Thank you - I am getting ready to do this and this video was very helpful. Happy computer living to you !!!!
@franklekwan5860 Says:
It noticed that the clone is always between 2 disks of the same interface. The disks here used in the video, both the source and the target is SATA (well weather it is SSD or HDD doesn't matter). Can we make a clone between disks of different interfaces? For examples, if the source disk is SATA but I want to use an NVMe as the target. Can it be done? (I mean can Windows still be booted ?)
@justdoingitjim7095 Says:
So, the short version is there is no free software that will clone your harddrive/ssd. If it's not an exact copy, it's not a clone!
@mylifestartsat8k Says:
I've been looking for those answers for a while now, thank you so much. Disk Genius seems to be perfect for me I just used it. Cheers!
@mnogoli Says:
Спасибо! Реально работающая бесплатная программа "DiskGenius", а не только "free download", как могло показаться при скачивании.
@dicklaurent6548 Says:
I like this guy's style.
@vittorioabr Says:
Thx, Chris, all good options. But - although I know it's not the same - I wonder why no one talks about *disk mirroring* as another option of cloning or upgrading a disk. ie say, you have a HDD, then connect a new SSD, perform Windows disk mirroring, then disconnect the old HDD. Would that work? - with minor drawbacks understood.
@willb5658 Says:
Thanks for your insight! I feel more at ease for my future upgrade after watching your videos.
@rakshithnadig5864 Says:
I cloned my HDD using DiskGenius based on your instructions. It was really helpful as most of other software out there are not free for cloning purpose. I too recommend DiskGenius based on personal experience.
@chrisdiehl8452 Says:
You forgot GParted.
@Maitreya3001 Says:
Thank you for the video!
I chose DiskGenius and it worked brilliantly. Thank you for the recommendation.
@willshaw72 Says:
It's probably too late to get a reply, I tried Samsung data migration, didn't work, Which would be the best next one to try?
@tombanes Says:
I had an old copy of minitool shadowmaker 3.1 free from 2019 to clone an entire drive that still is free and works. Don’t update if asked.
@anonytuser711 Says:
Great recommendations! I use Clonezilla for Linux and Disk Genius for Windows. Both are free.
@1centimetre Says:
The old version of Macrium Reflect save me heaps of time when I was transferring my OS and Data to a larger nvme SSD. It automatically handled the BitLocker encryption and the partitioning.
Get the exe installer while it lasts!
@Pizzpott Says:
This is an UPDATE to my previous post: I'm afraid that although it completed the migration, two things were different.
One: A Windows dialogue came up telling me thaf the drive would need to be formatted before it could be used. (I of course ignored it).
Two: When I swapped it for the existing SSD in the PC it failed to boot. Instead I got a message telling me that 'this is not a bootable drive, please insert a bootable floppy and try again'.
So I reconnected my original drive and restarted the machine - same message. This message came once when I had to change my CMOS battery - so I had to go into the BIOS to reset the boot order so that my EVO would be number one. After that I was loathe to try the DiskGenius migrated disk again.
@Pizzpott Says:
Brilliant video. It's going to be Disk Genius for me - I have Acronis installed, it's brilliant for resorting a drive if there are issues or if some software causes problems, but to be honest it's a bit of a pain if restoring an existing image to a different size drive - this cloning is exactly what I've been looking for to upgrade my OS SSD to a larger one.
@Iamlookingforwoody.....786 Says:
I personally use Clonezilla software.
@haridhanani9326 Says:
thanks ExplainingComputers! Great tut, and DiskGenius is the besttt. Ya'll made upgrading my disk drive very easy
@GORtubei Says:
Thanks Mate, life saver
@hectorsilva2835 Says:
thankyou for teach us about this software, but can I clone a ps4 hard drive with this programs
@PixieBelle93 Says:
Thank you for the video! Tried with DiskGenius, and everything went smoothly.
@gonzalo2481 Says:
My favorite free cloning software is Acronis True image for Western digital. You just need a WD drive installed in your system for the license to work, but you're free to clone any drives😅 It works even if the WD drive is external!
@ManasBharat Says:
Please make a video on LTO!
@jaderington Says:
So when you clone the system drive C does it automatically make the new drive a bootable drive C: ?
My best guess it that obviously yes of course it does , it has to.
I cant afford for this to go wrong or i'm done for as i'm not very lucky with computers.
I want to do an external clone then open up my MSI laptop, install the new clone, turn on my laptop and never look back......
@giotakovousi750 Says:
Thank you so much!
@user-kw6wl6kv5v Says:
YIKES. At the exact same moment you checked if your Disc Genius had worked I plugged in a drive to see if it would be a suitable target drive. The screen went blank and I saw the words "booting from disc" and I had heart failure wondering what the hell I had started 😱and then your soothing voice came over the airwaves and I realised what had happened. 😌
@brianh.000 Says:
About to go try this now! Wish me luck. 🤞
@abbyleyva2211 Says:
thank you. any issues cloning from emmc to nvme drive?
