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    Cloning boot drive to new SSD

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Dheorl, Jun 21, 2019.

  1. Dheorl

    Dheorl Notebook Consultant

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    So I've just received my new Gigabyte Aero and bought a 250GB SSD that I intended to use as the boot drive, enabling me to have the entire 1TB drive it came with for media.

    So I've opened it up, installed the new drive, have it all set up and formatted and accessible. Now I basically just want to copy everything as is it onto the new drive and format the old one, and I really don't know the best way to go about doing this.

    This is how the drives look at the moment. I tried using EaseUS to clone the drive, but when I tried it turned all the recovery partitions into lettered drives and windows wouldn't boot properly from it. Is there a step I'm missing, or a different (ideally free) program that would be better to use.

    Many thanks

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    Dheorl, Jun 21, 2019
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  2. Spartan@HIDevolution

    Spartan@HIDevolution Company Representative

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    You wanna use Macrium Reflect to do this. Clone the drives then set the boot drive to be the SSD. After you've verified you are able to boot off the SSD, format the current HDD and use it for media.
     
    Spartan@HIDevolution, Jun 21, 2019
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  3. StormJumper

    StormJumper Notebook Virtuoso

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    You have to if using UEFI change which is the boot drive otherwise it will not work correctly. So if the 256 isn't selected it will not boot from it. What you should really do is use the recovery image and create and boot USB or Disc and use that to restore the factory image onto the 256 drive and then change the UEFI to see the 256 and that should technically reboot the right drive. As anything since this is factory image one the drive you should if they sell it get the recovery USB drive or Disc and use that to redo the image back onto the 256 drive and then swap the UEFI config to see the 256 as boot and that should work.
     
    StormJumper, Jun 23, 2019
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