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Hi friends, I have 2 exact 512GB NVME hard drives and 2 exact 2TB mechanical hard drives. I've planned my system in this way so I could clone the whole each drive to its twin drive, for backup purpose in case the first one fails. This should include the C drive with the system files should make the target drive bootable in case again the first HD with the system files gets corrupted or something. So I am looking for a software that will let me mirror/clone those hard drives to their twin hard drives. I'd also like to mirror the disks on a certain time daily or once a week, in this way I think I won't mirror viruses or bad files etc', if something will go bad with my PC I'll just boot from the other HD and I'm back in the game. I've done it in the past and it has saved me on windows 7 and a software which is called "alwaysync" which is now "goodsync". but I'm not sure it could do what I want anymore and even if it does it's an annual payment which I don't like.. I have no problem paying a one time payment.. Is there a way to do this through windows? Do you think I could use robocopy and windows Task Scheduler? If anyone knows of software to recommend, I'd be happy to know Thanks so much in advance! Roy.

Hey, everyone! My old SSD (Mushkin) has a Reallocated Sector Count of 38 and Reallocated Event Count of 86 (confirmed with HD Tune Pro, HD Sentinel, and AIDA64 while CrystalDiskInfo says "all good"). That's why I bought a brand new Samsung 870 EVO 1TB. Inside the 870's box, I found a small booklet containing info about Samsung Data Migration and Samsung Magician. I didn't know that I can clone my old SSD to the new one with the data migration tool. I installed these 2 apps and I was about to start the process but I asked myself: Will this process also clone the Reallocated Sector Count and Reallocated Event Count? The Data Migration tool software has some limitations, one of them is regarding damaged disks. Can we say that Bad Sectors = Reallocated Sector Count/Reallocated Event Count? Let me know what you think.

Hello all, I recently bought a PSY CS900 1TB so I could have more storage on my PC. I plugged the PSY and assigned it to drive D. I installed Acronis and wanted a backup or so I thought. I left the cloning run for 2 hours and came back and now my PC won't even start. Is my PC dead and is there any way to retrieve my drive ? Please help with any input. Thanks !

Hi guys, I purchased a new 2TB NVME SSD to replace the 525GB one that is currently in the PC. I've tried Clonezilla, Acronis 2014 (I have a license for that version) and even the free trial of Macrium Reflect and they all do the same thing. When I swap the drive in the PC acts like it's going to boot but sits with the spinning dots. Then it'll reboot once or twice then do automatic repair but not be able to fix anything. The drive shows up in the BIOS just fine and shows in the first boot priority slot. The motherboard is a Gigabyte Z270N-Gaming 5. The old drive is a Crucial 525GB M.2 and the new one is a PNY XLR8 2TB NVME. The board does show the new drive under the NVME section. It seems something isn't getting copied or setup properly during the cloning process regardless of software. I am using a USB 3.0 NVME device to do the cloning as I only have a single m.2 on the board. Any ideas?

Might be a stupid question, but hey that's how we learn. I just had a thought can you clone an OS drive into folder that can then be uploaded to the Web, which can be backed up and shared? Currently I use Macrium Reflect for cloning. TIA

Hello, currently windows is on a m2 nvme ssd 3.0 but that's occupying a 4.0 slot. I am buying a new 4.0 SSD nvme I want to transfer windows from the 3.0 SSD to the 4.0 SSD Then I want to install the 4.0 SSD in the slot that the 3.0 ssd currently occupy And the 3.0 SSD will be mounted in an nvme-pcie adapter into a pcie free slot can it be done easily, or should I just save myself some headaches and wipe everything and do a clean install

As the title suggests I work in a company that uses an old windows 2000 Chinese PC that contains irreplaceable data that are nowhere else to be found or backed up (that's a fault from our side I know). The old HDD is currently working and we are looking to clone it sector by sector believing that if something happens to the old the cloned HDD will just need to be plugged in and will be working fine (the harware of the pc is supposed to be tethered software inside that's why we need the secteor by sector method). We would like to avoid installing anything on the old HDD as much as possible cause the software that is currently running doesn't like any new software. Thanks in advance for any help.

