How to Clone a Large Hard Drive to Smaller SSD

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If you currently have a traditional hard drive and noticed that things are slowing down on your PC, your traditional spinning hard drive could be part of the problem, SSDs are fantastic for speeding up older systems or even newer systems and the price has come down quite a bit on them! If you don't want to deal with the hassle of reinstalling Windows after swapping the drive out, you can clone it instead. This video will show you one method to do just that.
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Macrium Reflect Free: www.macrium.com/reflectfree
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@richneil5819 10 ай бұрын

Just what I was looking for. Thank you!

@Grim0954 Жыл бұрын

Completed in 5 minutes 16 seconds without any problems, thank you. 🥳 I have to change boot priority because I'm keeping the TB in the PC. 😉

@sbkchess5505 Жыл бұрын

Man? Thanks for the value you added, i just bought 512gb ssd and followed you exactly how you did it. and my HP is faster than i thought..

@ariesrising7257 7 ай бұрын

Great video!! Just the facts...nicely done!

@Erikku-Sama 9 ай бұрын

It worked like a charm. Thank you mate.

@jacklabloom635 6 ай бұрын

Extremely helpful. Thank you.

@alleywatch22 Жыл бұрын

Followed your video exactly and it worked like a charm, was previously getting a cloned failed error 8 message but not any more, cheers 😂

@GavinKuo Жыл бұрын

I want to say thank you! This video saves a lot of my time!

@ezekielgskeen8607 Жыл бұрын

awesome understandable info video, thank you so much! salute to from UK 🔥

@joaquinmoreno8213 8 ай бұрын

You're the man. Followed the tutorial and it worked like a charm!! I had bought the laptop of my dreams, I do multimedia, an Alienware 17 R. The hard drive was always at a 100% so it was useless, hope this fixes the problem with a new SSD drive.

@mdd1963 7 ай бұрын

SSDs became pretty much mandatory since prices fell to reasonable in about 2015, 2016...; night and day difference!

@PrashanthS1992 Жыл бұрын

worked perfectly. thanks!

@Ironsja11 Жыл бұрын

Excellent, thank you sir!

@Mightea 3 ай бұрын

I want to high five you. I didn't need the shrinking portion for mine but everything else, I was able to follow without a hitch. Thanks!

@TP_1987 8 ай бұрын

ขอบคุณมากครับ Thank you for your guid, easy to follow and quick to under stand.

@jesus3lovesyou 5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much bro❤❤

@hugozapata1298 Жыл бұрын

Great video!! Very clear and to the point, it helped me a lot! Thank you !!

@M_X1 Жыл бұрын

Great vid

@Mendokusai931 11 ай бұрын

thank you so much

@onienlol 7 ай бұрын

Great tutorial, Went from a 2TB NVME to a 256GB NVME, reason for this is because I dont use the 2TB in my laptop that much at all so I wanted to downgrade it and put the 2TB inside my PC.

@adewaleobaro2081 7 ай бұрын

This is the most simple and effective way I found on youTube. You saved my life from 24 hours stress

@uzogaming3456 4 ай бұрын

thanks

@bartypants 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tutorial, that was great.

@GarbanzoBeansFan Жыл бұрын

Nice

@JosephKarthic 8 ай бұрын

Thankyou so much ,, this is the only method that works so easily, we are tricking the system by unallocating space and make the target disk look like the exact replica of source disk, Genius solution...

@dbmrktr Жыл бұрын

Thank You! Very helpful. Old PC is so much more responsive with SDD and additional RAM!

@iSaucyy_Boii Жыл бұрын

Is there any way to like take half my storage or just whatever I want and transfer it from hdd to ssd? Like windows and games?

@Fred7038 4 ай бұрын

I just installed a 1 TB Hard drive in my pc. I partitioned it in half roughly and installed windows 11 . I want to copy my my windows 10 onto the second half of the hard drive. I downloaded the trial but I only want to clone the windows 10 to the second half of the drive and have a dual boot Windows 10/11 off of the new drive. Every time I go through the clone steps with just the new partition selected it looks like it wants to use the whole drive and just not the partition. Is there anyway to make it go just to the partitioned area? Thanks

@themenon 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for this. Does this process work for windows 11?

