The program I used is called "Macrium Reflect". You can download the software from their website here: www.macrium.com/reflectfree My NVME SSD: amzn.to/3qr1Ewh

really apperciate showing the mistakes you have made, while most ppl on YT just showing the way that how it works like magic, those mistakes and corrections is very valuable, thank you.

@GrantButler

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you appreciate it. I'm definitely not perfect. And definitely not an "IT" guy haha

@bccabernet

2 жыл бұрын

I quite agree! It is helpful to see what you did 'wrong' and how you fixed it... so we can do it right and watch out to not make the same mistake you did. My first thought was to do what you did the first time around. lol. And yes, I came to your video because so many videos suggest Aomei... only to find the paywall. :(

@elshaddai237

2 жыл бұрын

The only tutorial i need. Thanks my dude 😎

@Michael-xd9sb

2 жыл бұрын

I was about to comment the same thing. If I didn’t watch this I absolutely would have done as he did, always great to learn from your mistakes and pass that knowledge on to the next

@tjhallum

2 жыл бұрын

💯%!!!

Thank you Grant, I followed your instructions using Macrium Reflect v8.0. Made sure the C:/ was last, the only difference is that you do not have to add the extra space manually, v8 have a button that ask you if you want to add the extra space. Honestly, I could not have completed the job successfully without your instructions. Again, thank you very much and greetings from Europe.

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, and hello all the way in Europe! What country are you in; its awesome to see people in the comments from around the world.

@vadisquo9094

2 жыл бұрын

@@GrantButler Thank you, Berlin, Germany (West).

Bro, I have been wanting to do this for soooo many years, and I followed exactly what you did (at 15 minutes, of course). It works perfectly! There were no problems whatsoever, Macrium Reflect worked in 19 minutes from a 125 GB SSD to a 1 TB SSD using a hard drive docking station. Can't thank you enough for figuring out the problems and showing the right way to do it!

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

So happy you were able to find the video and that it helped you!

First time changing an SSD here, this was a huge help. Thanks for making it, and doubly thanks for leaving in the failed attempt since that was just as important for showing what not to do as well.

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. I'm glad you found it helpful.

Your mistake was a blessing for me. I ran into the same issue. I went from 128 SSD to 1 TB. I was wondering why I didn’t get my full additional space. I appreciate you doing this. I just subscribed to your channel.

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the sub! I'm glad the video was helpful

for those who find this video now with Macrium Reflect 8 Free released, they changed one part in the cloning progress which is at around 16:37 in this video. Instead of the text saying "Cloned Partition Properties" you select the tool Symbol above your view of the drive you want to copy to from the old one namen "Layout". You then have the exact same steps as in this video. :)

@GrantButler

6 ай бұрын

Awesome! THANK YOU for sharing!

Thank you for this! I’m kinda new to custom PCs and only really using mine as my workstation for creative apps Adobe, 3DS max etc. This worked soo well, done in 30 minutes max. SO MUCH SPACE!

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

So glad it helped you

Thank you Grant for this Video! I fell into the same trap with unallocated space. This totally saved me from a hot mess!

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

So glad it helped

The newest version can expand it automatically. When copying the partitions just select "Shrink or extend to fill the target disk".

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

That's so awesome!

@thatDavidMota

Жыл бұрын

Just did it this weekend, it did not expand it lol ☹️

Clomed 2 sata drives onto bigger sata drives and ran into this issue. 500->2tb but space wasn't available. The fix you provided was perfect. Appreciate you!!

@GrantButler

26 күн бұрын

from what I've heard the new software is easier, there's a "Fill" button or something that automatically expands it, and there's no issues with the sections being out of order

Great video mate, well done! Fine attention to detail and left nothing to question at all - helped a lot with my clone from gen2 to gen4. Legend!

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

Glad I could help

Great video, macrium works great, the newer version is a little bit different but your steps and explanation made it easy to clone my original 1tb drive to a new wd black 2tb.

