How To Clone Your Windows Boot Drive With Macrium Reflect - Easy and Free Software!

Copying your Windows operating system to a new SSD or storage device is easier than ever thanks to Macrium Reflect. In this guide I go over how to do this on the Evolve III Maestro Laptop, but it will work for any Windows based PC.

Update: It seems a few features have been stripped from the free version after I made this video. I now recommend using Clonezilla or Rescuezilla for cloning drives. I'm planning to make a video showing how to use these in several weeks.

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[owenhansen]

Thank you! It took 7 hours but it worked. Beforehand, I tried moving my OS to an SSD using Multitool Partition Wizard 10 and transferring the OS required it to restart the computer mid-progress which caused it to fail/freeze the process. The program you used here worked perfectly for me. Highly recommend it to anyone who has a finicky BIOS

[keithnoneya]

UPDATE: The New Macrium Reflect 8 Home version 8.0.7175. [UEFI] "MAY" require you to check or cycle an option "BOX" on the bottom right of the drive you wish to clone called "Copy selected partitions when I click 'Next'" in order for the "Copy Partitions" tab to be selectable. If you cycle that box the option to "Shrink or extend to fill the target disk" should become available in the "Copy Partitions" tab. If "Copy Partitions" option doesn't become selectable you'll still be able to make a clone, but only of the EXACT hard drive with the EXACT partition sizes. However on a positive note, the unused part of the new drive you can still use "Disk Manager" to letter the unused partition for that part of the drive and use it as a separate drive. Kinda like you used to have to do with large drives using FAT 32. Thanks for the video Bytes. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya

[PCPAyLOAD]

I downloaded this program months ago and was worried I screw something up so never used it. THANK YOU for this tutorial! I went from booting off an old SATA SSD to a gen 4 NVME. Near instant boot now.

[DimKanGr]

Tip: don't format your old drive if not necessary. You may need it for backup if anything goes wrong with the cloned disk.

[fauxgrace]

I watched a few vids and everyone else made it incredibly complicated. You didn't. Thank you! Thank you again!

[DarkNeosX]

Straight to the point, rather than listening to someone for 20:00 minutes.

[pete]

cloned a 250gb ssd to a 2tb ssd. works great thanks

[benedictmanriza]

As of Dec. 2022, It's completely working and most important it is free!

Thank you so much for this!

[barbioxdogg]

Thanks man, it works. My PC finished cloning around 13 minutes 🙂

[SystemSalvation]

FAST, easy and straight to the point! Thanks bro.👍

[CamoCrabby]

After watching your vid, I went ahead and bought a 240GB drive from Amazon. Just finished the drive clone per your video. Thank you very much, and great job!

[holycowza]

Was worried about trying to switch to boot off the nvme drive but this made it crazy easy. Nice work

[patlen]

why is your voice so satisfying to listen to, i can't even describe it

[dickdomain]

Very good video. For once someone spoke slowly and clear with good detail for the 1st timers.

[Skreamies]

Exactly what I needed! Thank you for the talk through to the entire process, now to order my new SSD and throw everything over to it :)

[simicantstandyabits]

Used this guide for a laptop and this was flawless. Thanks.

[pratyushbehere]

Thanks for the help, it did take 2 hrs. but got completed without an issue.

[metro]

THANK YOU SM BRO!!! Everything boots so quick. I used the free trial of Macrium 8 and it worked perfect. It didnt show in BIOS but i just unplugged my old hard drive and it immediately booted my New SSD. Its so good. Subscribed and Liked. You a G!

[TheThrill]

thanks, upgraded my gaming pc and used the old drive for school.

[sleepydoctor]

One thing i would change about this video, is to not format your old drive just yet. Test that everything REALLY works, whether by disabling the original drive in bootmenu/BIOS, or physically removing it.

My cloned drive worked temporarily then blue screen, and when i tried to restart it, it went into bootloop. I had disabled my original drive, so i had to go into bios to reenable it, except it wasnt responding to f2. Managed to get in after several attempts and reenabled my original drive BIOS.