SSD Cloning

[techarmyhd]

I've tried cloning my old hdd to an ssd many times for my mom's laptop. When I am able to boot into windows it "prepares my desktop" and there is a blank desktop. I am able to start explorer.exe but i can't do anything from there. I think that the recovery partition letter got switched or something during cloning put im not sure. (this was an hp laptop that had a recovery parition and 2? other partitions besides windows 7). BTW the last cloning thing i used was macrium reflect, and have tried acronis 2015 and some others.

[dantayy]

I use clonezilla bootable cloner, works everytime but you need 2 sata ports

To clone to a HDD in windows use the EaseUS Cloner, make sure you clone ALL partitions for both methods

[techarmyhd]

i'll try that rn @Ernest_L

[Enderman]

The proper way of moving an OS:

http://www.howtogeek.com/224342/how-to-clean-install-windows-10/

[techarmyhd]

Just now, Enderman said:

The proper way of moving an OS:

http://www.howtogeek.com/224342/how-to-clean-install-windows-10/

i know, i know. this is for my mother though and see doesn't really want to have to reinstall everything

 

[Enderman]

Just now, techarmyhd said:

i know, i know. this is for my mother though and see doesn't really want to have to reinstall everything

 

She doesn't have to, you do it for her.

All you have to do is just install a couple programs and move the files back after clean installing.

I doubt she uses dozens of programs that take up many GBs each and take hours to install.

[techarmyhd]

Just now, Enderman said:

She doesn't have to, you do it for her.

All you have to do is just install a couple programs and move the files back after clean installing.

I doubt she uses dozens of programs that take up many GBs each and take hours to install.

Might as well at this point (i did think about doing this earlier). now that i think about it it shouldn't take that long, thanks!