Hi! You can always use Easeus Todo Backup to create an image of the disk, remove the old disk, put the new one in, boot from the Easeus usb (there is a dedicated prompt for creating one in Easeus) and restore the image to the new disk. In this way you a) have a backup image and b) a new clone simultaneously! If for any reason the system fails to reboot into the new disk, use the Windows installation usb to repair boot record. This happened to me once. Many thanks as always for your informative videos!!!!
@rsb3609 Says:
Just came back to this video (after the diskpart video) cloning my drive right now! Thanks for these very helpful videos, my 3rd time back!
@tonyc2227 Says:
can we use clonezilla to clone a proxmox host?
@artiebrewt3170 Says:
I didn't know how to do this so I used Puppy Linux which runs in RAM with no drives mounted and used the Gparted program to copy and paste one partition at a time from the old drive to the new drive. It eventually worked but only after remembering to set the partition flags and labels on the new drive.
@peppi0304 Says:
Btw, there is also Rescuezilla. its is basically clonezilla but with a GUI. it also has gparted installed
@LuteFrontier Says:
Godfather of Linux Mint
@dogzero1 Says:
This is the best instructional video and most useful I have ever seen. Thank you.
@dksmithuk Says:
My dell xps 8910 at startup dell support assist said the hard drive was failing status 3e error 151.
I think it has bad sectors.takes 20 min to start.
It recommends replacement.
I used DiskGenius to migrate to a new drive.
After replacing the drive I have the same problem.
Have I migrated the problem.
Thanks
Dave
@MarkG0MGX Says:
Fantastic - thank you 🙂
@steverx4460 Says:
the Samsung Data Migration (SDM) tool generally does not work for non-Samsung destination drives
@burgermeister7244 Says:
Chris, I realize this video is two years old, but I wonder if you'd consider redoing it showing tools that specifically Linux users (not Windows users) can use to clone a system drive to a larger drive? You have been getting a lot of attention from Linux viewers in the past few years, and I know people would appreciate it. :-) I've got a great Linux Mint tower I built myself that I use as my daily driver, and the little 240GB SSD has nearly run out of space. I'd love to keep the system exactly as it is, but move it to a larger SSD.
@tonyc2227 Says:
So which software to use to clone Mac osx ?
@flowermaze___ Says:
In theory can these be used to clone the OEM recovery partition onto external media like a USB drive?
When it comes to old and rare computers, keeping the recovery partition copied is like gold!
@wally6193 Says:
When you say you returned the SSD to factory state, you said you used diskpart, but couldn't you use DG to do that by just deleting all of the partitions, which basically erases all partitions and then proceed to system migration?
@dzik_kolonizator Says:
No incremental updates in any free software though?
@igorschmidlapp6987 Says:
"dd" did NOT stand for "data duplicator" when created with UNIX.
"dd" meant "copy and convert", but "cc" was already taken by the C compiler, so, they just used the next letter.
Yes, I'm an old UNIX admin (Linus hadn't even created Linux yet). I use that trick question to mess with newbie admins... ;-P
@erickvond6825 Says:
Very useful. Thank you. I knew about Clonezilla but the other two are new to me.
@sxyqt3.14 Says:
Thank you so much. not only have you helped me backup my video games but you helped me in so many other ways, educating me. My life has improved 10x since watching your channel. Keep going! I even tried linux mint cuz of you! (was a bit sluggish for my tastes) but i did it!
@Danno-j7q Says:
Love clonezilla ... but if your coming from windows or just want a GUI RescueZilla is a great choice ... use gparted and go from a larger to smaller drive
@olivesouch6423 Says:
11:41 Or if the USB Drive has multiple ISOs with Ventoy, then it's fine, simply put Clonezilla into that USB Drive.
@electronstudios1411 Says:
thanks so much for this video! helped me to create a clone of windows for me to boot off of when i switched to linux! ❤
@thelydiaspringexperiment6437 Says:
dd is all i ever needed. it does it all and its free
@asrarhassan Says:
Macrium V.8.0 still works amazing. It also has Macrium boot disk which flawlessly works with Ventoy.
@pjhandle Says:
DiskGenius has limitations in the free vetsion. E.g. I have a dual boot pc and wanted to use it to make full backup of the Linux OS as it can also read EXT4. However this requires a Pro license, so can't be done with the free version.
@dlpeters0n Says:
I've installed many Samsung SSDs, and their Data Migration utility was a real crap-shoot, absolutely maddening. I had to resort to other apps several times.
@kphelps2012 Says:
Good morning Chris,
Once again your videos helped me out of a jam. I was having trouble cloning my Windows drive and I remembered your video on the topic. After watching, I downloaded Disc Genius and it worked like a charm. Thank you.
On a side note, I believe that desktop computers, the bigger ones are going to make a comeback, even if for a short while due to AI. Laptops and the mini PCs are not powerful enough to handle it, especially if you download ComfyUi.
