How to Clone Your Drive For Free - Dont lose your data in Windows 10 or 11

In How to Clone Your Drive For Free - Don't lose your data in 2022, I show you how to clone an M.2 SSD Drive to an SSD, I show you how to clone an SSD to an M.2 SSD all for free in Windows 10 and 11. Don't use with Bitlocker & Disk Encryption technology like Bitlocker.

0:00 Intro
1:46 Showing both drives in Disk Management
2:03 How to download Macrium Reflect Free
2:59 How to Install Macrium Reflect 8
3:27 How to clone a smaller drive to a large one with Macrium Reflect 8
4:10 How to change partition sizes in Macrium Reflect
5:32 How fast will my drive clone
6:43 How to change your cloned drive to be your primary drive
7:55 How to change a drive letter
9:07 How to erase a drive
10:38 How to how to initialize a drive
11:42 How to clone a larger drive to a smaller one with Macrium Reflect 8
14:06 Discussing the entire process of cloning drives with Macrium Reflect in the video

I show you how to clone a smaller drive into a larger drive, then I show you how to clone a larger drive into a smaller drive. We use the home version of Macrium Reflect v8 for cloning purposes, the Reflect Free version. This can be use for how to clone a hard drive, clone HDD to SSD, how to clone HDD to SSD, clone hard drive, clone hard drive to SSD then clone SSD so how to clone hard drive and how to clone windows 10 to SSD. but I am using 11, it will show you How To Migrate Windows To New SSD or NVMe.

While the free version allows you to clone and schedule clones, the paid version allows you to backup files and folders or your entire PC, MBR or GPT disks as well. Aside from being able to recover partitions and entire disks, you can mount those images in Windows explorer for easy single file recovery. So if you backed up your PC, and you just want to recover a single file, you don't have to restore your entire PC for it, you can just pull that one file out.

The full version, allows you to do full backups, Incremental and differential images as well, live or scheduled. You are allowed to actually boot your backup up in a virtual machine at the same time. If you are running a tech shop, you can restore images to dissimilar hardware using Macrium ReDeploy in just about any version of windows. Macrium Reflect Clone SSD, does an amazing job and yes it will show you how to clone M.2 SSD to new M.2 SSD and will help you migrate HDD to SSD your hard disk to SSD.

During this process, you notice I clone the entire drive, not portions of it, because each portion is as important as the next. One of the partitions is the Windows Boot Manager, also known as the UEFI partition, the other is your C drive and all the Data on it and the finally the Recovery Partition. The recovery partition is where windows stores save points and portions to allow you to repair issues. This will copy your drive and will copy partitions.

BitLocker Drive Encryption is a data protection feature that integrates with the operating system and addresses the threats of data theft or exposure from lost, stolen, or inappropriately decommissioned computers but we do go over How to transfer Windows from SSD to NVMe M2 for free

If you receive a 0xc000000e or any errors, you can use your windows 10 or 11 boot media, boot off of it, click repair (to repair the BCD), click troubleshoot, advanced options, and "command prompt" then do the following commands, pressing Enter after each of them

bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /scanos
bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /rebuildbcd
exit


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In How to Clone Your Drive For Free - Don't lose your data in 2022, I show you how to clone an M.2 SSD Drive to an SSD, I show you how to clone an SSD to an M.2 SSD all for free in Windows 10 and 11. Don't use with Bitlocker & Disk Encryption technology like Bitlocker.

[NoTheRobot]

As of November 16, 2022, this is still working flawlessly. Thank you for the in-depth tutorial!

[lspec]

i watched so many videos trying to figure out how to clone my hard drive into my new SSD for free, but all of them lead nowhere until i discovered your channel!! you're a blessing ❤thank you very much! and keep up the great work you're awesome!

[dragonknight]

This video was a huge help. I just recently got an SSD internal drive and getting everything cloned, set to boot, and clearing out the old drive was a breeze thanks to you.

[Birdie_]

Sifted through so many videos for the past year and this is the only vid that simplified it, spoke clearly, and didn't make the program sound sketchy.

[Darkblazer]

Prior to finding your video I had been struggling for over an hour trying "free" apps that when you were about to start the cloning they directed you to their Sales page, I was about to pay just to be done and then found you, clear instructions, clear process, you cover every possible option, I'm so thankful for your help!

[julianzacconievas]

Mate, thank you a lot for this. I had no idea that software existed and it's been very handy. Just a few things to add to the video for newer folk:
- If you bought a brand new drive to replace your old one, you will need to initialise it BEFORE you use it for cloning. Otherwise your BIOS will fail to recognise it as a bootable drive even if it can read it perfectly while you are booting from another drive. This video shows you how to easily initialise your brand new drive in the "Initialising a drive" section in the second half of the video. It's a common mistake to forget this, so before you mess with your RAID/Legacy/UEFI BIOS config, make sure your drive is adequately initialised. Initialising your drive basically creates a tiny piece of information your BIOS needs in order to know that the drive can be used for booting.
- The software owners have removed the free licence and now offer a free 30 day trial of their software. Likely to be enough for most people just trying to upgrade or replace a drive who are watching this.

[bv]

Man, I rarely comment. Seeing your subscribers count got me tears for what you have offered. You deserve millions.. It will happen soon. Keep doing such value contents that are "really useful" to people. Comments show here that you have touched thousands of hearts 😊

[whiskey]

The best tutorial out there if you don’t have an external drive lying around to install your OS to your new M.2 SSD. This worked like a charm for me all throughout! Thank you so much

[iandawkins]

Brilliant tutorial, I have seen lots of Macrium tutorials and you are the first to explain it clearly and the bonus is the easy way you wipe the old drive of partitions Windows will not delete. Thanks 👍👍

[prasanna.saikia]

Watched too many Videos and this one is the best out there.
Special thanks for the Disk cleaning part with proper guidance and demonstrations which was extremely helpful.
Thank You ☺️

[johng]

Hey Iggy, i followed this guide to upgrade from my 256 pcie3 m.2 boot drive to a 1tb pcie4.
I had to remove my other m.2 storage to do the swap and was a bit worried it might mess up with the drive letters but it all went flawless. In particular, that tip about getting the software to expand the new partition is what made the difference, thank you. No-one else covers that step and then you have to rely on seperate hardware as you can't just expand that partition in disk manager.

I used WD770 black, seems like a really good storage. Doubled my speed from the old integral M2!

Also can confirm that in Jan-23 the Macrium free software still works.

Just sent another subscriber your way for your pc build videos 👍

[Yes-xzdd]

Awesome video, still works as of December 30 2022 and flawlessly.

[djlodestoneswe]

It was easy to follow the instructions and very good pedagogy to understand how the program works. Thanks

[masonintrater]

As of December 8 2022 this works fantastic, follow step by step and nothing will go wrong. I never comment on videos but you deserve all the praise for saving me a headache of losing any data. And setting up new boot drive with ease! Can’t thank you enough man

[christopheror]

Amazing video, covered all the possible cases and straight to the point, it was hilarious to see the mic behind you, Cheers!

[MrDarkmuffin]

I was looking at so many tutorials and this was the best one .you explained it start to finish answered any questions great quality thank you

[edison]

Thank you for showing me how to clean the disk in cmd. I Ran across this partitioning problem in the past and am so happy I have a simple way to fix it.

[richardslepcik]

Very detailed explanation, my clone to larger ssd just running. Well done and thank you for huge help!

[busteractual]

100% helpful step-by-step video. Was looking for alt to AOMEI since they removed the cloning functionality in the free version and found Macrium thanks to you!