How To Clone Laptop Hard Drive To New SSD

How to clone your laptop hard drive to new SSD Western Digital, using Acronis Cloning Software.

MiniTool Partition Wizard $59
Free Edition Does Not allow cloning (use too)

AOMEI Free Cloning Software:

EaseUS Disk Copy Pro $20

Acronis Unrestricted Version $39

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samsung data migration software:

Crucial cloning software (Acronis for crucial)

Seagate Disc Wizard Cloning software:

ADATA Cloning software (Acronis for ADATA)

Corsair Cloning software:

WD Cloning software (Acronis for WD)

Kingston Cloning software (Acronis for Kingston)

USB to 2.5 inch SATA Adapter:

USB to 3.5 or 2.5 inch Sata Adapter:

USB Type C to SATA Adapter:

USB 3.0 to m.2 M-Key NVME Adapter:

USB 3.0 to m.2 B-Key SATA Adapter:

[gajonlin]

The best video on this subject in youtube. Succinct and straight to the point. Talks about key peripheral aspects as well. i.e as to why the brand new disk does not show up in 'This PC' page. Talks about different cloning softwares as well with recommendations.

[rayscrafield]

Excellent! Well done. Even this old man of 79 can understand it. Now, it's my turn to try it on my Toshiba laptop. Thanks for a well done video.

[sweetypie]

Great video. Thanks for all the information on the cloning software programs and SATA adapters in the description box.

[gregfaris]

Good video - Thank You!
It's worth noting at 4:00 that using the switch chkdsk /r instead of chkdsk /f will giive a more thorough scan (scanning for bad disk sectors as well).
Also note that neither will run at all while you are using ther drive - you must schedule the check for the next time the drive boots.

[arclaudia]

I just finished cloning a new SSD for a 2014 HP Pavilion laptop that had only 60g. Neither Acronis or MiniTool Partition Wizard worked for me. This was the second computer I tried Acronis on that didn't work. I was finally successful using the AOMEI Backupper. It was very easy. At first it booted up slowly, but now works as expected. It cloned Windows 10

[redagetach]

Thanks. I like it. Others use a nuisance background music that takes away the attention and disturbs your ear and disrupt the voice of the instructors instruction. thanks, I like it.

[GetRealwithMike]

I bought the cable and answered the questions then cloned my HDD. Perfect the first time. Thanks.

[hunterjoy]

Very nicely explained, got my Western Digital hard drive cloned without any issues from within Windows, got AOMEI Backupper from your description. One thing I would note that there are some of the USB adaptors that come with the power input and a power adaptor that must be used even in the case of the 2.5 inch SATA Drive otherwise Windows will not see the attached USB adaptor.

[MrRichands]

I thank you for simplifying what seemed to be difficult. Acronis was odd in that it took me to support for 2016 Version. Once I realized that and exited back to 2021 program, all was well. I cloned a 128gb ssd to 2tb ssd. Works great.

[frozenhouse]

I've been working at a body shop for a bit now and extra tips I learned was if you're painting the door, it's better to take off the mirror and belt molding (the trim at the bottom of the window) for a better paint job in the end. The mirror can get in the way, and if you're unlucky, the clear coat could stick in that gap between the door and the belt molding.

[differentdrummer]

Very solid video - thank you. I just took delivery of a WD Blue 500GB SSD and I'll be watching this again before installation.

[johnr]

Thanks!!!! The narration helped, and no dumb background music 👍👍

[TheMotogiro]

Per your instructions, it was an easy task to clone and upgrade to a larger nvme drive. Thank you!

[tsptl]

Thank you so much for this! I was able to clone and swap out the hard drive on my Lenovo laptop and everything looks good so far! I went from 500GB to 2TB! What difference! Thanks again!

[mark]

I just finished cloning a new SSD for a 2014 HP Pavilion laptop that had only 60g. Neither the free versions of Acronis or MiniTool Partition Wizard worked for me. This was the second computer I tried Acronis (free version) on that didn't work. I was finally successful using the Eassos Partition Guru. I was able to go through on-line instructions making sure the drive would be bootable. It was very easy. At first it booted up slowly, but now works as expected. It cloned Windows 8.1 (original drive too small for Windows 10), Microsoft Office, Chrome, .. without any software reinstall or needing product keys. I had collected all the keys just in case, but they were not needed because the clone worked as intended. I share this because I spent almost a day trying different methods, software... until I came upon Eassos. Hopefully there are no secret scripts that copy personal info... ;)

[dalefrancis]

Good, finally a proper video on the subject matter. Well done!

[farmboy]

Thank you! Very straight forward. Many other sites make it harder than is needed for my situation.

[akshaydusane]

Thank you so much Sir for educating us about the cloning process!😊
Today, I'll be upgrading my old Dell laptop by installing WD Blue SSD and thus watching your video to prepare myself for the process. Your video is very helpful to me! Thank you once again!
Have a pleasant day ahead!❤

Regards,
Akshay
Mumbai, India

[richardmhain]

Thanks, this is helpful. I now have more courage to go thru this, hopefully within 2024 😅
Great job, cheers!

[Vicky-zduv]

I have no clues why Acronis failed with WD disk, and I used AOMEI backupper it worked well, I think AOMEI tool has better compatibility.