- #Macrium reflect clone ssd to external hd install#
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- #Macrium reflect clone ssd to external hd windows#
And, you will potentially be copying that Registry information about the new HDD to your new HDD which will want to assign that new drive letter to it instead of the drive letter *C:*, which is what you really want.
#Macrium reflect clone ssd to external hd windows#
(By the way, is this a new HDD that has never been installed on your system before now? Or, has it been used for other purposes previously?) As soon as you *initialize* your future destination HDD, Windows is going to brand that HDD with an identification number, probably assign a drive letter to it, record that information in the Windows Registry, and will try very hard to not let go of that information. You will risk having all sorts of potential problems if you allow Windows to work on the future destination drive prior to your cloning. The Windows Repair Disc with the *Repair Boot* menu item can be essential to overcoming that problem. The most common reported problem after attempting to clone one’s OS to a new HDD is failure of the new HDD to boot. You could spend a week looking around the Macrium Rescue Media–you will have time to do that after you test the Windows Repair Disc.
You will want to make sure you can find the *Repair Boot* option on the Windows Repair Disc. Win7 will only create the Repair Disc to a burnable CD or DVD–will not allow to be created to a USB thumb drive.Īfter shutting down–test both the Rescue Media and the Repair Disc to be sure you can successfully boot to each.
Before you shut down the computer–do you have a Windows Repair Disc? If not, you really need to create that, as well. Just to be sure, I’m assuming the *Recover USB* is in reference to the Macrium Reflect *Rescue Media*. PS: I’m OK with moving the New HDD to the old Disk 0 position to ensure the (C:) drive is recognized, but Macrium info seems to imply that is not necessary for the system to properly boot from the new drive? Is this possible that it changes something on the drive? Or will they be lost due to the New HDD swap process? No need for boot changes in the BIOS.Īnd the second drive will automatically re-acquire its original partition letters (K:) (L:) (M) sizes etc. Start system which should boot from the New HDD with the same partitions, sizes, drive letters, and contents as the old Disk 0. Reinstall the second hard drive back into its original bay. When process complete, shut down system, remove old Disk 0 and remove New HDD and move it to the old Disk 0 drive bay. Question: Clone using Intelligent Sector Copy? Or Sector by Sector Copy? Run the Clone process Entire Disk 0 to New HDD. I assume I cannot Clone from within the Windows enviroment (Correct?) so Boot system with Recover USB to get into Windows PE.
Question: Does the New HDD need anything done to it via Windows such as initializing, formating, partitioning before it can be recognized and go through the Cloning process?
#Macrium reflect clone ssd to external hd install#
I propose to temporarily uninstall this HDD and install the new HDD target into this bay. I have a second hard drive installed for storage.
#Macrium reflect clone ssd to external hd free#
Need confirmation of my understanding of the process and answers to some questions.įirst install Macrium Reflect Free onto the current Disk 0 and also make a Recover USB, then shut down the computer. The current Disk 0 (MBR – NTFS) shows 4 Partitions: (No letter) 500MB, OS(C:), Recovery(F:), Data(E:) – a Logical Drive Normal single boot set up, standard BIOS.
#Macrium reflect clone ssd to external hd pro#
Maingear desktop computer, Windows 7 Pro 圆4. I am looking to replace my main (C:) hard drive and mirror image Clone its contents to a new hard drive of the same size (both are 1TB).
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