Drive cloning tool

[owencrispy]

Switching a 480GB ssd out for a new, 1TB ssd instead in my pc. Which is the best tool to straight up clone the old drive to the new one?

 

So i can just unplug the old, and plug the new one in its place. Cheers!

[Jae Tee]

I use Acronis. And while it is 1 of the best it's not free. 

[SpaceGhostC2C]

I don't know what's the best, but Macrium Reflect has worked every time for me.

[Moonzy]

i use aomei backupper

[owencrispy]

9 hours ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

I don't know what's the best, but Macrium Reflect has worked every time for me.

Will i be able to clone the drive onto the new so it just works?

 

Like the 480gb is also the boot drive so i just want to copy the entire thing, plug and play

[SpaceGhostC2C]

4 hours ago, owencrispy said:

Will i be able to clone the drive onto the new so it just works?

 

Like the 480gb is also the boot drive so i just want to copy the entire thing, plug and play

I used it for exactly that. Just make sure you clone the entire drive and not just one partition.

Most of the times I did it in a separate desktop, so the drive I was cloning wasn't the OS drive for that computer (it was the OS drive of a different computer). But the first time I used it, I used it to clone an 2.5'' HDD to an mSATA SSD fin a laptop that was booting from said HDD. I don't remember if cloning nad changng boot order was enough, if I had to further reboot once without the HDD, or if I needed one more step through recovery tools to "repair boot loader" or something like that (something coming from cloning a live OS, then trying to boot without ever shutting down from the cloned installation), before putting the 2.5'' back in. It was a long time ago, so things I actually did and things I read about and was prepared for blur a little  

Either way it was super simple.