disk you can take the id given by the last command and set your new disk to it by typing: uniqueid disk id=youridfromabove replace youridfromabove with disk signature that you want.

@joeschafer1 5 ай бұрын

Just make sure to remember to remove one of the disk before you boot and never put two disk with the same signature on the same system when you power it up (because windows will auto change one of the signatures to avoid a signature conflict)

@robertcartier5088 6 ай бұрын

20:24 Why are we booting back into Hiren's when Windows itself already has the Disk Management tool to adjust partition size? What am I missing? 🤔 (Can it not also move the other partition out of the way? Did I just answer my own question? lol)

@CSSZiegler 6 ай бұрын

Can you do a comparison video of CloneZilla and RescueZilla?

@dominicj 6 ай бұрын

same essentially, rescuezilla uses a gui whereas clonezilla does not

@RainHeaven 2 ай бұрын

you rock, thanks for solving my problem..

@toxichomicide3393 Ай бұрын

Your vid just helped me man thanks

@pharphrobrien401 6 ай бұрын

Nice desktop wallpaper!

@CyberCPU 6 ай бұрын

Thanks! 😁

@sunilshrestha6251 6 ай бұрын

@andrewjutub 6 ай бұрын

i love You, man. This is what I've recently need it

@bradspitts3077 6 ай бұрын

I had a password on my windows source drive, Does the destination drive remove the windows password from source drive during the cloning process??????

@b.g.4147 6 ай бұрын

@CyberCpu Tech I think ive been watched your video about Ultimate Windows Tweaker and you show changes we can in regeddit etc to reduce it's high usage, but i cant remember

@markbowler6344 18 күн бұрын

I'm getting an error from Lazesoft at the end of the clone process saying that it failed to update the MBR and partition and then have had trouble booting from the new drive, so not sure what to do? I don't really want to use the Clonezilla method as the Lazesoft one took over an hour. The source disk is a 256GB NVMe M.2 still connected to the motherboard, the destination is a 1TB 2.5" SSD connected via the sata connectors. I'm not sure whether it's the reason for the error but as the destination disk was brand new, when I first fired up Hiren's, I had to initialise the partition info on it and I set it to GPT rather than MBR as I believe that would be the correct type for Windows 11.

@Diesel735 6 ай бұрын

Migrating "only the OS" from desktop 2TB HDD with a large data partition to a Crucial 500GB SATA SSD didn't work with the included True Image cloning software. Just stops processing at one point. Clock keeps spinning and then suddenly disappears? Macrium reflect free V.8 appears to have an option for selecting partitions off the HDD and clone to smaller SSD.... Not sure if this will work? Want to keep the 2TB HDD in the desktop as a cheap storage drive.

@kenmorris2858 6 ай бұрын

Great tutorial and many thanks. Love the car models on the shelf. I see a 1967 Pontiac GTO , 1960s VW pickup stretche and a 1960s Porsche Spyder. Is the other car a 1968 Dodge Charger? Love the old muscle cars and hot rods...Cheers from Nova Scotia.

@CyberCPU 6 ай бұрын

Yes, it's a 68-69 RT. There's also a Murcielago if you look close.

@CyberCPU 6 ай бұрын

Ohh, you can't forget the Back to the future DeLorean. 😂🤣

@sunilshrestha6251 6 ай бұрын

@joseparada4430 5 ай бұрын

A doubt. Clone disk will contain a System (usually Windows), Can I delete it ? Better leave it? What do you suggest about it?

@taalofaa 6 ай бұрын

What is needed is a drive copy utility which clones a larger size OS drive to a smaller hard drive

@CyberCPU 6 ай бұрын

The first method will do that.

@sunilshrestha6251 6 ай бұрын

@tr4x1ymus 6 ай бұрын

you can expand partition size from inside windows in the disk manager utility. just right click and select expand. don't go starting up hirens boot cd for small tasks like that

@mutazkojeh2061 5 ай бұрын

Keep going, you're awesome 👍

@loopers822 6 ай бұрын

Hi, gone OK up until the point of booting from the USB drive, for some reason my son's hp laptop running Windows 11 will not detect it as a boot option. I have checked on my Medion laptop that it boots Ok from the USB and all fine. I've gone through many guides over the past few hours on setting the hp BIOS for booting from USB but still no luck, any ideas?

