I rarely post comments, but wanted to thank you for this. I repeatedly tried using a different free software that is widely recommended, but it would never let me boot from the migrated NVME drive because of an error message. Finally, I tried Disk Genius and it worked the first time! I especially liked that it took me to the BIOS screen after the migration, so that I could change the boot order. BTW, I used this software on a Windows 11 desktop. Thanks again.

me nervously reseting the bios to boot from the new nvme......success! THANKS! worked perfectly.

One of the best videos of mitigate OS and clone SSD on youtube

worked like a charm ! thanks !

This worked for me cloning a 500 GB HDD to a 960 GB SSD. Earlier I followed someone else’s video for DiskGenius and my SSD wouldn’t boot. But your method worked. 👍🏻

worked great! for anyone wondering how to know where your windows is originally installed when you have two identical SSD drives, this program also let's you see the serial number and then you know 100% which one is which.

Super helpful thank you very much

simple working THX

Thanks this worked! Windows 11.

thanks bro,i cloned my os smoothly

Good video, good program that is infact free!

Useful video. Tks

@WindowsTips101

11 ай бұрын

Thank you.

I tried several other videos that recommended other applications, this is the only free one. Very misleading application, it states that it is free during installation, but when running, you have to buy another plan, as the current one does not work. Your video saved me, thank you.

Oh man, thank you for this, you just saved my dev-station and wallet 😂 Now I just need to get to know how to store that backup image

Thanks.

@WindowsTips101

9 ай бұрын

No worries!

Nice video!

@WindowsTips101

11 ай бұрын

It's good you like it. Thank you.

@loracehooker3036

10 ай бұрын

Free version did not work

@WindowsTips101

10 ай бұрын

@@loracehooker3036 How it happens?

hi i just want to thank you for the video! for anyone wanting to clone a 1tb hdd to a smaller size m.2 ssd this is the only program that worked for me (i tried them all) luckily i had my hdd split into 3 partitions c,d,e and c was 340gb my destination drive was a 500gb ssd i followed the video exactly and then it said in red warning this disc is not a basic disk and the content on the destination might be deleted etc it's safe to click continue and all your data is safe my source hdd still has all my data on it i was unable to use other programs because they said the cluster sizes of the drives are different so i cannot proceed (they cannot convert the clusters while cloning) and this seems to be the only program that works no matter what !

@WindowsTips101

10 ай бұрын

It's good to hear that it works out for you. Thank you for sharing this.

A note, when initializing or converting a disk to GPT, the MSR is created as the first partition, which is usually 16MB. The basic primary data partition is the second. If you are going to install Windows on the disk, this program allows you to first create the 100MB EFI and then the MSR, and then create or modify the primary system partition. The Recovery partition is necessary, and you can do it with Diskpart if you cannot do it with DriverGenius. Likewise with Diskpart you can do it all, convert, delete MSR, create EFI, create MSR, create primary (C:), create WinRE, create a second primary partition for data (D:). If WinRE is after D: and runs out of space in an update, a new recovery partition will be created just after C:, leaving the previous WinRE unused. If you are going to leave WinRE as the last partition, it is better to give it 1.5Gb instead of 500. The channel is interesting, I hope for more videos. Greetings.

In the beginning you selected clone disk. Then in the pop-up it asked you to change to system migration. Which you selected. Why didn't you select system migration in the drop down menu from the beginning?

Hello. I followed your video to clone my ssd data on a ROG Ally, and afterwards when trying to boot from the new SSD it says ‘inaccessible boot device’ . Might you be able to assist me with this?

I tried several times to migrate os and for a strange reason I'm missing around 7GB on the cloned drive and when i tey to boot it says boot fail bla bla bla..

Thank you for this video. Is the original drive still bootable if you desire to boot windows from it? Or is it now deleted? Thank you.

@WindowsTips101

5 ай бұрын

It's still bootable.