Hi i have a server with 3 sas hard drive in raid 1, I want to switch to 3 ssd’s in raid 1 but I need to use the old operating system and all the files, is there a professional software that permit to clone the sas raid to an hard drive and then restore all the files and the operating system in the new ssd’s array? thank you

I am currently learning how to use GitHub. So far I have seen how to create branches and issue pull requests etc. and I am now looking at how to fork repos. My question is, what is the intended way to use GitHub? Say I want to contribute to a project. Do I fork it to my account, clone it on my pc, work on it and when I'm done commit and push the changes to my account repo and create a pull request to the original repo? I am also having trouble pushing changes from my pc to my GitHub account using Git Bash. I was able to do it with the Desktop app, but I still want to know how to do it with Git Bash. In an attempt to push the changes with Git Bash I wrote "git push", and Git Bash got stuck like in the pic attached. For future reference, how do I unstuck Git Bash?

Hey, guys. We have some older systems at work that run some of our processes. The computers are all XP service pack 2 and 3 and their hardware from that era as well. I'd *like* to clone them to a virtual machine on a new computer, in lue of hardware failure. However, I haven't found a good way to do so, largely due to drivers. How should I tackle this issue? Any help would be great. I'd like to build plug and play backups in case of a failure. Thanks a bunch

So I'm trying to clean my wife's ssd to a bigger drive since she is running out of space, so I decided to go with Macrium Reflect Free Version. I used it before on my computer to be able do the same thing only it was a m.2 I was upgrading too. So I do the same procedure as I did before but for some reason, I keep getting a start up error that Windows 10 produces and idk why I'm getting it. I'll go through the steps I take below. 1. I installed the program, and I attached my new ssd to my machine of course. The 1st is the main drive (old ssd). The 2nd is my HDD with games installed on it only, and the 3rd is the new SSD. 2. I click on clone this disk, to get a new window 3. I then drag both partitions down to the new ssd. The 1st then the 2nd. I then selected 2 and clicked float right then selected 1 and clicked on fill space, so that I gain the extra room on the ssd. 4. I then select next then finish and let the cloning process start which will take a while. Then I checked my hard drive and it's completely cloned over to the new drive. So this is the part where it gets complicated. I turned my computer, and then to check if it boots up, I selected the new drive (kingston) and it looks like it booted up just fine. So I decided to detach the old drive, and see if it'll boot up. I even went to the bios to see if it would boot up from that drive first. The weird thing is that I had "Boot up from UEFI" or Kingston, which I found strange. So I boot it up and it gives me a start up error. I'm baffled by this and would like some help trying to solve it. I included images to help as well including the system specs.

Hi I have 2 SSDs and one of them is boot drive. Boot drive SSD is of 1TB and 2nd drive is 500G (empty) Boot drive has one folder with ~450G data so I want to clone Boot SSD to 2nd SSD drive by excluding that one big folder. After cloning, 2nd drive should be bootable and exactly same as 1st drive (without 450G folder). Is it possible? I dont have a backup device to keep that 450GB data elsewhere. Please advise, many thanks in advance!

I have a HP 15t-dy100 laptop with an Intel i5-1035G1, 16gb of ram. The current storage is an Intel Optane+256GB SSD and I am trying to upgrade to a Crucial P5 Plus 1tb, I’m having some issues. The laptop will not recognize the new ssd at boot or in the bios. I used Marcium Reflect to clone Windows 11 and the data is there. The Crucial drive is set to GPT. Suggestions, please. Thanks.

A few days ago, I got a new 1TB HDD. I had been experiencing some issues for a couple weeks so I decided to format my boot drive which is a 240GB SSD. I share this pc with my two siblings and we all have our own user files which we don't want to lose, so I cloned the SSD onto the HDD and after I made sure everything was there I formatted and installed windows on it. I now have 2 bootable drives that I need to either unplug one or swap SATA cables to determine which one I boot into. And when I try to access the HDD user files when booted from the SSD it loads for a long time and nothing happens, so I booted from the HDD and copied the user files first directly into the user files on the new windows, and after that I tried copying straight to the SSD and still the same issue. When I boot to the SSD after copying, I don't see the files I copied. They're simply gone. If anyone has any idea how I can fix this or get around it please let me know ASAP. The files take forever to copy then it's all gone like I've done nothing. Edit: another issue that I forgot to mention is that the PC won't shut down properly sometimes, the system is off and everything but the machine itself isn't. Solutions for this are really appreciated too PC specs: (very old ik) Core i7 2nd gen Nvidia GTX 1050Ti from MSI 8GB DDR3 ram 240GB SSD (forgot the brand) 1TB WD purple HDD The PC itself was a Lenovo thinkstation but and these are the changes made it to it (and a different power supply but idk what that is either)