@1337FaJa 9 күн бұрын

Hey man, don't know if you're still active, but your video was very informational. My problem is, that I can't shrink my volume ver much, just by like 200GB. I need to shrink my 1,9TB to 0,9TB and it is somehow impossible. I only have like 400GB of stuff on my drive.

@arttheseven5526 7 ай бұрын

7:22 I had to use shrink even though I have already shrunk the 1tb windows partition to 250gb... Yep "shrinking" also worked. Also bought a new sata to usb3 adapter. Now the laptop is super fast. Before the bottleneck was the hdd/ram, now its the cpu. 😂

@petardragicevic1612 10 ай бұрын

What if u have partition C and D does that make any diffrence

@LoraxPendragon 4 ай бұрын

I tried this method, but the in use system files did not get transferred to the new ssd. Any ideas on how to solve this? I tried using minitool partition wizard, but it would freeze every time after transferring 55.53mb after it reboot to transfer system files.

@denverwilliams3005 Жыл бұрын

Would this cord work for the ps3 console. plug into ps3 console to copy save data to ssd.

@Thunder_RTX 9 ай бұрын

I’m cloning the disk from 700GB WD HDD to SP 512GB SSD. I shrinked the 700GB HDD to 465GB so its equal to the ssd size. But, when I try to clone it, at 59% it gives an error code 9. Please help me!

@dhilipkumarganeson390 7 ай бұрын

@thunder_rtx . Same to me getting error code 9 at 49%. Did you managed to get cloned after that?

@vikingvisigoth4384 4 ай бұрын

I have a 5mb difference and the wavelink cloner dock won't let me do it.

@iCOGNiTOSHiNOBi Жыл бұрын

Getting blue screens and error message and changed bios order no luck help please

@toddwmac 2 ай бұрын

Thanks man. My Shrink function only does a small part of the drive. it is a 500g drive but the C: is only about 50G. Shrink only frees up about 70 gig. I've run the optimizer in Win 11 to relocate sectors, but no improvement in the Shrink option. Any ideas? Thanks a ton!

@Trueno102 Ай бұрын

Use shrink to fit option. It worked for me.

@erichepperlewp Жыл бұрын

#UPDATE: Macrium Reflect is no longer free -- this video was published 6 months ago and in that time, they have change it to not be free. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jtuXerR_yrSlpok.html

@Trueno102 Ай бұрын

Use shrink or extend to fill new ssd if you cant shrink it to size. Im copying to a 250gb ssd and the 1tb hard drive would only shrink 56gb but still showing 900gb.

@rpatel9901 Жыл бұрын

why do you have to select partitions exact fit? doesnt selecting clone copy them over to the ssd at the same sizer ie exact fit?

@kocreeper2438 3 ай бұрын

welp my case is diff in the partition manager, it shows that my (c) drive partition is 100% used and no free space left. but when i go to file explorer, the (c) drive folder only took 20% of my 1tb hdd. from what i see, it says smth abt bit locker. i dont understand much abt bit locker but this channel might help if u ask them. ok going back to the shrinking partition, by shriking thr partition, it could now make space manually for my clone disk software to clone available partition to my new ssd. i suck ass at explaining so i hope u understood 😅😅🤣

@rpatel9901 3 ай бұрын

did mine a year ago but from what i recall it was possible to change the partition sizes using Macrium reflect software. What i did was to run the disk cleanup in windows first and deleted things like windows restore files and old win update files etc and also manually backed up important files to my NAS then cloned it

@thewaterheaterfactory 7 ай бұрын

Great video I have a question so I have the same problem with the laptop older much older, but I’m going in the other direction so I bought an SSD hard drive that’s 2 TB and I’m removing the current hard drive that’s 569 GB. I’ve already cloned it and installed it, but the problem is I have no more room left on my: drive which is causing my computer to run horribly I need to expand the partition of my drive by utilizing the extra available space on the new 2 TB hard drive. Is it possible to do that without damaging all the files that are on that drive? So it’s already cloned and installed. It’s running much faster which is great but I still have not enough hard drive space space on my sea drive issues, plus I’m not utilizing the remaining terabytes. Thanks for your help.

@thewaterheaterfactory 7 ай бұрын

Oh I see I can definitely do it. I just need to expand the volume on my new hard drive. Got it. Thanks again for your help. Can I do this in disk manager in Windows or do I need third-party software?

