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  • Best free option to clone W10 between SSDs?

    From David@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 5 16:55:38 2025
    Now I seem (touch wood) to have cured the intermittent halting, next stage
    is to move the OS from a SATA SSD to an NVME M.2 drive.

    I used to be well versed in this, but I am now well out of date.

    Is there something that can clone within the Windows environment, or
    should I bee looking at booting up Linux and using Clonezilla or similar?

    The plan would be to disconnect the other HDDs, clone the SSD, disconnect
    the SSD, reboot and hope it all comes up OK.

    Then reconnect the HDDs.

    All part of the upgrade and reshuffle of the tower case to make space for
    my newer video card.

    Cheers



    Dave R



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  • From Jaimie Vandenbergh@21:1/5 to David on Thu Jun 5 21:06:59 2025
    On 5 Jun 2025 at 17:55:38 BST, "David" <wibble@btinternet.com> wrote:

    Now I seem (touch wood) to have cured the intermittent halting, next stage
    is to move the OS from a SATA SSD to an NVME M.2 drive.

    I used to be well versed in this, but I am now well out of date.

    Is there something that can clone within the Windows environment, or
    should I bee looking at booting up Linux and using Clonezilla or similar?

    That'll still work.

    The bigger name-brand SSD vendors (wd, samsung etc) generally have a free-with-hardware-purchase cloner for this sort of thing too.

    Cheers - Jaimie
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  • From s|b@21:1/5 to David on Thu Jun 5 22:34:43 2025
    On 5 Jun 2025 16:55:38 GMT, David wrote:

    Is there something that can clone within the Windows environment, or
    should I bee looking at booting up Linux and using Clonezilla or similar?

    With Macrium Reflect you can either clone or image (I prefer image; the
    program also allows you to mount and browse the image). Version 8.0.7783
    was the last free version and is still usable. You can image your C:
    drive and save the image to another drive/partition while Windows is
    running.

    To restore the image you'll need to create Rescue Media under Macrium
    Reflect. Either a bootable DVD or USB drive.

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  • From wasbit@21:1/5 to David on Fri Jun 6 10:00:07 2025
    On 05/06/2025 17:55, David wrote:
    Now I seem (touch wood) to have cured the intermittent halting, next stage
    is to move the OS from a SATA SSD to an NVME M.2 drive.

    I used to be well versed in this, but I am now well out of date.

    Is there something that can clone within the Windows environment, or
    should I bee looking at booting up Linux and using Clonezilla or similar?

    The plan would be to disconnect the other HDDs, clone the SSD, disconnect
    the SSD, reboot and hope it all comes up OK.

    Then reconnect the HDDs.

    All part of the upgrade and reshuffle of the tower case to make space for
    my newer video card.


    Dunno about best but I have used all these, except Macrium, to clone drives.

    Clonezilla - http://clonezilla.org
    Disk Genius Free - https://www.diskgenius.com/download.php
    Hasleo Disk Clone - https://www.easyuefi.com/disk-clone/disk-clone-home.html Macrium Reflect - https://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Back-Up-and-Recovery/Macrium-Reflect-Free-Edition.shtml



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