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

Oh, I'm glad it's working. Most people have been saying it doesn't work anymore

@finalinstrument4980

11 ай бұрын

Didn’t work for me, there’s a different menu now.

Yeah, I tried doing this by myself and noticed it didnt take up the rest of the space on the ssd as well, glad to find out that the solution was simple. Thank you

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

Glad you found a solution!

A bit late to the party but as others said thanks for showing the uh oh part. This is the video I was looking for, now I have 95% confidence to up grade my windows drive

@GrantButler

4 ай бұрын

So glad I could help

thank you very much for showing how to clone to bigger ssd, Macrium didn't design this too well and kind of confused us, thanks again you the man!!!

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad the video is still helpful

Man, thanks a lot! I just had the same mistake as you and after 2 hours of searching I found your video and it saved me ❤

@GrantButler

7 ай бұрын

I'm glad you found the video. There's one thing I didn't mention that I did wrong in this video and it's that the partitions need to be reorganized to be back in the original order once you resize them

I did exactly the same as you twice before I realised how to fill the rest of the drive. Thanks for sharing the solution

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad I was able to help

You have earned my heartfelt thanks as well as a new subscriber. I just upgraded my Dell Inspiron 15 7577 from 128G to 500G based on this video with absolutely no problems. Thanks so much for taking the time to help us less technologically inclined viewers.

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I'm glad the video helped

thank you mate. i almost went for the wrong program you mentioned, but thankfully i found your video and followed the instructions. now my pc works perfectly

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

So glad my video helped

This is exactly what I was looking for when installing a larger drive.. There is however a way to keep the partitions in sequence. Drag them down as you did initially then click on the last partition and select float right. Finally resize the main partition as you did (click on it and select fill space)

@GrantButler

9 ай бұрын

You're right, it's been quite a while since I made this video. And I've learned a lot since then. This is probably not the best tutorial anymore

Ha. Love that you show the mistakes behind the curtain. That's almost every upgrade I do! Good to point out decision points that can go bad if just blindly following the "Next" button. Thanks!

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

That's why I made this video haha

@gdurkee

Жыл бұрын

@@GrantButler Ha! I did it and it went smoothly! Or, at least, so far so good. Haven't yet wiped the old drive (internal SSD) just to be sure. A rare event when things with computers go smoothly -- you make the mistakes so we don't have to... . Thanks again!

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

@@gdurkee I did the same thing, I held on to my old drive for probably 2 months just to be sure before I wiped it.

Beautiful, I got frustrated trying to clone using a system image restore and found your video. You've done a great job on this video. Good content+good directions. Thanks for the good time and tutorial.

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

Thanks I'm glad it helped!

so on the new software version 8 or whatever you must right click on the C drive and go to adjust partition size or layout and then select maximum size as the "cloned partition properties" button does not exist anymore on the new version. got confused and almost made the same mistake you did but saved time by doing what you showed next in the video and making sure it cloned properly. good video!

I tried that upgraded my 2 SSD from 1 TB to 2 TB. It is so simple and flawless.

@GrantButler

7 ай бұрын

I'm glad you got it done

OMG thank YOU thank YOU thank YOU! You saved my hide because I spent hours downloading and trying different software including the one you mentioned and everyone of them was involved in misleading/false advertising by saying " FREE software " only to find out it was not free by any stretch of the imagination. Btw I'm very glad you showed us your mistakes had you not we more than likely would have made the same mistake.

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

I feel like if I make the mistake, I can't be the only one. Glad it was helpful

Thank you so much. I've been through this process 5 TIMES NOW, following instructions from various videos and couldn't figure out why my new windows install drive was split into 4 different partitions. 3 of which had their own letters... I appreciate you, man!

