Clone a drive

[AMDPRO]

I'm looking to clone my entire SSD (with windows) onto an HDD. How should I do this, and will I have windows issues?

[Catsrules]

By Clone you mean to copy the data exactly from 1 drive to another, so you can basically boot off of either of them. 

 

There is a bunch of software that can do this,

Clonezilla is a free program that will work. it does a good job, however it can be a bit "scary" to use. Only because it is all text based. But it isn't as scary as it sounds it is mostly just text menus that you walk through press 5 for this, press 1 for this ect.. 

 

Acronis is also a good program how it does cost money. But it is pretty easy to use, I believe you can do it all from windows if I remember correctly. 

 

If the drives are different sizes, you might need to extend or shrink the drive partition. 

[AMDPRO]

29 minutes ago, Catsrules said:

By Clone you mean to copy the data exactly from 1 drive to another, so you can basically boot off of either of them. 

 

There is a bunch of software that can do this,

Clonezilla is a free program that will work. it does a good job, however it can be a bit "scary" to use. Only because it is all text based. But it isn't as scary as it sounds it is mostly just text menus that you walk through press 5 for this, press 1 for this ect.. 

 

Acronis is also a good program how it does cost money. But it is pretty easy to use, I believe you can do it all from windows if I remember correctly. 

 

If the drives are different sizes, you might need to extend or shrink the drive partition. 

ok thanks, im moving from a small drive to a larger one

[Catsrules]

13 minutes ago, AMDPRO said:

ok thanks, im moving from a small drive to a larger one

Oh cool that is much easier then going the other way.  You shouldn't have any problems cloning the drive.
 

One thing you will need to know is when your done cloning and are booting off the larger drive you will need to extend the partition in disk management. Because the partition will still be the same size as what it was originally. The larger drive will just have a bunch of unused space. So you just need to extend it and it will expand the partition to completely fill the drive.

[AMDPRO]

BTW is bitwit ultra extra ontop of floatplane?

[Catsrules]

48 minutes ago, AMDPRO said:

BTW is bitwit ultra extra ontop of floatplane?

Yes it is separate product. I have them both so it was $3 for LTT videos and $3 for Bitwit, so $6 Total. But you don't need to buy both if you don't want to you can pick only Bitwit or only LTT.
For example I could drop the LTT videos and only get Bitwit Ultra for $3 a month.

Think of Floatplane like Patron. You pay for each person/organization you want to follow. It is just a little bit strange because we know Floatplane and LTT are the same people. Be we really should see them as two separate entities. Floatplane is the video hosting company and LTT is using them to to host their videos.   

[AMDPRO]

33 minutes ago, Catsrules said:

Yes it is separate product. I have them both so it was $3 for LTT videos and $3 for Bitwit, so $6 Total. But you don't need to buy both if you don't want to you can pick only Bitwit or only LTT.
For example I could drop the LTT videos and only get Bitwit Ultra for $3 a month.

Think of Floatplane like Patron. You pay for each person/organization you want to follow. It is just a little bit strange because we know Floatplane and LTT are the same people. Be we really should see them as two separate entities. Floatplane is the video hosting company and LTT is using them to to host their videos.   

Ok, I thought that a floatplane membership got you everything. Or will once they upgrade