@ShookD Says:
Never mind, I'm going to use disk genius. but TY big time! Love you videos!
@ShookD Says:
I can't find the Samsung software any where?? HELP!
@RobinBull1968 Says:
After a couple of days of trying to get Disk Genius to work, with several different error upon booting from the new SSD, in the end Clonezilla did the trick - almost. I found that using the -k1 option to create the partition table proportionally, while the new size of my C drive was showing the correct capacity in Disk Management, in Windows Explorer it was still showing as the old size - a partition table error it seems.
The solution was to use the -k0 option to use the partition table from the source disk, thereby leaving me with unallocated space, and then reallocate that space to my C partition using MiniTool Partition Wizard Free.
I just now need to resolve why the system is taking some time to boot, with flickering cursors for a few seconds at startup, but I expect that's just my boot order, where the BIOS is looking for a bootable partition.
Thanks very much for all your really helpful videos.
@johnoleary1483 Says:
Chris You are clear You are Accurate You give great tips (Use CD Drive cables for new SSD) You are without doubt the best presenter for computers on Youtube Thanks to you I have replaced my 12 year old hard drive for a brand new 1TB SSD I now boot up in 1 min 30 not 5 min 30 Applications open almost instantly I now have a "brand new" computer Thank you so much
@ChrisSTARS2407 Says:
Macrium Reflect Free is no longer available? A pity. Anyway, now I use HDDSuperClone with Linux Xubuntu distributive
@joetheman74 Says:
Simplest and easiest way is to boot up a live Linux USB if your not on Linux already. Then use dd. One easy command.
dd if=/dev/drive-to-be-cloned of=/dev/drive-to-clone-to
Then just let it do it's thing. There are many paramaters to customize the job for your situation but this simple command will clone the old smaller drive to a new larger drive. Typically what most are trying to accomplish. If you need to clone to a smaller drive or need other settings just RTFM.
@vla2uv Says:
I don't think you have a solution for cloning a particular internal storage unit - whatever that is - to necessarily an ISO file so that that image can be restored to a new future internal storage unit of whatever later brand and size! Why is that ? Simply because I want to clone a particular storage saving it for later restoring without having a physical target and to use it later on for any storage unit I want at that particular moment. Otherwise ANY BACKUP image is useless if the current storage crashes beyond repair and you do have just a backup copy BUT that can not be restored to ANY subsequent storage unit of your liking. Remember: a backup copy is not the same thing with cloning! A clone can be done only if you have a target unit to clone to and can't be saved as an ISO file whereas a backup can be saved for later usage but can only be used to the same storage unit! So, until then a backup is no silver bullet whatever program you'd use if if can't be planted on any SSD, of any name and any brand!
@DirectorChanel Says:
Acronis True Image Home (2009) ?
@flxsemi653 Says:
8:44 is it necessary to adjust the partition size as shown here?What happens if you don't and kept the free 456.8 GB as is? Would that size be unusable?
@fiddleblue Says:
Thank you so much for your work and this video. Followed thoroughly and everything works well.
@jimwjohnq.public Says:
Scrolled down below Samsung magician and there was no link to clone drive software just Magician software.
@johnly9308 Says:
I appreciate the video; it provides very clear instructions. I use the Disk Genius program, and everything went smoothly up until I received an error message stating that "failure to create snap shot patrition." What need I do to resolve this?
@didiervallet Says:
Thanks a lot, with DiskGenius, i've quickly prepared a new ssd for my laptop
@techluvin7691 Says:
I have tried all of these………but the absolute best hands down is “disk genius”. Disk Genius allows OS migration to a new SSD so that’s a clone. I will not use any Samsung products in any of my builds. They don’t stand behind their products.
@Myself-yh9rr Says:
DD can be a wonderful thing but use it cautiously!!
@RodCorkin Says:
Upgrading system dive using DiskGenius was simplicity itself thanks to this video
@AlistairBrugsch Says:
Arcronis has a free product for crucial customers. Can be downloaded from the crucial website but only needs any crucial storage product connected to the PC to be fully functional. It doesn't even need to be used in the clone process, just be seen by the software
@FinepixF30 Says:
Awesome video, I used DiskGenius today to upgrade my system to a bigger SSD without having to install everything again.
@PContreras-se4rp Says:
Last time I had to clone some hard drives, IDEs to SATAs and from 3.5 to 2.5; AOMEI Backupper seemed to work well, although something funky was that even if I disabled it in the startup list, it would still run an AOMEI process in the background 24/7. Probably nothing, but I'm looking for alternatives, so let's see here.
@davidwayne9982 Says:
I like using Balena Etcher.... fast simple and works every time!!
@willgaines6157 Says:
Does the target drive have to be empty / reformatted? Using 2 Samsung M2, 128Gb internal to a 1Tb in a caddy. The target has Windows 10 data on it. The Samsung Magician recognizes both in the App, but it refuses to recognize the target when data migration is selected. Thanks
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