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

So glad I could help

You sir have earned a subscriber! I've just got myself a Samsung 980 1tb for £50 and it will be replacing my Kingston 120gb SSD, I was going to use the AOMEI or whatever it is called software but seeing this and seeing that you've found one that's free is awesome! So thank you buddy! :D Saved so much time and effort trying to find a cloning software!

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm glad I was able to help

@Physics072

2 жыл бұрын

AOMEI should not even be mentioned, terrible company nothing compared to Macrium Reflect not even in the same class.

@J4mie4991

2 жыл бұрын

@@Physics072 Yup I agree, AOMEI is absolutely horrible.

You are an absolute lifesaver. I was so worried about the rest of my.... wait for it.... *10GB* of free storage being lost. I've subscribed to you, legend.

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

Glad I could help. 10 gig is huge. Have fun filling that up!

@Exilir8

Жыл бұрын

@@GrantButler 10GB is miniscule, my friend

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

@@Exilir8 haha I misread that at TB not GB

Thanks for the video... worked like a charm! I had initially used another KZread video to clone my drive and had the extra parition and needed this video to correct the mistake. So thanks again!

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you got it working for you!

Thank you so much for your help on this. I definitely screwed up a couple times, but after slowly going back through your video I was able to do it correctly even with the newer version of the software.

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

glad to hear it!

Great video, like other comments wondered why I lost most of my new SSD, your Video helped fix that. Many Thanks

Best soft soft tutorial for beginners on KZread! I'm an absolute beginner and all the other tutorials I've found on KZread have been so

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I hope it works for you. I've heard that there's been updates, so it may not be the same anymore

Thanks for the help on this. I had the same issue as I've never cloned to a bigger drive before. The software was slightly different since this is an older video but I just had a button I could click to fill instead of going into the options. Cheers!

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

Glad it all worked for you!

Thank you so much for explaining everything. I've been making the same mistake that you originally made. Really looking forward to getting home and trying this out. Subscribed

@GrantButler

11 ай бұрын

Thank you!

I first tried cloning my smaller SSD to a new larger SSD using Paragon Hard Disk Manager 17 Advanced. The process wasn't complicated...however, it took 3.5 hrs...after which the cloned drive WOULD NOT BOOT! Womp, womp 😟. Afterward, I put the old drive back in my system, did more research, and found this video. I followed the process outlined from the 15:13 mark onward using Macrium Reflect Free...and after a relatively short ~45 minute process, the drive was cloned, and Bob's your uncle - it booted right up PERFECTLY 😎! Well done Grant 👌!!! This is the first of your videos that I've encountered...but I'd dreaded this task for some time...and your excellent tutorial made the task quite straightforward. Thank you 🙏! I will definitely be checking out the rest of your channel 👍!

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the kind words, I'm glad my video was so helpful. I hope you enjoy the rest of my videos too.

@tjhallum

2 жыл бұрын

@@GrantButler, I'm checking out "Windows 11, and should you Upgrade Conversation" right now 😁!

tyvm! they recently changed the software to have a "fill clone" button or something along those lines but this was helpful regardless! thanks so much

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad it helped!

I also did the first mistakee and it took me here :D Thanks for the video it helped alot!!

@GrantButler

Күн бұрын

@@carbendi awesome! I'm glad I could help!

Made this same mistake with the partition size, thanks for showing the workings out - made fixing it much easier! :)

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

Glad you found my video!

Very helpful, especially since you showed the mistake with partitioning and how to fix it. Terrific!

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

Glad you found it!

This video was a god send! Keep up the good work my friend!

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Thanks so much! I did the same thing you did at first. Now I have the fix without having to go through all the trouble. ❤

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

Glad I could help

OMG! You helped alot! The process was easy to follow and I did it with no stress at all! Thank you so much!!

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

So glad this video helped

I messed up same way first time! I thought I fried the ssd and returned it yesterday! The new one will be here tonight and I will be using this video as my instruction! Thanks man!

