EaseUS - many sites 'review' this 'free' software and recommend it.Once done, shut the PC down, remove the old hard disk, and turn the PC back on.įor future reference I tried several products claiming to be able to migrate from a HDD to SSD.Once you confirm what you are doing, confirm it again, and AGAIN, it was a fairly painless process what was way faster than the other products I tried.You then boot your pc using the USB stick and read every screen very carefully, because it's not a friendly GUI-based app like the rest.You then have to put it on a usb stick (I used a 2GB memory stick, it doesn't hve to be big) using Rufus ( ).You get Clonezilla from and then click on Stable-(numbers) and the on the next screen change the file type to iso and download the iso file.Out of all the products I tried (some I had to pay for) this was the only one that worked as advertised. To Migrate my OS from a Hard Disk to a SSD freely and quickly, I can only recommend Clonezilla.

Volume 1 C NTFS Partition 930 GB Healthy Boot Volume 0 System Rese NTFS Partition 579 MB Healthy System edit: details of my mechanical drive Microsoft DiskPart version 1.610 Is that a thing I can change, or does that just represent the current 'system'? I note that the disk doesn't say it's a boot disk. Volume 2 Partition 579 MB Healthy Offline Volume # Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info

Here's the drives in Macrium: They have the same partitions, same types, same sizes.ĭiskpart detail on the disk looks like this: DISKPART> list disk Didn't even need to re-set the boot order. Wait a bit at the flashing cursor where it normally loads the OS.

In bios, ensure boot order is set to the new SSD first.

Select 'Clone this disk' and walk through the steps to put the same partitions onto the SSD.

Boot to windows 10, run Macrium Reflect v (free edition).

Install the new SSD onto a spare sata port.

I'm trying to clone my 1TB spinning MBR disk to a 1TB ssd (also MBR).

Macrium reflect free ssd