HELP! I installed a Kingston NV2 M.2 on my MSI x99s Gaming 7 motherboard, then i swapped out my RAM from 4x Kingston fury to (16Gb) 2x Crucial Vengeance (32 Gb) , then i followed your video to clone from my Crucial BX100 250 gb ssd. Getting a lot of "Machine check exception" fails on my boot. What to do ?

I followed you step-by-step and I tried to transfer from my 120 GB to my 500gb nvme and when I got done everything was still on the original discs

@WindowsTips101

10 ай бұрын

Yes, it just copy everything from disk to disk. Everything on the old disk is still on the old disk (until you delete everything on it). The new disk is the exact copy of the old disk. What you need to do next is accessing the computer bios to change the boot priority in the bios to boot the computer up with the new disk.

I'm getting a sector size mismatch error.

I followed step by step but when in bios, the old drive is (UEFI hard disk: windows boot manager) but the SSD that we needed to migrate is only presented as (hard disc) and if I choose that it will not boot windows and I need to boot myself back to bios and change it back to the old ssd. What might be the problem

@WindowsTips101

10 ай бұрын

you may want to give it a test by using only one, the new ssd to see if it work?

Thank you I tried that stupid mini tool wizard shit and that would always end up crashing when i try to start the application this was very helpful.

WHY I CANT START IT ESP PARTITION SIZE I CANT PUT 100MB

useful vid...is this supported wins 11 pro?

@WindowsTips101

11 ай бұрын

Yes, it supports Wins 11 pro.

So "System Migration" is only for copying the system files and nothing else? At least, this is what I understood when I asked chatgpt about it. EDIT: Nvm, my bootable DiskGenius didn't do the autodetect for system migration. I have to select that independent of the disk clone option.

When I klick on the new NVMe ssd to comfirm that I want to copy my windows to that ssd from another ssd it says that everything that I have on the new disk will be overwritten, does that mean that all my games and inportant files will get deleted?

@WindowsTips101

4 ай бұрын

Everything on new SSD will be lost, so if you have games or data on it you should not proceed.

Hi. So I have a nvme m.2 ssd in my motherboard and i have only 1 slot... how can i change it for another nvme with larger space capacity without losing system and all my data ? What would you recommend to do?

@WindowsTips101

6 ай бұрын

You may need to migrate it to an intermediate device, for example an internal SSD. Swap the nvme and boot you computer with that SSD and migrate it again to the new nvme.

1 have only one slot for nvme and i want to transfer my system to a larger nvme drive. Can i use a sata ssd to transfer my system there and then transfer the system from sata to my new nvme?

@WindowsTips101

8 ай бұрын

It is possible. Remember to verify if everything works fine on SSD before transfer it again to new NVMe.

Hey WindowsTips101, thanks for the helpful video. Unfortunately, I've run into a snag. I have followed the video until 3:24, when I choose my new NVMe as the target disk. While my NVMe is new, I have been using it for gaming and it has about 1TB of data on it already. When I choose the NVMe as the target disk, I am prompted with a warning message that reads: "Warning: All files and partitions on target disk will be overwritten! Are you sure you want to migrate system to '[the new NVMe drive name]'?" I am worried that, if I select my new NVMe drive, as per the step at 3:24 of the video, and proceed past the above warning, I will lose all my game data on the NVMe drive! What should I do?

@WindowsTips101

5 ай бұрын

Don't proceed as you will lost all of your data on the nvme.

Just like any other free software, it is probably free until you try to do something, then they tell you need to purchase the full version.

@WindowsTips101

11 ай бұрын

Yeap. Users can choose to upgrade to the Standard or Professional editions for those specific tasks.

@anonnomus6070

11 ай бұрын

@@WindowsTips101 You are forced to upgrade because you can't do anything when you have the "FREE" version. I recently got a free 30 day trial of Amazon Prime, and guess what I can actually get free shipping, faster shipping, Prime Video, basically everything that the paid service offers. That software is not free, I bet you can't even try the actual functionality of it without paying. Free is a BS word to the software companies.

@loracehooker3036

10 ай бұрын

It did Partition my drive for free

At what point can we format the old OS drive?