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

The struggle is real sometimes. I'm glad you found this video helpful

Excellent video! Thank you. The most important info for me was concerning how to properly allocate all of the space available on the new, larger drive. Btw, I think it's pronounced MACK-REE-UM. Haha. A great program.

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful

Thank you! this saved me after hours of searching yours was the only one i was willing to risk trying because you had the mistakes you made really made me confident i could do this

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

That's exactly how you should feel! You got this! Good luck! I'll be here if you have issues. Hopefully everything works perfectly!

thank you a lot .. i loved how innocent was the video made and how was that near to beginners being doing all the steps with you, thanks once again .. and a big sub & like for you champ keep up the good work

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

i just did the same clone, i went from a samsung 980 pro 500gb - to a 500gb WD-Black SN850 ....transfer only took me about 6 min lol went smoothly! thanks for a great video!

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it went smoothly

Dude, you ROCK. I was on my way to a fourth failure when I came across this video. Everything is great thanks to you!!!

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

So glad the video helped 👍

You could’ve also used Gparted to move the partition back out of the way so that you can extend the volume.

@GrantButler

5 ай бұрын

Oh nice! I've heard thr new version made it so this isn't an issue anymore

Thank you. You saved my life Samsung data migration wouldn't work and nothing worked until I tried your tutorial thank you.

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped

Personally I would just back up my own data with a regular back up program and then do a fresh Windows install on the new SSD, once Win installed then put back the backed up user data. Yes it takes a bit longer but it always works

@GrantButler

11 ай бұрын

That's a fantastic decision!

i was searching and asking everyone for this, i am so happy for ur help.thank u very much

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

Glad I can help

thanks bro love yah from philippines your the one man ineed so much love im so problematic on how to do this because i asked shops here in philippines and this price so much expensive good thing i saw ur vid so i just bought my nvme ssd then did what u did on the vid. my computer now works like 10x faster. im now a new subscriber with nottif bell keep this up man mwa

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you found the video helpful! Thanks for subscribing!

Got an Error 9 related to Backup process... Tried a couple ways and it was a showstopper. Had to go to the SSD manufacturer and use their cloning software. UPDATE: I had to run CHKDSK /R to repair the source disk at boot. No issue after that.

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you were able to figure it out! Good job man!

I just did this and what is koo about that ssd it comes with the software to help u do the migration and also its called Samsung magician. Also learned that u can get into the disk management and you are able to change the disk drive settings to have that ssd drive be the boot up.

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I didn't look into that much. I've heard that those free migration tools that come with it doesn't work on the actual os. But I haven't looked into it very much either.

For a moment I thought you are going to say is alive is alive😂😂

@GrantButler

6 ай бұрын

Awe man! Missed opportunity!

Very helpful thank you...that Max space available setting was huge

This video was extremely helpful and informative! Thank you so much!

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad it was helpful

umm, no, you've actually cloned it correctly the first time - cloning is making a 1:1 copy, yo! 😅 the last attempt was copying individual partitions and extending the last one 🤷 EDIT: Still, Thanks for the vid, otherwise I wouldn't find that gem of software that can do all that! 👍😁

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

Right, but most people watching this video want the same end result that I show. The exact wording doesn't de-value what's being done. Sometimes, you purposely use the wrong words because the people who don't know how don't know the terminology. I'm just trying to make it accessible. Hopefully you understand.

saved me money, i was gonna buy a "premium" cloning program, thanks

@GrantButler

6 ай бұрын

A paid one may have been easier, and this video is so old that the software may not be the same as the one as I show in this video. However, I'm glad that you found this video

I'm doing this a little differently and I'm using a 3rd hard drive as a medium so I can switch out from one M2 SSD to another. Thanks for breaking this down for me, and good job since this is a first try man!

@GrantButler

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

this video was EXACTLY what i needed. like to a tee. tried to clone with the other software and fo mnbvunf out ot wasnt free. then tried to clone with marcuim the wrong way. this solved all my problems

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

So glad it was helpful

That is exactly what happened to me! Now I will try the same steps to correct it. I will let you know how it performs. Now to follow your steps.