@IansTech 7 ай бұрын

You can do this with windows disk manager to expand it

@kamoteman7002 Жыл бұрын

do i need to format my old hdd after cloning it if i use it as a secondary drive? sorry for my english thankyou

@IansTech Жыл бұрын

If you want to use it as a secondary I would format it and then you can assign it as a letter or use it as a portable drive if you wanted

@donens9310 Жыл бұрын

There does not appear to be a free version anywhere. Tried your link and nothing appears for free. Tried a couple different trial versions and all have limitation tied to disk cloning and your video. Any ideas?

@IansTech Жыл бұрын

I did not realize they were taking the free version completely away. I do see it available here. m.majorgeeks.com/files/details/macrium_reflect_free_edition.html

@OShackHennessy Жыл бұрын

It’s not supported anymore but still works fine for now.

@smika710 3 ай бұрын

i miss when these drives were that cheap

@Roijun17 27 күн бұрын

So my windows os will be moved to my ssd after cloning?

@simtonicc Жыл бұрын

I'm getting errors it keeps stopping at 5% and then a pop up says what u want to do with this drive and then the drive dissappears (the one being cloned)

@alexgreis 3 ай бұрын

I had trouble with Macrium Reflect too. Instead, I used Aomei Backuper and all is fine.

@realcartoongirl 9 ай бұрын

why not use the optical bay as a hard drive with a optical to 2.5 adapter?

@IansTech 9 ай бұрын

My friend wanted to keep the optical drive.

@wsadewo Жыл бұрын

What about hard drive 1TB has 2 drive let say C and D?

@codykorzenowski6888 Жыл бұрын

What if my hdd is taking up more storage than the SSD I just got? I just want to put the operating system and some apps so I can use it as a boot drive

@1420MHZ Жыл бұрын

I'm trying to clone a 1TB drive (only 48GB in use, rest is free space) onto a 256GB SSD and try to shrink the volume, it says I can only shrink it by 32GB so the new size would still be 900+ GB.. It said this was due to unmovable data being located at certain location on the drive blah blah so I'm trying to defrag the drive.. How lame...

@1420MHZ Жыл бұрын

Well, defragging made no difference BUT if I individually moved all the partitions then moved the C: drive last, it auto-adjusted the free space and I was able to clone the drive successfully.

@romrom4597 2 ай бұрын

Can i format the HDD? So it will become empty?

@manojpradhan943 27 күн бұрын

Hey, I think your video is my last hope. Nothing else is working. Just one question. If I just clone all the important windows partitions from my HDD ( size accumulating upto 1 TB) onto my new SSD ( 512) GB using your method, there won't be any issues right ? As long the original data can fit inside 512 GB, the new SSD will become bootable after this process, correct ?

@55peterf Жыл бұрын

Hi great tutorial. However my desktop 1tb drive with 750gb free space will not shrink small enough to clone to a 500gb ssd and despite less than 250gb of used space it will only shrink to 490gb or so.. Any clues?

@IansTech Жыл бұрын

Do you have other partitions on the drive that are taking up space like a recovery partition?

@55peterf Жыл бұрын

@@IansTech Hi Ian . no other partitions. I thought I needed to shrink the drive small enough to clone the smaller drive but Macrium sorted it for me when I dragged and dropped the system reserved and windows 7 partitions over.

@IansTech Жыл бұрын

@@55peterf excellent glad it got sorted!

@chocoghost Жыл бұрын

What did you do with the old drive? I'm using my old drive as storage but it still has the partitions and some windows artifacts I can't delete

@IansTech Жыл бұрын

I keep them as spares. I would wipe it completely if you want to keep it as storage, just needs to be formatted correctly to work with Windows (or whichever OS you want to use it with)

@chocoghost Жыл бұрын

@@IansTech do you have a tool recommendation? I can't seem to wipe some partitions from disk manager

@OShackHennessy Жыл бұрын

@@chocoghost to wipe the disk type diskpart in search bar and it will bring up disk partition. Type list disk and it will give you all of the available drives on your pc by labeling them disk 0, disk 1, disk 2 etc. you won’t know which is which so you have to check them all. To do this type “select disk 0” and enter. It will select that disk for you. Next type “detail disk”. It will list all the details of each disk and you can just keep going through them with select and detail. Once you identify the correct disk make sure you have it selected with the “select disk *add number here*” command. When you are sure you have the correct disk type “clean”. It will unformat the disk such that when you go back into disk manager it will start you as a brand new disk. It’s actually very easy even though it may sound complicated.