@loopers822 6 ай бұрын

For info, I found the issue was Rufus defaulted to FAT32, I chnaged to NTFS and the HP laptop picked up the USB with HirensCD on

@abdulrehmankhan8516 4 ай бұрын

Can u Make Video On Cloning Small Nvme To Bigger Nvme ..

@CyberCPU 4 ай бұрын

This would be the video. I would do it exactly the same. Just use the nvme adapter I show in the video instead of the SATA one.

@grimsnig 5 ай бұрын

I did this just as you say but I couldn't get my laptop to boot to the thumb drive with my other laptop's source disk connected to my hosting laptop. So I had to start my hosting laptop with the boot drive then plug in my source drive through the USB and I already had plugged in the new SSD to my host laptop USB. It worked perfectly. But I can tell you it took 2 hrs trying to get the boot drive to load instead of the source drive. Crazy. but I got it thanks to you and this video. Some other cloning software may not have liked how it had to go through 2 USB ports to transfer that data efficiently.

@ausfoodgarden 6 ай бұрын

Does the Lavasoft software copy disks with errors? I've tried to clone an old SSD to an NVME with Clonezilla but it keeps saying there are errors even though the original drive works fine and Windows doesn't find any problems. I'll give it a go anyway.

@user-sc3ns1cg1j 5 ай бұрын

Excellent tutorial, Can you please advise whether this copy all application registration with their key.

@scktch8933 6 ай бұрын

Hello, I follow most of your videos and they are very useful I wish you success in your business I work in a computer store. Most computers come without Windows preinstalled So I install Windows for each device, one unit at a time I also download the hardware drivers for each device from the factory website This consumes my time and effort Also, duplicate the loaded drivers Do you have solutions? like Installing Windows on five devices at the same time, automatically installing drivers and applications .. something like that please

@petar0402 6 ай бұрын

How I clone my disks: dd if=/dev/sourcedisk (eg. /dev/sda) of=/dev/destinationdisk (eg. /dev/sdb) bs=1M status=progress

@trueriver1950 6 ай бұрын

That's great if the new disk is slightly larger than the old. It's big trouble if the new disk is smaller It leaves you with issues of wasted space on the new disk is the new disk is a LOT larger than the original, especially with an OS that insists on its recovery position being at the far right. Windows I'm looking at you here ... So in many cases the traditional Unix way let's you down.

@petar0402 6 ай бұрын

@@trueriver1950 Indeed.

@CaptOverShoot 6 ай бұрын

Hi Rich, How about doing it again X3, I have the Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE 1.0 MoBo it has two M.2 connectors. I currently have the ( M.2A_ CPU ) occupied with the operating system , I wish to fit a faster and larger M.2 in it's place. Could I insert a new M.2 drive into the slot below ( M.2B_SB ) then clone the main drive, then swap it into the M.2A_CPU slot? Window 11 pro 64 Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE 1.0 , Ryzen 7 5800X3D, LPX 32GB (DDR4-3200) Gigabyte RTX™ 3060 Ti Gigabyte 1TB M.2 PCIe NVMe "C" Drive

@bkThund3r 6 ай бұрын

I use the dd command in linux when I have to clone an old hdd/ssd to a new one. Never tried it with windows partitions but in theory, it should work as it copies everything. Just need a USB with any linux distro', your old hdd installed or on a USB dongle, and new ssd installed or o. USB dongle. Be careful when running the dd command as it can erase the wrong drive.

@2L8M8Basher 6 ай бұрын

Cant you just use windows Disk Managment to extend the hard drive?

@KeithHanlan 2 ай бұрын

A much simpler and safer way to clone a drive (Windows or otherwise) is to boot Linux from a USB thumb drive and use the 'dd' command. This avoids all the risks of reading from an active file system, including your c: drive. No suspect third-party software is required. There are even options to tolerate bad blocks on the original drive. If the new drive is larger than the original, you can extend it using the standard Windows partition management tools.

