Anyone familiar with cloning software

[Speedster]

Macrium Reflect (free) has always worked for me

 

[OutlawJoseyWales]

I have a 4Tb and it is not enough. I guess it depends on what you're using it for though.

More disk space is a btter thing generally.

Apparently for SSDs you must leave 10-20% of the drive free for it to function at it's optimal level.

 

[Dimpie (JIGSAW)]

+1 for Acronis, but the last 2 clones I did was with Hasleo Clone Disk free version ... NO issues

 

[Claymore]

I have done plenty of disk clones to SSD, and most have been with Macrium Reflect Free. Sometimes I've had to use Partition Wizard to shrink partitions first and move around afterwards. Experience with other cloning software has been spotty at best (usually unable to boot).

 

[Rickster]

Been using AOMEI Backupper for 5 years now, Disk clone from HDD to SSD works 100% without being on the Pro version.

Ive been using version 5 Standard, just make sure you initialise the new disk 1st in windows.

Never had luck with clone zilla, it has always said the two disks arnt the same size and told it to resize the partition but it fails.

 

[konfab]

Guide here with Macrium reflect. You need to make sure that the partition order is correct


https://mybroadband.co.za/forum/threads/guide-porting-windows-10-from-one-drive-to-another.1103341/

 

[PatchTuesday]

Macrium is very easy to use

 

[OutlawJoseyWales]

Can I just open Disk Management in Windows and right-click and delete the partition PQSERVICE (E) (see image below) without things going awry?
Will the 15GB of HDD space be automatically be allocated back to C drive or will I have to do something in addition.

Just don't want to shutdown and restart to a blue screen.

For little queries like these should we not start a thread/sticky called something like "The random Software/Hardware queries thread"?

 

[Ernabr]

I hear you, but bigger is always better

Bigger definitely bigger is not always better.
PS. I'm a woman working in IT...