Ive got Windows 8.1 installed on a 60gb SSD and wish to transfer the whole drive onto my new 128gb SSD.
Having never attempted this before can anyone give me any advice as to what program I need to use / how to do it please?
thanks.
Ive got Windows 8.1 installed on a 60gb SSD and wish to transfer the whole drive onto my new 128gb SSD.
Having never attempted this before can anyone give me any advice as to what program I need to use / how to do it please?
thanks.
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http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx
Free, very easy to use, very advanced if you need the features, supports GPT if you're using it, and handles SSD transfers flawlessly. It even does alignment without having to set anything up previously.
No point in a tutorial - install and read the menus. It's very easy.
Thanks Agent thats a great helpFrom your experience, how long does it take to do a drive of this size? A couple of hours or is it more of a 'set it off and go to bed' job?
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An SSD to SSD?
Assuming they are both on a modern SATA channel directly attached to the motherboard, a few minutes in most cases.
The read / write speed of a modern SSD is phenomenal. And when you factor in that 64/128GB aren't really that big....it's get a coffee level amounts of time![]()
slinger (05-12-2013)
Yeah SSD to SSD, both on SATA III. Great news then, I was worried it might be a massively drawn out task
Thanks again! :-)
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Does ReflectFree handle cloning to a smaller destination drive, or is it an "at least as big" solution? My penchant for sticking much bigger drives than I need in things tends to be my downfall when cloning![]()
scaryjim (05-12-2013)
Managed to ghos the drive last night but have a slight problem I hoped you guys might be able to help me with?
Ive cloned my 60gig drive onto my new 120gig drive but it seems to have created 3 x partitions, 1 @ 100meg, 1 @ 54gig (these are both the same as the 60gig drive) and then another with the remaining space. It isn't a problem as such but I would prefer to have just the one partition, any idea if it may be possible to achieve this? And if so, how?
thanks for your help.
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I think Windows' built in partitioning tools should let you delete the "spare" partition then resize the system partition to fill the rest of the space.
The 100MB partition is a Windows system reserved partition - I'm not sure what it does but AFAIK it's present on every Windows install and it should be left alone!
scaryjim (06-12-2013)
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