@winfuture9814 Жыл бұрын

I recently rebooted my laptop so there is no Important files on my laptop. Is this process still necessary?

@felodp10 Жыл бұрын

No, this is only necessary if you want to copy all the disk's data

@steventherrien3854 27 күн бұрын

I cannot clone the drive…error 0…0x8004230f…do you know how to solve that ?

@KigraIz Жыл бұрын

If I clone this, All my apps,files, windows will be on the new ssd?

@IansTech Жыл бұрын

Yes everything exactly as it is now

@dre5973 Жыл бұрын

I want to clone 256gb hdd to 120gb ssd, when I go into disk management I can only shrink 31gb.. what do I do?

@imeprezime1069 Жыл бұрын

Buy bigger ssd

@twidieeeeeeee Жыл бұрын

I have windows 11 and I tried this but it did not work it always says cloning failed. 😞

@markbick3896 Жыл бұрын

Same here

@cees-gc8xt Жыл бұрын

thats the issue,, having your OS and programs all in one makes it slow

@mrbrown6421 4 ай бұрын

Dialog: MapAndValidateXML Failed. Wonder what that means... Anyway, yes, the clone is fine. Thanks!

@Winamp_ Жыл бұрын

Do i need be online connected to internet when doing the cloning and running the software? Or can I be offline when I do the cloning part? this is something I always wondered

@IansTech Жыл бұрын

You do not need to be online for the clone. The only time it would need to be online is if the application needed an update but doing a clone does not require internet.

@Winamp_ Жыл бұрын

@@IansTech Thank you Ian, I appreciate it my dude. Greetings from Swe!

@Ralph_Baric_PhD_C2019 4 ай бұрын

@@IansTech i am a noob, have given clonzilla a bit of a try, must be same size disk or larger etc. Must be booted from a usb drive etc. How does macrium handle running on the operating system that is being cloned? Isnt that a bad ides?

@ronwatkins5775 Жыл бұрын

Can macrium reflect clone a Linux boot drive?

@SpencerCourtis Жыл бұрын

...check with the Linux forum folk

@bubbyboyy 5 ай бұрын

I thought you had to be shutdown i.e out of windows to do this sort of cloning

@Moonuhhh Жыл бұрын

Can’t shrink my 2Tb hard drive small enough into my 512gb m.2 , how come?

@cpearson338 Жыл бұрын

did you figure this out???

@Moonuhhh Жыл бұрын

@@cpearson338 yes

@rahulverma8774 11 ай бұрын

@@MoonuhhhI hv a question Will shrinking effect my data Plz reply as fast as possible

@Moonuhhh 11 ай бұрын

@@rahulverma8774 no it won’t

@rahulverma8774 11 ай бұрын

@@Moonuhhh thanks

@fabioamado6725 Жыл бұрын

Where is the free option? I can only find the free TRIAL

@IansTech Жыл бұрын

Look for reflect free 8 - they no longer have new versions of the free one they had. But 8 is still on the site.

@fabioamado6725 Жыл бұрын

@@IansTech ok thank you 😊

@arp0811 Жыл бұрын

Hi, did you able to find the free option? I could not.

@fabioamado6725 Жыл бұрын

I didn’t find. From what i remember i used clonezilla with advanced option that allows to clone to a smaller SSD (I don’t remember what is the option but you can find videos about clonezilla about that)

@0165Akkiboi Жыл бұрын

bro looks like skitzy a.k.a. MrBeast from ohio and the 184 dollar ssd sitting inbetween budget ones: 🗿

@masterkronixster Жыл бұрын

Hey. If I follow this .will the old copy still be on the old HDD. Since it's a clone,right there should be the original..just confirming

@OShackHennessy Жыл бұрын

Yes it will still be there. I clone my OS every time I install a new one just in case I have an issue. This way after I set up the OS the way I like it which takes some time I have a spare OS just waiting for me. The computer could explode and all I need to do is drop my safe SSD clone in any system and my old computer is back online.