@WindowsTips101

11 ай бұрын

It is when you need to reuse the old disk as the data disk in stead of throwing it away.

Usefull. Sucks that the low subscribed to page have the best info.

@WindowsTips101

5 ай бұрын

😭😭😭

@TOSStarTrek

5 ай бұрын

@@WindowsTips101 Just download anything of value now. AIs are redicting to crap info.

@TOSStarTrek

3 ай бұрын

True but the program works. I just started doing the opposite of what they say.

When clicking "Start" I'm getting a popup with red text: "The target disk is not a basic disk, and executing current function will destroy its related storage structure, resulting in data loss on the target disk and on all other related disks. Are you sure you want to continue?" Does this mean, that I will also lose data from all other disks in my system if I do this? Is it safe to proceed?

@oschwald9784

11 ай бұрын

Update: I did it, and it worked. Thank you for the video.

@WindowsTips101

11 ай бұрын

Do not proceed. Follow two steps. First, you need to backup your Windows and data to an external hard drive. This is to make sure if something wrong with the cloning, your data is intact. Second, investigate what kind of disk the target disk ? why the target disk is not a basic disk? Is it the dynamic disk? by getting the info from its property. We only use the basic disk in most of the cases.

@WindowsTips101

11 ай бұрын

Ok. Thanks for the update.

Do I need a completly emty NVMe ssd to transfer my windows to?

@WindowsTips101

4 ай бұрын

No. It is not necessary.

Cloning was successful, Legacy mode is enabled in the BIOS but the NVMe doesn't show as bootable in BIOS, despite showing the device itself. Now what?

@WindowsTips101

5 ай бұрын

Try legacy and uefi modes with only one nvme connected to the system.

@Falangist

2 ай бұрын

Double check what partition system the NVMe is using. Is it GPT? If so, that will only work under UEFI. If it's MBR, that works with Legacy/CSM BIOS.

Should I expand partition to full or just free space? I'm not knowledgeable in the matter pls answer

@WindowsTips101

5 ай бұрын

Try free space first to see if it works.

@vintz420

5 ай бұрын

@@WindowsTips101 i did, turns out it left the free space unallocated, so after I make a new volume everything works fine!

Is this safe ?

Does the cloned version of windows have the update ability or is it like windows to go

@WindowsTips101

10 ай бұрын

It has update ability.

Hello does it work i have nvme gen 3 with 3500mb/s and want the system how it is activated in my new nvme 4.0 7500mb/s or is not worthy doing migration?

@WindowsTips101

3 ай бұрын

First, you should check the manufacturer's documentation to ensure that your motherboard supports PCIe Gen 4. Many older motherboards do not support it. If it does, then it's worth considering an upgrade to NVMe Gen 4.

@meltinsr

3 ай бұрын

@WindowsTips101 thank you my motherboard have only gen 4 , and pcie 5.0 gpu slot but it come with and 1 tb samsung nvme 970 evo. I will try to migrate to the new one samsung nvme 990 pro.

Is it necessary to backup image file??

@WindowsTips101

5 ай бұрын

It's safe to backup it.

June 2024 : I will try to follow this tutorial and update this comment if it works.

@TheChocolatBlanc

18 күн бұрын

It worked perfectly. Thanks.

Why would you not let the programme auto change the boot order then just boot into the New drive... Saves farting about in the BIOS... Not a lot people are experienced using bios..... If auto did it for you why not choose that? Unless you know otherwise! Cheers

@WindowsTips101

11 ай бұрын

You got a good point. Thank you. I just added additional instruction in the video description to show people how to access bios manually. 😁

@Falangist

2 ай бұрын

It's good to enter the BIOS manually because there might be changes to the disk partition management system when cloning to the new destination boot disk. Going from MBR to GPT, or vice versa. In such cases, rebooting and going to BIOS manually can be beneficial to change from Legacy/CSM BIOS to UEFI, in order for the boot drive to be usable.

can do it with clonezilla this is how I did it..

@WindowsTips101

11 ай бұрын

Yeap, clonezilla can do, but the interface is not user friendly. Isn't it?