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If you are careful to make sure you select the correct source and destination drives it should be fine. Make sure you are cloning the old HDD to the new SSD, not the other way around or you'll overwrite the old drive with the (empty) contents of the new drive.

 

The only other issues would be if for some reason the new drive is not marked as active or bootable (which is easily fixable).

 

I do this all the time, beats re-installing and configuring Windows from scratch in terms of time and effort.

 

The last part of the video is optional. It is just clearing out the old drive so you can use it for something else (or as @Dedayog said, making sure the old drive containing the original Windows doesn't get booted from by mistake.)

 

If you take the old drive out of the system before booting, you can just skip that last step. That way if something does go wrong  you still have the original drive in tact if you need to attempt the clone again.

 

So either leave the old drive out of the laptop until you are confident that everything went well, or go into the BIOS boot menu of the laptop and set it to boot off the new drive. If all is well, then you can wipe the old drive using your PC or laptop or whatever.

 

Generally when you clone a drive, you want the destination drive to be blank/unallocated and the cloning software will take care of it for you. If the new drive is bigger than the old drive, do not do a "sector-by-sector" clone or you will end up with a  Windows partition the same size as the old drive, and then unallocated space for any space beyond the size of the old drive.

 

 

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Hey guys, so I want to replace my dad's laptop HHD to an SSD without reinstalling windows like in this video (basically using MiniTool Partition Wizard to do it). However, instead of using the cable to connect to the laptop, I am planning to connect both the HHD and SSD to my pc, and then do it (then just basically connect the SSD back to the laptop). Questions:
1. I'm not sure if there're any reasons for this to not work as I also have an m.2 drive connect to my pc.

2. I'm not sure if there will be any problem with my dad having to reinstall window.

3. I'm not sure what's the last part of the video is for (3:22).

    *I'm basically just not sure if there're any issues at all.

 

Thank you so much for helping, I really appreciate it.

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Yes, you're just cloning the HDD to the SSD. Making an exact copy, down to the boot registry.

 

The part at 3:22 is deleting the partitions of the old HDD, so Windows won't boot off it by accident.  It's the same as formatting it basically.

 

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If you are careful to make sure you select the correct source and destination drives it should be fine. Make sure you are cloning the old HDD to the new SSD, not the other way around or you'll overwrite the old drive with the (empty) contents of the new drive.

 

The only other issues would be if for some reason the new drive is not marked as active or bootable (which is easily fixable).

 

I do this all the time, beats re-installing and configuring Windows from scratch in terms of time and effort.

 

The last part of the video is optional. It is just clearing out the old drive so you can use it for something else (or as @Dedayog said, making sure the old drive containing the original Windows doesn't get booted from by mistake.)

 

If you take the old drive out of the system before booting, you can just skip that last step. That way if something does go wrong  you still have the original drive in tact if you need to attempt the clone again.

 

So either leave the old drive out of the laptop until you are confident that everything went well, or go into the BIOS boot menu of the laptop and set it to boot off the new drive. If all is well, then you can wipe the old drive using your PC or laptop or whatever.

 

Generally when you clone a drive, you want the destination drive to be blank/unallocated and the cloning software will take care of it for you. If the new drive is bigger than the old drive, do not do a "sector-by-sector" clone or you will end up with a  Windows partition the same size as the old drive, and then unallocated space for any space beyond the size of the old drive.

 

 

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9 minutes ago, aramini said:

If you are careful to make sure you select the correct source and destination drives it should be fine. Make sure you are cloning the old HDD to the new SSD, not the other way around or you'll overwrite the old drive with the (empty) contents of the new drive.

 

The only other issues would be if for some reason the new drive is not marked as active or bootable (which is easily fixable).

 

I do this all the time, beats re-installing and configuring Windows from scratch in terms of time and effort.

 

The last part of the video isnoptional. It is just clearing out the old drive so you can use it for something else (or as @Dedayog said, making sure the old drive containin Windows doesn't get booted from by mistake.) If you take the old drive out of the system before booting, you can just skip that last step. That waybif something does go wrong  you still have the original drive in tact if you need to attempt the clone again.

 

Generally when you clone a drive, you want the destination drive to be blank/unallocated and the cloning software will take care of it for you. If the new drive is bigger than the old drive, do not do a "sector-by-sector" clone or you will end up with a  Windows partition the same size as the old drive, and then unallocated space for any space beyond the size of the old drive.

 

 

ok thank you so much 🙂

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