Cloning my Hard Drive Maybe

[leon]

Hi Guys, I have AOMIE Backupper on my Desk Top and intend to clone my hard drive, so is it best to clone to a new SSD internally or a SSS external drive.

I have two unused drives as reserve in the desktop one 1TB SSD and the other a Crucial P2 500GB NVMe M.2 drive.

So what is the best way to go and will this cloning procedure copy exactly what i am presently using.

Thanks in advance.

Leon

[sharkbite]

Depends on what you mean by 'best'....

1TB for more size, M2 might be slightly faster...

I cloned my sons old lappie he had in school - it needed a bigger drive and the licence was managed by the school so rebuilding it was not an option and i was too stingy to pay for a new OS.

I did end up with more speed and more GB - but the cloning process itself was a bit rocky...

at risk of spouting what you may already know -

cloning is (more or less) a byte for byte copy of your existing drive, including any quirks or foibles....like a buggered registry.

If your old drive is the same size as your new drive - happy days - but if its not - you will need to re-size your main partition to get full use of the new drive.

In my case - the recovery partition on the old drive was corrupt, and the new drive wouldn't boot until i got rid of it....so if my main partition dies, that lappie will end up on gumtree.

my strong advice - if you have all your original install software - backup your user data, and rebuild from scratch.

for something like w7 - this is better anyway - and you will always have your old drive as a "backup"

best of luck!

[leon]

if you have all your original install software - backup your user data, and rebuild from scratch.

Thanks for your response, I do actually have all the original install stuff and all photos and all documents are on an external drive, safe and sound.

As you mentioned it might be the way to go for someone not very Computer savvy, just ask Andrew RB

Thanks.

Leon

[RB (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by leon

As you mentioned it might be the way to go for someone not very Computer savvy, just ask Andrew RB

Thanks.

Leon

I'm on to you Leon....
If you know how to change font colours in your responses, you're actually very clever.
I wouldn't be surprised if you were actually an Apple mole, sent here to destroy Microsoft.

[leon]

Bugger, you spotted the frame up.

Leon

[RB (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by leon

Bugger, you spotted the frame up.

Leon

[Leo.G (Leo)]

I have a couple of cloning stations for standard 2.5 and 3.5" hard drives but they probably wouldn't work with SSD's I'm guessing.
One cheap Aldi thing which was OK for the money and a much dearer higher quality brand but they were never great with more failures than I'd like over the years. I wouldn't even know where they are now.

[leon]

Thanks Leo, but I think I will just give it a miss and if the Computer dies I will just install the stuff i need and add all the documents later.

Leon

[bojan]

Recently I bought this gadget from ebay.. it works.

However, when cloning my HDDs, I connected SSDs in the next free slot.

[leon]

I do have one of those actually I have two of them.

Leon

[RB (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by leon

I do have one of those actually I have two of them.

Leon

You've taken the definition of Cloning to the next level Leon.

[leon]

Gee your a funny fellow. Hmmmm.

Leon