How to Clone a Hard Drive or SSD in Windows (Keep All Files & Apps)

MOST common use of this is to CLONE the BOOT Drive . Ok . Most common use of THAT process is to UPGRADE , ARCHIVE or REPLACE the Boot drive . WHY do the folks making these vids NOT show the most LIKELY scenario - making ONE larger volume on the target drive from a smaller SOURCE drive ? Its always "you can do that later" or we'll do something SIMPLER here today instead ?

what if I clone ssd install to an ssd of the same size? is there a problem? (moving my boot drive to an ssd with DRAM cache)

If my laptops have space for my Old hard drive or SSD how different is the process??

cloning from hdd 1TB to nvme 240gb, i have to follow same steps ??

Great tutorial man! Worked perfectly for me...except my failing hard drive would only boot up when it felt like it, so I got stuck when I had to restart to get the wizard going lol. I reseated the SATA connections, and it booted up right and the wizard started like it was supposed to!

Not a free program.

No more music, please.

I was able to clone my drive but I have a strange issue where it turned 2 drives into 4. I only have the new SSD and a SATA drive in my laptop. How do I fix this?

upgrading my 120gb SSD with my windows installed on it to a 256gb SSD soon, gonna use this video thank you

It made my pc unusuable, thanks 🎉❤

When I clicked restart it didn't clone the disk but I just used another computer and worked like a charm. I mainly need the software I couldn't find one that would clone for free. It used to be easy but when everyone started upgrading to ssds the software companies saw a way to make money and started charging for that feature.

Please how can I download the application for cloning please

I love what you are teaching.. Keep it up

Thank you! Very easy indeed!

YOU ARE THE MAN!!
Great video.

my copy partition process shows an ntfs error code message when it reaches 26%
pls help me out

Do you keep your files on the other disk that has broke while u transfer your stuff to the another disk

Can i select which to clone or not, because i have SSD 256GB and my hard drive reach into 671GB used.

Great info it helped me alot.

Does this process specifically work for only ssd hard drive or hdd also

Please will all my data on my old hard drive be lost?

It worked for me thank you! But I have a system file now that can't be accessed. Its labelled as drive e: What is it and what should I do about it. Thanks in advance

Is it normal before even cloning for the ssd to get hot as it's connected to the m2 usb adapter and connected to the computer ?

Similar problem like user-tn6wo1th8l : Trying to clone a 500GB HD to 1To SSD : MiniTool refuses to proceed "Size of target and source disk differ. As you suggested previously I created NFTS sectors exactely like the source disk. Of corse the non-allocated space still show up. But the problem persists, MiniTool won't clone the disk - still complaining about different size of disk (the non-allocated space won't disappeare)
Any hints ?

windows 10 get deactivated. how to resolve? does windows 10 detect ssd serial number changes and how to rectify it?

My computer is reading both versions as Malware....

I can’t thank you enough for this tutorial. Paid for and tried to use Acronis but it was just an awful software. I appreciate you!

Does it affectt the performance on the new ssd? Great video btw! helped me a lot

I have installed Win7 and Win10 on the SAME SSD. How could I do then? Would the Minitool operation damage the original SSD or cause some unstable consequences?? Thanks!

Do you speak ENGLISH?

😒Minitool Partition Wizard Free (pw11.5).exeFailed - Virus detected

Can I upgrade from a 1TB HDD to a 1TB SSD? My Dell 14z N411z says 0 hard drive when I run the diagnostics and Belarc Advisor states I have A 1TB HDD. I'm attempting to make my laptop work instead of buying a new one. Right now it doesn't boot right and is super slow. Thank you for your help.

But if you migrate the old disk to another SSD that is really new. Will you need to initialize or "format" the target disk before the process of cloning or not...?

What does the d drive do ?

Hard to understand, speaks to fast and words are not clear. Sorry dont mean to hate but maybe Im getting to old.

Why didn't partition starts? When I restart it not finishing the counting to start the partition its always boot my ssd that im cloning, plss help me!!!

This is great and straight to point. However please I need assistance. I used this method exactly and changed HDD of two laptops to SSD. All running fine, but none of them opens any external hard disc. I have tried 3 of my external hard disc in each of them and none opened. These same external hard discs open in other computers. Pls any solution from anyone who may have encountered such? Thanks

Has anyone tried this lately? Because I don't get the clone icon I see on the video. Instead I get a webpage selling me paid versions of the software.

FAIL I did this with my WD blue 1 TB and cloned to a Crucial 1TB SSD everything worked but when I tried to reset my PC it couldnt find the recovery environment.

SO ITS A FAIL FROM ME!

The process of cloning is like copying and pasting or cutting and pasting ??

Yeah, not easy when you are blind and cant' read any dialog box that uses a white background with black text on it.
I need a Dark themed program like Ghost that booted off a floppy.

Nope, everyone is using Windows 7 out here.

Thank you very much, you saved me time and money with this video. I have subscribed.

it is saying disc configuration is changed even though the target disk is larger than my old disk

Thanks for guide. I did it yesterday even though it took me over 10hrs, it worked like magic... Thanks again

GENIUS

I have problem i think i do it wrong. I havd 500gb sata but i only got 232gb i dont where is the other half. Local D cannot be access.

Do i need to clone again?

Thank you for the guide. I tried doing this for my hard drive that's about to fail and has some bad sectors. During cloning, on the windows OS drive partition, it stated "failed to read disk. Error 23" from 80% to 100% . The Ubuntu partition cloning was fine, the bios can detect it and it boots but the windows partition/boot order isn't showing up in BIOS. How should I proceed? 🤧. The SSD is Samsung 870 Evo. 😭

Hi
I have couple of very important questions.
1. Will this process clone all the softwares and applications e.g, business software like POS and Microsoft SQL? Will it not affect their workability?
2. Also will this process erase the original (source) disk? If not, will it continue to work like before?
Awaiting your response to start my migration process.
Thanks in advance.
Victor Loukham