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Which technique is best for a newbie cloning HDD to SSD?
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<blockquote data-quote="Stopspying" data-source="post: 896145" data-attributes="member: 69368"><p>@[USER=73194]South Park[/USER] - Thanks for saving me from asking this question, I have a HDD that I need to replace with a SSD in the next week or so and I have not yet decided what software to use.</p><p></p><p>The manufacturer provides Acronis True Image HD, disk migration utility, I've used this and other Acronis software before, successfully. However I use Macrium Reflect for image files and saving me from Microsoft update disasters and have great faith in their products, but I've never transferred the OS partition from HDD to SSD with it, I'm inclined to try it for this purpose.</p><p></p><p>As for when to clone the OS; it is for a PC which has 2 drive bays, I plan to remove the second HDD temporarily, insert the SSD in its place and then clone the OS to it, remove the HDD it is to replace and put the secondary HDD back into that drive housing.</p><p></p><p>As for resizing partitions I've done this a lot, the PC I need to change the drives in has AOMEI Partition Assistant and Paragon Hard Disk Manager installed; I've used both previously to manage partitions successfully and easily before. I've also used among other softwares in the past - EASEUS Partition Master, Paragon Partition Manager and Partition Magic. All worked fine, they're all inntuitive in my view. Of course Windows 10 provides its own partition management tool in Disk Management, I've long preferred to use alternatives because they usually offer more options and the GUI seems much more basic to me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stopspying, post: 896145, member: 69368"] @[USER=73194]South Park[/USER] - Thanks for saving me from asking this question, I have a HDD that I need to replace with a SSD in the next week or so and I have not yet decided what software to use. The manufacturer provides Acronis True Image HD, disk migration utility, I've used this and other Acronis software before, successfully. However I use Macrium Reflect for image files and saving me from Microsoft update disasters and have great faith in their products, but I've never transferred the OS partition from HDD to SSD with it, I'm inclined to try it for this purpose. As for when to clone the OS; it is for a PC which has 2 drive bays, I plan to remove the second HDD temporarily, insert the SSD in its place and then clone the OS to it, remove the HDD it is to replace and put the secondary HDD back into that drive housing. As for resizing partitions I've done this a lot, the PC I need to change the drives in has AOMEI Partition Assistant and Paragon Hard Disk Manager installed; I've used both previously to manage partitions successfully and easily before. I've also used among other softwares in the past - EASEUS Partition Master, Paragon Partition Manager and Partition Magic. All worked fine, they're all inntuitive in my view. Of course Windows 10 provides its own partition management tool in Disk Management, I've long preferred to use alternatives because they usually offer more options and the GUI seems much more basic to me. [SIZE=3][B][/B][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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