[How to] Clone HDD to SSD for free | Larger HDD to Smaller SSD | Windows 10 | DiskGenius (2022)

Hi, in this video I will show you How to Clone Larger HDD to Smaller SSD for FREE with DiskGenius in Windows 10
We will see How to Clone HDD to a Smaller with DiskGenius in Windows 10.
For this video, I will use windows 10 and DiskGenius tool and a new SSD Disk, and a SATA USB adapter to connect the new SSD disk.
DiskGenius, it's an all-in-one tool for managing partitions along with data recovery and backup, restore functions, Check and repair disk.
DiskGenius provides a Clone Partition to Copy all data from one disk or partition to another without interrupting any running programs.
DiskGenius assures you a copy 100% identical to the original drive with full protection of your data against any potential risks.


00:00 Introduction
00:31 Download and install DiskGenius
01:48 Clone Steps
05:57 Assemble and Test


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1- Download DiskGenius.
2- Install DiskGenius.
3- Go to the website.
4- Click on Free download.
5- click ok executable file to launch the install.
Disclaimer: it's very very important because you can easily make a mistake to choose the source disk and the target disk,
especially when the 2 disks are of the same brand and the same size.
6- Connect the SSD Disk with the adapter.
7- Must be shown on DiskGenius tool.
8- Go to tools and clone the disk.
9- select the source disk.
10- click on NO when the message do you want migrate system right now does appears.
11- select the target disk.
12- make sure the boot partition have the same size, then right click and click keep size.
13- resize all other partitions with the size you like.
If to make a hot migration
14- click on "Hot migration".
(Else click " Reboot to dos" for more security and fully protect your data against any potential risks.)
15- click OK
16- Assemble and Test the disk.

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[TechINtn]

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Have a nice day, and thanks for watching 🔝

[TatianaPWBios]

Thank you so much, I spent hours with other softwares and nothing was working until this one.

[OfficialSonOfRock]

After 16 hours of frustration I found this video. Worked beautifully! Thank you! Liked and subscribed.

[mtds]

People are not exaggerating when they say you have saved them...thank you so much

[olegyamleq]

After 4 hours of frustration I found this video. Worked beautifully! Thank you! Liked and subscribed.

[Binary_Deviant]

Ok I notice this clear as day. The title of the video says " Larger HDD to Smaller SSD ". Problem is in this video you are cloning 161.1GB to 512GB SSD. I was unable to clone 1TB to 500GB hard drive. The program does not let me choose 500GB hard drive as the Target disk.

[DerekWilson-up]

this just what i was looking for. first video watched. to the point, no bla bla .

[johnc]

Not true at 3:40, but solved: clicking No to migrate system did not work for me. It stilled cloned all files and partitions, but the cloned drive would not boot. I had to go back and re-clone and click Yes to migrate system to get it to boot. The other key was to boot the first time with the new drive installed and the old drive not connected (don't restart with the old drive installed and the new drive connected via USB). This method worked for me..

[rhinoboo]

worked for me too, other providers used to be free, so brought me to this.. thanks man!

[cracknfix]

This software worked while other paid/free/freemium software failed for me. While they focus on eye candy UI and making their software look as pretty as possible, the functionality just isn't up to par with dev's that actually care about the product and distribute it with passion and for free. Doesn't have to look pretty, just needs to work, DiskGenius is the TOOL to USE!

[faniejeremiah]

Came across this after 4hours of struggling, Thanks for this.

[KrishnanandSinghGeek]

You saved me. After watching other videos which led me to paid softwares finally I landed upon this video. Thanks a ton.

[gustavovm]

A relative's laptop had a mech drive of about 480gigs which was struggling so I got a ssd for it but it was a bit smaller, like 450gigs, but the actual space taken on the HDD was less than 100 gb. Tried the method described in the video but the target drive ended up corrupted and did not boot. Then tried again but with the Migrate OS option instead of Clone, also opted for windows pe method for the process instead of hot migration, the copy rate was much faster outside of Windows. It worked.

[nagesharas]

I have a laptop with 1 TB HDD, in which the Windows 11 partition is 150 GB.
The laptop has a free slot for a 256 GB SSD.

I would like to install an SSD in this internal slot, and then migrate the Windows 11 OS along with all apps (such as browsers, LibreOffice, image editors, video players, video editors, etc) to the SSD.

In other words, at 3:32, I would like to select "Yes".

After the migration, Windows 11 and all my apps should run from the SSD instead of HDD.
(I intend to merge the erstwhile Windows partition on my HDD with the other partition, and use the full 1 TB for data.)

Is this possible with DiskGenius?

[generalcommentor]

I followed the video exactly, but my cloned drive throws an error after replacing:

Error Code:

solution: @3:30 the instructions say NOT to "System Migrate". However, without migrating the system, your new drive is not bootable.

[jerzykaczmarczyk]

THANK YOU MY BROTHER FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY AND ANOTHER FAMILY!!!

[davionwest]

Glad i found this after 3 other video attemps for this walk through thx

[standtallvets]

Great video. The only thing I can think of is make sure the small boot partition on the cloned disk is marked active, which disk genius can also do. When I first tried it the primary partition was marked active for some reason. Didn't notice that, so the new disk would not boot.

[vrgo_]

if i choose "YES" when you said it just move "system partition" option B, is it the same as choose option B in Minitool Partition. I asked from both vids, i really need an answer, cause i just want to move Windows 10 from HDD to SSD. 1 more thing that i wondered is System Partition the same with Windows

[TTAK]

Thank you
All other tutorials mention apps that are now paid, this tool is free and worked fine