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

Fingers crossed for you 🤞

@everettumphrey

2 жыл бұрын

@@GrantButler Guess What. did the same and it worked! I was sweating as two partitions were almost full the windows and the NTSF I think that was what it was. But placing the windows as last a selected fill option I have 693 GB free! Thanks.

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

@@everettumphrey so glad it worked for you too

Thanks for the help. I'm about to install some pretty sizable architectural modelling software, and had no room on my ssd.

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

Nice!

Thank you so much!! Transferred from an Adata 128gb to the Samsung 1tb SSD and it only took about 15 minutes total

@GrantButler

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Glad I could help.

you know the guy is a techy when you see a baofeng laying around...

@GrantButler

10 ай бұрын

🤣 I actually found it randomly out in the desert when I was hiking

i found this video because i made exactly the same mistake as you and was looking for solutions, thanks for the help

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

So glad you were able to find it! Thanks for watching!

Thank you, that's the exact same issue I was having. Love Macrium!!!

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped

How can I do this exact process (256gb orginal ssd to 1tb) if the orginal ssd is setup as a dynamic disk? When I do this I cannot adjust the size of the partitions resulting in wasted space.

@GrantButler

Ай бұрын

@prixinc1 can you give me the time code when I tell you to setup as a dynamic disk in this video?

thank you. if i have problems with cloning and running programs, could i basically just keep my old c, and when i need to use a program which is installed with windows OS on my H drive - simply press f12 to make it boot from H instead of C? i know its weird, but its a huge program that needs to run along with the OS...

Welp, the Reflect 7 Free has retired, rendering it undownloadable, what is the next best thing to use?

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

Good question. I'll have to look into it

At last SOMEONE explains why my cloning operation was failing! I had to search KZread for the newest posting on cloning, and Grant's video came up as the winner. At 15:15, he perfectly explains the issue I was having, namely that after cloning, I had this small partition between the C: partition and the newly-available space, and could not extend the new C: partition. Nope, could not do it. The key point that I missed is that when using the Macrium cloning software, after you have selected your drive to clone, then right-click on your new destination drive to remove each partition, one-by-one. Once you have "cleared the deck" on the destination drive this way, ONLY THEN can you drag and drop the source partitions to the destination drive to re-arrange the order of the partitions!!!! No one else said a damned thing about it in the other vids! So yes, do what Grant says, after which in Disk Management you can extend your new drive's available space via Disk Management's right-click "extend volume" command. Poof! It works! Jeez. It's simple once you see it, but no one else pointed it out. Thanks, Grant. You were as exasperated as I was!!!!

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

So glad my video was able to help. What were you searching before you found my video?

@demef758

2 жыл бұрын

@@GrantButler My generic search was "clone one SSD to another SSD," but most of the videos are 1-4 years old, featuring old versions of Windows and Macrium. The software they demonstrated did not look anything like it looks today. Hence, I selected yours because it was only 4 months old. Not a one of them mentioned how to change the stackup of the partitions, as you encountered. Even the SW you show is not how the Macrium SW looks today. BTW: my cloning operation, while appearing successful, does not work if the PC's SSD is soldered to the board, such as the "MeLE Quieter3Q fanless PC." You cannot remove this on-board SSD after the cloning. It must remain. So I got in and fiddled with the BIOS, changing the boot order to put the NVMe at the top of the order. When I do that, the PC won't boot, stuck in an endless Restart cycle. I'm 100% sure I had successfully cloned the on-board SSD and made the correct BIOS settings, but this particular PC won't let you boot from anything except the on-board SSD, period! I cannot find any video anywhere of anyone trying to make this swap on the Quieter3Q. Go buy one (they're cheap) and try it. I'd love to see someone who claims to know his stuff do it on this little PC.

