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Cloning software ... HDD to SSD
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bdt
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Take a look at Macrium Reflect (free ed) ..I usually use Todo-Backup to clone drives (and it has an optimise for SSD mode) but the v4 edition is whiny, you would need 3.5.
Hey Hey
What SSD drive did you get... you can usually download free disk cloning software from the manufacturers of the drives...
You could also use EaseUS Disk Copy Home, free;
http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/home-edition/#Title2
bdt
Executive Member
^ EaseUs are the ones that ..err.. do Todo-Backup. And Deep78 - it's time you met alternativeTo
I got an OCZ vertex ... but haven't really checked OCZ site
about easeus ... it does a sector to sector copy ... will that work if
im going from HDD to SSD?
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kooldude
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You could use clonezilla if you are familiar with linux. But my suggestion would be not to clone it rather install everything from scratch.
I'm with kooldude on this.
I know that would be the best option but the amount of work that would go into that .... just not up to it.
Why a sector to sector copy ? With an SSD I thought you'd only want the used sectors copied... not the blank stuff too. Unnecessary write to your SSD prematurely ages the drive... hence the no-defrag, no-swapfile, no-full erase etc.
You could also go to your current non-SSD hard drive manufacturer's site and download their free HDD tools... Western Digital and Seagate have free disk tools that will clone / copy as well.
The fresh install for SSD seems to be always recommended. Any one here on MyBB done an SSD clone install and can offer advise for the OP?
bdt
Executive Member
There's a current v4 download that's free, but I find how it installs to be intrusive and annoying. So I use my older 3.5 when I need to ..you want a copy?
Everyone is jumping on about acronis ... think im going to look into that first
Acronis is not free... costs $50... if you are going to go the legal route...
but maybe the Free Trial will work, seeing as you only need it this one time.
was thinking the same just use a full trial and see where it takes me
http://www.ssdfreaks.com/content/664/how-to-clone-hdd-to-ssd-with-windows-7s-own-software
and all in win 7 dont need anything else :}
and all in win 7 dont need anything else :}
Yup... BUT I have encountered 2 failures with this method in the past (hard drive to hard drive not SSD) and that has been with the partition shrinking and then the restore to target.
I encounter issues with restoring to smaller sized hard drives and also sometimes when shrinking the partition.
I am not saying that it does not work... I have just experienced issues and now do the (safer) 3rd party route. I find that unless it is a like-for-like hard disk size restore, I use Acronis or a 3rd party clone rather...
Sigh ... i was thinking of that the sizing issues cause i have tried to make a drive smaller once but had
a really hard time doing it ... Acronis it is ... thanx for the advice guys!