So, I have an HP Spectre 15 (2019) with a 500gb Intel Optane SSD in it right now (in the only M.2 slot, so it's my everything drive). I want to upgrade the storage to 1tb and I have a WD Black Sn750 SSD that I got to use. I'm looking into cloning my og drive (I'm going to get an external SSD enclosure to put the new one in for the process and for my old drive to act as extra storage) so I don't need to reinstall everything windows/program wise, but when I was at Best Buy the guy I talked to said they cant clone from Intel Optane. From what I found about regular cloning it seems pretty straightforward so is there anything else special I need to do to make it successful with Optane? Any other general help would be much appreciated, this is my first time trying something like this! ($200 for someone else to do it felt steep lol) Thanks!!

hello guys so a week ago i got a wd m.2 1tb to upgrade my current system ssd (128g kingston ssd ) i tried cloning my current ssd but it didn't work i don't know why i tried to clone it using AOMEI , macrium both of them didn't work for me . but i think it's because my system reserved partition is in my other hdd . here's a screen shot of my partitions as you can see C is the drive that i want to clone and D ,E is my extra hard drives so guys what is your thoughts on this and what options do i have ?

I just cloned my OS over from a patriot burst SATA ssd to a Sabrent rocket 4.0 ssd using Acronis cloning software. I was able to boot from the new ssd just fine but I keep reading that if you boot with the old source drive it could brick your drives due to there being two versions of windows. I would like to clear the old source drive and just use it to store games.

Hi all, I just put together a new computer with just about all new parts (except for RAM for the time being as the new RAM is backordered). Below are PCPartPicker links to my old and new builds. Old (https://pcpartpicker.com/list/ZdbRzN) New (https://pcpartpicker.com/list/FBq3gt) In my old build, I had a 970 Evo m.2, which was my boot drive, and a 4TB Seagate, which was my storage drive. Last night, I used Macrium Reflect Free to clone my Storage drive to one of my 2TB Mushkin drives, and my boot drive to the other. I also have an ADATA drive, which I threw in my new system because it was just laying around, and previously was my boot drive for my old system, before I got the 970 Evo. With all three drives installed, I booted up my PC and was immediately taken to the BIOS because no boot drive was detected, which is odd because I had two drives with Windows 10 installed on them, installed in the computer, I also tried uninstalling the ADATA and just using the other two m.2 drives and still no boot drive was detected. In the BIOS, neither of my m.2 drives were showing up either. I fixed this by updating my board to the latest BIOS from MSI's website. Now all three drives are detected, but no boot drive. I then created a fresh boot SSD using my old computer, which still works, and installed a fresh install of Windows 10 onto the ADATA drive, which works and I'm using now. Last night, I plugged in my old m.2 (970 Evo) via a USB adapter, and tried cloning the files onto the Mushkin drive, that I would like to be my boot drive, using EaseUS Todo Backup. I got the same result. It's not recognized as a boot drive, and neither is the 970 Evo that's connected via USB. When I install the 970 Evo into my old computer, though, it still is recognized as a boot drive. This leads me to believe that there is likely some sort of hardware or software setting difference between my old computer and my new computer that my old drive is recognized as a boot drive on my old computer and not as a boot drive on my new computer, and my cloned drive isn't recognized for that same reason. I would like to test the cloned m.2 as a boot device on my old computer, but since it's a cloned drive, I expect it to work exactly the same as the 970 Evo, boot on the old machine and not on the new. The reason I don't test this is because of the case I'm building in. The Dan Case is a Micro ITX case, and uninstalling my m.2 drives would require me to uninstall my motherboard, uninstall my PSU, and uninstall my CPU cooler. I'm willing to do this, but only if I believe that it's worth it, and I don't believe that testing the m.2 on my old system is, at this time. I believe that the issue probably has something to do with the difference between my old and new motherboards, or the difference between my old and new CPUs. Does anyone have any insight into changes that have been made between 2nd gen and 4th gen Ryzen that may cause this discrepancy? I really would like to keep my current Windows install rather than starting from scratch. Thank you! Edit: Added Disk Management screenshot Disk 0 - ADATA (Current boot disk) Disk 1 - Mushkin (Would like to be boot disk) Disk 2 - Mushkin (Storage disk) Disk 3 - 970 Evo (Old boot disk) Edit 2 (Solution): I ended up just using a fresh install of windows and transferring the files I wanted to keep from the 970 Evo, via an m.2 USB adapter.