Grant - you’re changing the partition order on the target drive. Is that necessary in order to enlarge the drive c: partition? Does changing the partition order affect anything regarding computer functionality or recovery later that you know of? Thanks-

@GrantButler

2 ай бұрын

I didn't know at the time, but I'd you can keep the partitions in the same order it will prevent a lot of issues

Well I don't know if anyone else has experienced this. A year has passed since the last comment on here. Can't see a free version of Macriam 7, there's now only a "free30 day trial" version of Macrium 8. This wouldn't be any trouble to me as I only need to use it once at the moment except downloading downloads their own installer which THEN tries to download the free version and throws an error. Checking the error log tells me that it thinks I don't have enough space. I have pointed it at the E drive. The E drive has 1.4 TB of space free... May try making a tiny bit of extra space on C just in case it's trying to install a small amount on there as well as E (I had that happen with other software before).

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

Huge bummer since they forced the software update. Sorry bro. Hope you get it worked out.

Actually the first time I see a YT video mess up like me 😂 non the less you fixed it and helped me with my same issue. Sub for sure

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I'm glad this video was able to help you!

Thank you for the video, big up !

@GrantButler

10 ай бұрын

I'm glad it helped!

Thank you for this need that, minor update. I had a 500gb M.2 and upgraded to a 2TB M.2 so I swapped the new 2TB drive to slot 1, the old 500GB to slot 3 because my slot 2 has anther 2TB m.2. I did what you did, but i did not remove the drive I simply went into my BIOS and set the 2TB new drive as first boot saved it and rebooted. Windows booted no problem and the 2TB new boot drive showed as Drive c: and the old 500GB shows ad Drive E:, backed up drive E and formatted the 500GB all great. So no need to swap them out to test just set the boot drive in the BIOS Again thank you for this amazing help

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you found it helpful

Hey, question, so this is going to be my first time doing this. You first "Cloned Windows to a New Bigger SSD" using the "Macrium Reflect" program, then you permanently removed the original 256 GB SSD card, and then replaced it with the "1 TB Samsung 980 Pro M.2 NVME SSD". It that the correct order? Could you first replace the SSD card and then run the "Macrium Reflect" program? I was just wondering if the order mattered?

@GrantButler

6 ай бұрын

Once you've cloned everything to the new drive the only important thing that you "have to do" is make sure it boots from the drive you want (the new drive).

You’re a lifesaver. Thanks❤

@GrantButler

11 ай бұрын

I'm glad the video helped!

damn, must be nice. i tried this today and it kept giving me errors not letting me complete the cloning process. turns out my less than 1 yr old nvme boot drive is somehow botched. guess ill have to do a fresh install of windows on the new one and painfully copy everything i can over the slow way.

How do you not have more subs?! This content is amazing!

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

Haha thanks, I was thinking the same thing 😅

Thanks, really healped me out. By the way, its the best freeware I've seen for drive management.

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

It's the only free one I've found

I did the same thing with Macrium and started pulling my hair out. You wouldn't know I've done this 100x in the past and still messed it up and needed a refresher.

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you found it helpful, and you could come back to it. I've done the same thing

That was slick, neatly cutting out the part where they require your detailed personal information before letting you download the “free” software. Sorry, but sharing sensitive personal info counts as a cost. Dishonest as hell to clip that part out and pretend you’re doing it all in real time.

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

What?

You should really leave the partitions in the same order they were before.. Besides, you really didn't need to do that to resize the C drive in the first place. With Macrium you could have just left them in the correct order and once you got to the c drive, hit "layout" and there you could drag the little slider over to resize it (or type it in manually). Then just make sure you leave enough room for the last partition, and you'd be good- same partition order and a larger c drive. Or after making an exact copy like you did the first time, you could have just resized it afterwards using the "extend volume" option in disk management. Though, I personally prefer to have the drive resized from the get-go. It just feels better to start out with it that way imo.