@ATEKXX 6 ай бұрын

can we see some performance tests & New features on WIn 11 DEV build 24H2! :)

@aaronbeaty3980 6 ай бұрын

@CyperCPU: Video suggestion: Initially, you brought up CHKDSK /F, which is great. You might try doing a video on CHKDSK (/F vs. /R)? /R tries to remap sectors on disk platters with bad sectors, and use the NTFS journal to do it, which is why it takes so long.

@CyberCPU 6 ай бұрын

Yes, that's true. However, I haven't been in a situation where I needed R instead of F and F is a lot faster.

@sunilshrestha6251 6 ай бұрын

@fbifido2 6 ай бұрын

@20:13 - if you did not do a sector-by-sector copy would it allow you to copy a 1TB HDD (that has only 60GB of data+os) to a smaller SSD, eg 256GB ??

@bdwilcox 6 ай бұрын

It depends on the cloning software's capability.

@Micharus 6 ай бұрын

I did this a few months back. I upgraded my OS drive to a M.2 drive and cloned my mechanical OS drive to the M.2 drive with zero issues. My PC starts *so* fast now it's rediculous. Can't remember which program I used though.

@ObakuZenCenter 6 ай бұрын

You need to also install the right chipset drivers, if you haven't already, In which case this comment is for those who don't know that after changing hardware, such as to a new boot drive or motherboard, it's best practice to use the chipset drivers directly downloaded from either the AMD, or Intel websites. Different motherboards for example have different chipset drivers and even if the system seems to be working, fine, not having the correct and specific drivers needed (which Windows Update doesn't always pick up on), can lead to file corruption and loss of performance.

@rashmipatel4602 6 ай бұрын

There was a little round sticker on that screw (that holds the SSD Drive) which I have now removed (This is my very first time opening this laptop ever) That screw (that holds the SSD Drive) is NOT budging, what do I need to do to loosen that so that I can switch that out with my new SSD drive?

@Jamman4life 6 ай бұрын

Thank you man, you are a gigachad! 👍

@kyridd 4 ай бұрын

What if i dont want data on the target drive deleted? im just trying to move all files over. The title does say "without losing data" after all.

@RobertKeenanComp-U-Right 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video, could I ask what type of desk your using?

@CyberCPU 6 ай бұрын

It's actually not a desk. They are two adjustable work benches from Home Depot.

@RobertKeenanComp-U-Right 6 ай бұрын

May I have The Name Or Link Please?@@CyberCPU

@sunilshrestha6251 6 ай бұрын

@ranaldmclean985 4 ай бұрын

I see you using a virtual setting all the time, can you do a you tube on how to do this and what program to download?

@CyberCPU 4 ай бұрын

Not sure what you are referring to.

@startrekuniverse8408 6 ай бұрын

Well the links of the mentioned software are not in the description, so where are those gone to? And of course. We are cloning from a small drive to a lager one. That's no challenge. Try to do it to a smaller drive. That's a challenge. I Would Love to see video's cloning from larger to smaller drivers.

@ObakuZenCenter 6 ай бұрын

It takes five seconds to google the links.

@richh650 4 ай бұрын

Good video. Does this work on a Win 10 PC that would not load Win 11 due to being slightly out of spec for Win 11? I want to use Win 11 in the future on my PC, so can one use this method to load Win 11 instead into the Win 10 when swapping disks?

@anshumansingh8513 3 ай бұрын

What's the difference between copying the whole drive from cloning the drive

@booom2314 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@SignorFurio 6 ай бұрын

Thanks worked great! XD

@mikimouse3001 6 ай бұрын

you're making things a little more complicated than they should be. just get a usb stick , install ventoy on it then add a clonezilla live image on it and youre set. i've backed up my hdd to an iso image and it took less than 10 minutes with a resulting file size of 13 gb, and to restore the image to a new hdd it only took it around 7 min. the backup was done via usb on another usb stick. it works so well it feels like magic.

@B._Smith 6 ай бұрын

My new laptop loads hiren's but has no mouse from the track pad. I read in some forum my computer is too new there is no driver in hirens that works 😢

@Jim77774 5 ай бұрын

Hello sir why i cannot format my drive?

@Samuitsuki 3 ай бұрын

My first cloning didn't work, I did another attempt where I had unchecked the "create a disk signature of your target disk that difffers from the signature of your source disk" and that worked, but not entirely sure if that had anything to do with it.