Using Clonezilla to Upgrade the SSD in a New Computer

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Жыл бұрын

Upgrading a new computer for my sister with a 1TB WD SN850X NVMe SSD.
This is also my first real foray into vertical video, and was kinda a test run for shooting, editing, and general workflow. So if it looks a bit odd on the main KZfaq platform, my apologies.
It's an HP Envy TE01-2275xt with an i7-11700 8-core 2.5GHz CPU and 16GB RAM. I originally purchased it during the height of the video card crunch, because it came with an RTX3060 at a reasonable price. I didn't end up using the computer itself, and though it's really not a "gaming" PC (that's how they sold it), it should be well more than sufficient for home productivity use.
Especially with a real snappy SSD.
I never even configured the OS on that disk, so it has a factory fresh Windows install. Hence why I'm not using Windows software to do the upgrade (WD provides Acronis True Image free of charge).

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@endosrt Жыл бұрын

The issue with your instruction is you tell us to select partition to partition, but when your video cuts back you are in disk to disk mode. IF YOU WANT THIS TO WORK, DONT SELECT PARTITION TO PARTITION MODE. Select DISK TO DISK mode. They key step is at the end where you select option "-k1" which will create the partition table proportionally in the target disk. Following your instructions as is will cause boot problems. You need to clarify this step, I'm not the only one who has had issues following this video.

@nikko Жыл бұрын

Yes, I was also confused with it. They selected partition to partition, but ghen proceeded with the disk to disk clone... Ive used clonezilla for years now and still got confused, thought they changed something... They should fix this.

@kylerdenton09 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment. I read this right before I proceeded with the clone.

@chizowen Жыл бұрын

This guy… big time life saver!!

@brianconnery2801 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this

@tenex 11 ай бұрын

if you do disk to disk how to fit it into a larger one? and what happen with disks with multiple partitions?

@FryChicken Жыл бұрын

Don't ever do vertical video again. Please.

@unnes Жыл бұрын

When I initially watched this video on my desktop, I was a bit annoyed that it was vertical. When I repeatedly referred back to it on my phone after I installed my m.2 into my PC, I was extremely grateful about the format 😅

@auditocanarsie7355 8 ай бұрын

Great video. The way you zoom in to the small text makes the video so much more helpful. Thank you.

@markcarter5568 Жыл бұрын

Thanks I just did this in the beginner mode for my expansion slot. The expert mode is what I will use to replace the other drive. Installing 2 back to back ssds and happy to use this!

@looseparts Жыл бұрын

Thankfully I found your fabulous video here as I was just about to do a laborious reinstall of Windows, Office... all my stuff... on the new bigger drive because when I cloned the smaller one, I did it in beginner's mode and go the same small partition I was upgrading away from! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU : -)

@JeremyStyninger Жыл бұрын

One of the better Clonezilla YTs. Worth the annoyance of vertical video on a PC. Also, I didn't like the vertical format!

@ScottDotDot Жыл бұрын

Thanks! And agreed, I hate vertical video. It's aggravating that so many platforms (including YT) are incentivizing vertical, but rather than be left in the past I figured I'd experiment with the format.. editing was no fun either, especially on 16:9 monitors. So I prob won't do it again, unless it's a Short or some crap where I have to.

@DarkVeilGaming Жыл бұрын

@@ScottDotDot I find vertical is good for videos where the person will most likely be consuming on a phone (aka, computer debugging issues and etc.) This video is a great example, since if you're booted into clonezilla, you're going to not be able to watch this :) Although I suppose most people have spare computers and other such devices...

@crazor01 11 ай бұрын

@@DarkVeilGaming How about just turning the phone to landscape mode…?

@StringerNews1 Жыл бұрын

Clonezilla is great. It's really and truly free, unlike a lot of "free" software that's just crippleware to waste your time then tell you that you need to pay to get the functionality that you need.

@mrfahrenheit94 Жыл бұрын

Following these directions exactly for a windows system with a Gpt configured drive (copying to a brand new ssd) completely broke booting. I had to boot to a windows installation drive, use diskpart to find out the system and recovery partitions were absolutely f*ed (they were listed as RAW), so I had to delete the EFI system partition, create a new one, and then repair the efi bootloader by using the bcdboot.exe tool to copy the UEFI boot environment files from the Windows system directory to the EFI boot partition and recreate the BCD bootloader configuration

@brianconnery2801 Жыл бұрын

Having the same issue. How did you go about doing this?

