![]() ![]() Posts with "Help" or non-descriptive titles. Posts with an empty body, only a link in the body, title copied into the body, and/or lack of information in the body Submissions consisting of the following are considered incomplete and will be removed: Please read our new rules page for more in-depth rules. ![]() Please do not submit the same issue more than once within 24 hours. Do everything you can to reduce the effort of the wonderful folks offering to help you.Īfter solving your problem, please mark it as solved by clicking 'flair' and confirming the 'solved' tag. State everything you have tried and all the guides/tutorials/sites you have followed as well as why they were unsuccessful. Try to research your issue before posting, don't be vague. The subreddit is only for support with tech issues. Please include your system specs, such as Windows/Linux/Mac version/build, model numbers, troubleshooting steps, symptoms, etc. Live Chat ~Enter Discord~ Submission Guidelines This will probably require the commandline diskpart function, and the clean command.Check out our Knowledge Base, all guides are compiled by our Trusted Techs. Later, reconnect the old drive and wipe all partitions on it. Maybe reboot a time or two, just to make sure. It should boot from the new drive, just like the old drive. ![]() Swap the SATA cables around so that the new drive is connected to the same SATA port as the old drive (swapping cables is irrelevant with NVMe drives, but DO disconnect the old drive for this next part) This is to allow the system to try to boot from ONLY the SSD You can manipulate the size of the partitions on the target (larger)driveĬlick on "Cloned Partition Properties", and you can specify the resulting partition size, to even include the whole thingĭisconnect ALL drives except for the new SSD. If you are going from a smaller drive to a larger, by default, the target partition size will be the same as the Source. Select ALL the partitions on the existing C drive Run the Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration) Verify the system boots with ONLY the current "C drive" connected. If you are cloning from a SATA drive to PCIe/NVMe, you may need to install the relevant driver for this new NVMe/PCIe drive.ĭisconnect ALL drives except the current C and the new SSD Verify the actual used space on the current drive is significantly below the size of the new SSDīoth drives must be the same partitioning scheme, either MBR or GPTĭownload and install Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration, if a Samsung target SSD) Specific steps for a successful clone operation: If you were experienced, it might take an hour or more, depending on how much is on the drive and how fast your CPU is. You navigate to your image file and direct Macrium to restore that image file to the new drive.ģ when you make the image, be sure to include ALL partitions on the old drive. The USB drive leads you to the Macrium interface, just like if it was on a hard drive. You boot from it since you don't have a system drive. All you need is a USB flash drive of at least 1 GB capacity. How do you boot when you have just removed the old drive? You do that by using "Macrium rescue media".which you make within Macrium by menus. mrimg extension.Ģ after you make the image, you remove the old drive and install the new one and then boot the PC to restore the image. That other drive could be internal or external, but it CAN'T be your system drive (C). I'm sure there a lot of tutorials around.Youtube and elsewhere.ġ How much space is NOW occupied on the old drive? You'll need about 2/3 of that amount to store the image file.on SOME OTHER DRIVE. ![]()
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