Hello everyone, I've recently installed a new 1tb Sabrent NVME SSD into my PC. I've cloned windows and all my stuff from my 500GB Samsung 860 EVO to my new SSD using Macrium Reflect. When I go into the BIOS and set the new Sabrent SSD as the fist device to use in the priority bar and try to boot it gives me the error of "reboot and select proper boot device" The only thing that works is if I put the "UEFI Hard Disk:Windows Boot Manager" as the first one in the priority bar. Thanks.

Hey all! So I am working on cloning a drive using this sabrent 2 bay hard drive adapter. It has an offline clone option (which I am using at this time), it has been going at it for almost 4 days at the time of writing this. My question is, if I was to turn it off and try using a clone tool off of my pc would it damage the drive that I am trying to clone? Asking because it has loads of really important files from years ago. I don't mind doing a full clean of the new drive and removing any corrupted files if there are any. Its just that I really don't think that a drive that is running off of sata going at the lowest of 100 MB/s is going to take this long. Thanks all!

I recently bought a cloner and a replacement Seagate Momentus Thin 320gb to replace in an old Lenovo laptop. I setup the clone in a Sabrent clone dock, but for some reason each time I connect it and try to run Macrium it crashes down. Its the first time I've done this before and I've already used two laptops and the same problem occurs in both. I tried opening the disk manager and the computers also tends to crash in some way. Any advice and help?

I recently bought a cloner and a replacement Seagate Momentus Thin 320gb to replace in an old Lenovo laptop. I setup the clone in a Sabrent clone dock, but for some reason each time I connect it and try to run Macrium it crashes down. Its the first time I've done this before and I've already used two laptops and the same problem occurs in both. I tried opening the disk manager and the computers also tends to crash in some way. Any advice and help?

Hello, I recently got a 2TB Samsung M.2 which I'm running Windows on a WD Blue 1TB SSD M.2. Mainly the Samsung one is faster and has a larger capacity and so I tried cloning my windows to the 2tb one and it will not show up as a bootable drive. Anyways what's even more weird is that the windows partitions have made it's way on to my 500GB ssd I have for games. Should I just reinstall windows or is there another option I can do here to make it clone to the 2TB ssd? I'm currently trying to use Macrium for this.

I want to Clone my Windows 10 Computer's 256 GB SSD Onto A New 300 GB Partition on a new 2 TB SSD. I Don't Want The Cloned 300 GB partition on the 2 TB SSD Part To Be Bootable, But Bootable In The Future If I Choose To Later. Is this Clone from SSD to partition on another SSD possible to do? If So, What Parameters Exactly Should The 300 GB Partition Have? Do I format this new partition on the 2 TB SSD special like NFTS, FAT, GPT? Other things special? What are the step-by-step directions to do this clone the right way? Which Software Is Best To Clone the SSD to the Partition That is Free Or Nearly Free? Thanks a lot, you can't know how much, but trust me….

Dear everyone, so i messed up my cloning SSD m.2 as the title mentioned. what I wanted to do is that clone my C drive to another disk the crucial p5 plus. and so this happend in the first picture as shown this is the current state and i would like to say that i deleted the clone on the OS but not the other partition because they are locked for me to delete. i used the cloning software O&O disk image and the software is good and did the right thing it just i am not experianced. so i would like to do is add the extra space to my C drive on the extra unallocated space but somehow that not possible. this is from my laptop lenovo legion y720 there is some propritary software from lenovo that i like to have it all of them in to these partition in the origial disk 1 to disk 2 but i just want to get a bigger space to my 118 GB to 463 GB as the origianl is almost full. is there any way to solve this? would like to hear some suggestion. i have also used the the easu use parition manager but sadly they just gave me how it will look like as a prevview but no actual work to be done.