Once again, Thank you.
@flat-earther Says:
rufus is an alternative to balena etcher
@ultralagger1 Says:
uhhhh why is the only option for clonezilla's CPU architecture just AMD64 and not x86?
@ultralagger1 Says:
How to clone my SSD from one laptop to another laptop with different specifications?
@pvsolutions9292 Says:
Also DiskGenius is not working in my Windows 11, says "Clone partition error, Sector size mismatched". I have a storage space. Please remove your video.
@pvsolutions9292 Says:
Remove this video, there is no Samsung Data Migration existing anymore. And Samsung Magician does not see my windows-raid diskpair
@smert_rashistskiy_pederacii Says:
9:25, 5500 MB/s is a pretty impressive speed. I usually use AOMEI, but sometimes I use this software. However, I can't do cloning or backup NVMe->NVMe, so NVMe->HDD is only 70–100 MB/s. Even within one NVMe, it's only 140–400 MB/s.
@kaleidscope927 Says:
Perrfecctly explained .
@paintedjaguar Says:
Very useful, thanks. Although I was hoping that using these programs for output to an ISO file would be mentioned.
@stephenjones8928 Says:
Thank you Mr. Barnatt.
@fabianmckenna8197 Says:
Bought a 2TB Crucial SSD plus USB cable to clone my W10 1TB HDD using the supplied Acronis.
Locked my computer up as the timer spun happily without actually doing anything.
Gave up after three attempts and downloaded Macrium Reflect which allowed me to run cloning software for thirty days free trial after I signed up.
Three and a half hours to clone 1 TB HDD and worked perfectly.
@Treeburnify Says:
Hasleo Backup Suite will clone an OS drive and allow partitions to be resized
@rsb3609 Says:
I agree,it's quite special, watching clonezilla doing it's thing. Very rewarding!
@NicolasChapadosGirard Says:
Aomi does not work for free anymore
@nevco8774 Says:
Macrium Reflect was free untill the end of 2023. As such any free version found online to be installed before that date is eligible for free update to that point even today in summer of 2025. Macrium Reflect can create a rescue booting device writing it into a usb flash drive or any usb enclosed old HDD or on tiny microSD used with an usb reader.
That utility just works not only in cloning but also in imaging the Windows somewhere in a file or split in multiple files of required size, for instance split in portions for burning on CD-DVD-blue ray. The restoration of image can be done on any SSD, HDD, SD, flash drive.
Moreover the same tool can force Windows to be bootable on different computer by performing fixing restoration of booting ability on a new machine.
Besides, the file browser included in Macrium Restore usb tool allows to browse any image or partition, copy, delete files, remove old installations of windows from bootable partition, remove stubborn unremovable files in Windows in case those are written by a virus. It removes even files unremovable by utilities based on Linux. It can do the same on any existing partition of a machine booted from usb into that utility.
@RobBattram Says:
clonezilla does a complete clone - including the disk uniqueid
- the old drive would need to have its uniqueid changed using diskpart if it is to be used in the computer with the new cloned drive
@daveadams3383 Says:
Thank you for all your help cloining a drive so easy to follow
@JemCruz Says:
Just want to say thanks for this video. I moved from a relatively slow nvme to a faster and bigger one. I picked clonezilla and followed the video. Works perfectly and no issue.
@rccosplay3249 Says:
I tried Samsung Magician as it works for this sort of stuff... Was cloning my ssd to the Samsung 990 Pro nvme, it did not work?? Some magician, the only magic it worked was getting me frustrated! I used Disk Genius, I done a hot migration and did not touch the PC until it finished about 45 minutes later, It migrated about 1.5TB of data from a 2TB ssd to my new 990 Pro 4TB and it scaled it to use the whole 4TB, though it says 3.64TB total. I'd recommend not to reformat and store the old drive for a few weeks to make sure the new one works and no glitches👍
@wally6193 Says:
another question about using Diskgenius. If the original HD is an MBR format, can I get it cloned to be in GPT format?
@Malibyte56 Says:
Does Disk Genius work if you have any non-Windows partitions on the boot drive (i.e. a dual-boot Linux/Windows system)? I have been using dd under Linux to clone drives up to this point.
@springbay1 Says:
Thank you Christopher for making my computer life so much easier to navigate
@Robotrik1 Says:
There's one thing I never understood about cloning drives that have the OS on them :
If used for migration from PC-1 to PC-2 , and the two PC's have different motherboards, CPU's, GPU's , with different drivers etc, , should the clone of your C: drive even boot on a different motherboard & CPU setup ?
Also, another random question : would any of the software described above be able to clone a C: driver from a Windows 98 laptop (my first computer 😊) ?
@dimapanin9056 Says:
you saved me so much time, thanks
@geowilson1587 Says:
perfect timing i just dump windows to linux before the oct scam date….thanks alot great vlog again
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