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

I could not figure it out after 10+ tries. I had to move the partitions in proper order move all the free space to the left and fill

@GrantButler

11 ай бұрын

Good move

What SSD enclosure would you recommend, pref USB A as my other PCs are older (that is capable with M.2 and NVME)?

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

I'd recommend this one. It's a good price, comes with both USB C & A cables, and has more than 1,000 positive reviews. amzn.to/3hHKJpk

For some reason the first time when I made the mistake of not putting the c drive last and it didn’t use the full storage available, my ssd booted up fine, but when I cloned the correct with, with the c drive last, it didn’t get past the boot screen.

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

Right, you can't do the C drive last. It has to go in the same order. As it was.

@bynahelemaal

Жыл бұрын

@@GrantButler but then the rest of the unallocated storage stays grey and cant be used.

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

@bynahelemaal yeah things went great for about a month after I made this video but I ended up just doing a clean re-install of windows on the new HDD just backed everything up then moved it over after

I need some help,I made same mistake even after watching the correct way . Now it won't unmount

@GrantButler

8 ай бұрын

I'm sorry, this tutorial is out of date now. I'm told that the software has changed, and my not work in the end anymore

worked perfectly, great video!

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it worked for you too

Thanks for this, had similar scenario but both SSD internal, did whole thing in 21mins 😄

@paulruffy8389

Жыл бұрын

Update..it won't boot the clone😥

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

@@paulruffy8389 oh no. It's been a few years, I've heard there's been updates to the program

Thanks bro I literally did the same thing and didn't know how to fix it thanks so much!

thank you sir for your hard work amazaing content succeeded from the first try. :)

@GrantButler

6 ай бұрын

So happy it helped! Thanks for the kind words!

thanks was searching for software to be able to clone bootable drive… thanks for the demo bro nice video

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

Glad you appreciated it! Thank you for watching!

@xiaoheng86

Жыл бұрын

@@GrantButler hi however i’m unable to boot up using the new ssd it keep showing the black screen with the spinning icon and cant boot to desktop

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

@@xiaoheng86 that's not what we want. Are you still able to boot from the other drive?

@xiaoheng86

Жыл бұрын

@@GrantButler i can boot from the original ssd but not the clone disk weird… stil trying around and troubleshoot so far no help :(

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

@@xiaoheng86 did you try swapping the drives out entirely? Maybe your PC is trying to boot from the rong port?

Thank you! Jays video is getting all the attention but doesn't work! Grateful you put out a working update.

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

Happy to help

Great Video Grant... Lets make sure we pull out the ac power cable from the tower before opening the case.... very important. if you don't.... may fry the motherboard by accident. 🙂

@GrantButler

2 жыл бұрын

You're probably right, but I like to live my life on the edge

I was really happy to see this video, but alas, the company do not appear to offer the free version anymore. Only a trial. The cost for a license is more than I paid for the SSD.

@GrantButler

9 ай бұрын

It's been years since I made this video, I'm suprised people are still watching it. Reading the other comments might be helpful

@connomar55

8 ай бұрын

Thanks Grant. I found a way using Powershell and the Easeus Backup program I already have. The issue I had was the recovery partition sitting at the end of the original SSD. A sector by sector copy put it in the middle of the 1TB SSD. Powershell let me delete it.

It seams to not work with 2TB drives, at least for me. I get Incompatible Disk Selected error because of the byte/sector of the target disk is 4096 instead of 512.

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure what that means

@fibranijevidra

Жыл бұрын

@@GrantButler For most disks, each sector stores a fixed amount of user-accessible data, traditionally 512 bytes for hard disk drives (HDDs) and 2048 bytes for CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs. Newer HDDs use 4096-byte (4 KiB) sectors, which are known as the Advanced Format (AF).

Quick question would i be able to use this method on a legion 7i 2022 laptop?

@GrantButler

Жыл бұрын

Obviously the physical installation process would be different, but everything else would be the same