@thomasgolding2550 Жыл бұрын

Very informative. 👍👍

@tenex 11 ай бұрын

i think is the best video that i look around because you explained how to migrate to a larger one. idk if you have more videos explaining how to do an image first and recover from an image, how to do it from a disk with multiple partitions. btw now i’m struggling with a eager advanced 2019 it looks like nobody can clone it and people usually get an error like me after cloning error 0xc000000e

@tomski2671 Жыл бұрын

That 850x really needs a heatsink(WD sells a version with the heatsink). That might not be a huge issue with a productivity computer but the drive will start throttling if it gets too hot, plus there is potential for premature failure. Also as mentioned by many you want to be cloning Disk to Disk, to copy all correctly. You can resize the partitions afterwards.

@looseparts 5 ай бұрын

Ima slow learner. - Start, type 'disk man' WHAT ?!!! It's that easy ?

@EasleyDone. Жыл бұрын

Do you just set they first partitions of the source and target drives? will it just go down the source partition list and clone them all?

@mufeedco Жыл бұрын

Clonezilla is the only one true cloning software. It can clone different file systems. I clone all my linux systems with it.

@9bytehub Жыл бұрын

So was the point of this to carry over the product key? Isnt that a clean install asking you to pick a language? Does your saved files and applications not get carry over using clonezilla?

@user-qw6vl7sq1i 10 ай бұрын

Does the new drive need to be formatted before copying the source over? I am not seeing the destination drive in Clonezilla? I do see it in the syslog file.

@bullcrapptv Жыл бұрын

You never compared the Titan with the Titan Pocket. Where'd you go?

@sonnierart Жыл бұрын

I followed the instructions carefully and had an error during the process. Now my ORIGINAL HDD won't boot!!! Very frustrating!

@NinjaShadow47 Жыл бұрын

hey scott, i cloned my boot drive from old HDD to SSD and it worked fine. problem is now the old HDD no longer detected by windows, is there any way to restore it so i can have both drives available?

@ScottDotDot Жыл бұрын

Hmm.. that's strange. I'd start with the basics and make sure the HDD has power and is spinning, and that the SATA cable is seated properly on both ends. If you have other SATA ports available, try another one, and ensure they're all enabled in the BIOS (and that the HDD is showing up in the BIOS). Unless the drive randomly failed right after the clone process it should work. Oh, also open up Disk Management from the start menu and see if the HDD shows up in there. It's possible it's detected as a foreign disk, and you can just right click on it and import it. (Just some thoughts off the top of my head.)

@endosrt Жыл бұрын

Read my comment. You will now need to rebuild your boot files.

@endosrt Жыл бұрын

@@ScottDotDot Its the partition to partition mode you tell people to follow, its breaking things. It should be disk to disk with the -K1 option selected at the end

@ScottDotDot Жыл бұрын

@@endosrt In Oddo147's case, the old HDD is the one that stopped working. As long as the correct source/dest disks were selected, the original should be unaffected regardless of the mode/options selected in Clonezilla. And I mean, it could be I made a mistake.. but the video wasn't a ruse. I documented the actual process I used, and that machine has been booting/working fine for 2 months now. Unless I'm missing something?

@mrfahrenheit94 Жыл бұрын

Your video skips over the actual partition selection - are we supposed to run clonezilla 2-3 times to copy over the system reserve and recovery partitions to the new drive? Or are we just saying "peace out" to whatever other windows system and recovery partitions are on the original drive?

@FryChicken Жыл бұрын

I'm curious about this too. At 7:50 a partition to partition clone is specifically selected, when what you would need is a disk to disk clone, no?

@melkert81 Жыл бұрын

@@FryChicken Ya, I just tested this and my Samsung drive of course has 3-4 partitions. So, if you select one, it'll only copy the 1 to the new and render the new drive un-bootable. I think the easiest is to do disk to disk, and local disk to local disk, and then do the disk proportionally option. If you REALLY have to fix the partition, you need to extend it with some sort of partition application.... Or, just suck it up and make a new logical disk with the unallocated space in computer management.

@Tubeytime Жыл бұрын

@@melkert81 Thanks for answering this question, I raised an eyebrow when he insisted that we have to use "partition to partition" in the video. Disk to disk seems fine.

@thedarkflowkiller 10 ай бұрын

I tried copying my SSD C drive into a new NVME SSD. When it started doing its thing I got some red messages about "mismatched GPT and MBR partition" etc. But it's a new drive, healthy according to windows, with absolutely nothing on it. Can you help me out ?